Windows 7 Help Moving To A Different Hard Drive

My Windows 7 OS is currently on a 56 GB SSD. I believe I would like to run it and everything on my computer from either of my 458 GB regular hard drives.

The reason for doing this is because I do not have enough space to operate or make updates to Windows 7 on my SSD. Six months ago, I sought out and received some excellent help in attempting to get the amount of used memory of the SSD down in the thread below.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/index.php?threads/hard-drive-space-problems.296225/

In the end, we decided that it couldn't be done. Each time I freed up space, it would somehow be gobbled up and I couldn't make an update to Windows 7. Grad school started again, I became very busy and had to put off fixing this problem. Now I am off for the summer and have time to address the issues again.

I would just now like to move the OS to a different drive and be able to operate the computer without space restraints. Some questions:

1. Is this the best idea? Is there any other solution that wouldn't involve purchasing expensive hardware?

2. Is there a step by step list/guide that I should follow? Similar FAQ's and guides have been extremely helpful here in the past.

3. How do I do this?

Thank you very much in advance for any help you might be able to give. You all have been incredible in the past.

 

Have a look at HDClone Free Edition.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/hdclone_free_edition.html

 

If you feel like this PC is worth a $100 investment, would 256 GB be sufficient?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W02CZ2241

Samsung SSDs come with their own cloning software...

 

Is there a good guide on how to use this?

So far I've done the following:

So I've installed the software. I open it. I click on Drive under Cloning. I select Source drive to be the SSD in question, then click next. I select the Target drive to be the 1 TB HD and click next. I click next again after options and accepting the defaults. Afterwards, I get a pop-up that asks to Adjust Partitions. I am unsure what to do here and I click skip adjustments.

A pop to Start Copying process appears. I click Start Copying

 

That is a good idea and it is nice to know the prices have fallen. I'll give it a try after I try it on the regular drive.

 

Have a look over here.
https://www.miray.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=3

Usually, when you copy a smaller capacity drive to a larger capacity drive, the latter will have unallocated space. You can then use a free partitioning program to fix that.