OK . . . alternative viewpoint here.
Certainly, back up all your data. You could even clone the HDD to another HDD, if you don't make a regular practice of it, but not necessary.
Defrag the current HDD so that it is "0% fragmented."
If the HDD is configured in "RAID-mode" within BIOS, do a web search on "RAID-mode to AHCI conversion" or phrases with similar meaning. You should find (a) Registry-editing instructions for various types of conversions; these are simple -- about three registry edits and maybe 30 keystrokes. (b) Microsoft's Knowledge-Base, MSDN etc. provide a "Fix-It" page and button to be executed just before "Start->Restart" and BIOS entry to change the drive mode to "AHCI."
Now, simply clone the HDD to the SSD. Parted-Magic is $5; there is Acronis Disk Director 11 as well as Acronis True-Image 2014, which offer in-Windows cloning as well as portable boot-CD creation of a bootable non-Windows program GUI for cloning drives.
Shut down the machine after the clone and remove the HDD. Reboot -- Voila!
Now Mr. Manderson is suggesting you reinstall the OS and programs from scratch. I'd say that could be wisdom for quite a few mainstreamers who get confused about Windows maintenance or who are just totally ignorant of it.
If you do your job throughout the life of a Windows installation, you would have made an effort to clean up the red- and yellow-bang nodes in your event logs. You will find clues and keys to fixing the cause of errors. As you do this, you make sure Volume Shadow Copy service is running and shadow-copies kept and pruned on a daily scheduled basis.
If this is the sort of Windows you can achieve quickly, or which you persistently maintained to be all "blue" but for certain benign yellow (and even red) events in the logs, and if you've got a clean bill-of-health from running SFC /SCANNOW, CHKDSK [with thorough analysis and repair parameters] and maybe drive diagnostics -- then CLONING IS FOR YOU.
After you've cloned an HDD to SSD, it's possible you had to shrink the partition and logical volume to fit the SSD. If your system in AHCI-mode shows an unlabeled "System Reserved" partition of ~ 100MB, the proportional resizing will also affect the size of this stubby partition, when you need to have at least 100MB of space on it. Acronis makes it easy to re-size and shift the position of volumes on a partition, so you might want to adjust the size and position of logical volumes, or you may want to leave unallocated space at the end of a partition for SSD "overprovisioning."
Samsung provides a cloning utility, but the resizing and related features are either limited, or you may have to shrink your system-boot HDD volume before making the clone. I think a lot of this stuff can be done in "Computer Management"->"Disk Management."
Otherwise, do your fresh install marathon after backing up the files, and don't forget those folders here and there you might forget to back up.
The main thing to remember is that Windows 7 SP1 and later will assure that the SSD is properly aligned, or Acronis will guarantee it. So SSD alignment should not be a worry worth opening the Command window.
After you installed your SSD, disable defragmentation for that drive. If you have a Samsung 840 or 850, install the software and decide whether you want Magician to provide RAPID caching. Magician will also recommend any over-provisioning and adjust volume sizes accordingly -- for an unallocated space of about 10%.