Notes about my first computer build as well as my attempt to put an SSD in my netbook and transfer windows 7 onto it. 

To confuse the matter I am going to try to dual boot with linux, (probably Mint on netbook and Ubuntu on the HDD of my desktop build).  I know there won't be much space, I am only using a 128gb ssd, but I plan on keeping very limited files on the netbook and mostly using cloud storage ie. Drive, Dropbox, Ubuntu One.

I am self taught regarding computer work and know just enough to usually get what I know and what I think I know mixed up.

Netbook I have an SSD on order

I have deleted all the files and programs off of the Windows side that I don't need, done a back up with Crashplan and copied everything else to a backup drive.  

Tonight I am going to do the same with Mint, I think there is a back up option listed somewhere but I have trouble finding things in linux.

I also hope to get a Windows 7 recovery image from torrents (I never have luck with torrents)  I would like to just create one from my Windows, but I can't just send it to USB and cannot burn it do an optical drive since my netbook doesn't have one.  Then I have to get the USB bootable, I have had variable results booting from USB in the past.  So I will see if I can get it to boot before moving on.  I need this to get Windows to boot, from what I have read you cannot just move a disk image on the new drive.

I would just use linux if I could get just a few things working better.  Particularly GSAK, I use my netbook for it's portability when I Geocache and use GSAK a lot, it doesn't work very well with WINE on linux, some distros I cannot get it to install at all.