Restoring Norton Ghost System Image on New SSD Drive Without Losing Licenses & Programs

Hi
I have a question. With Norton Ghost, I took a picture of the C system partition (system with drivers and several programs). In the event of a crash or other patches, I always restore the system state within a few minutes to the time I took this image.
I am thinking of the SSD. However, I have some original graphics programs for which I have already sent the license codes, so I would not like to do the system again.
Will I be able to restore my windows with Ghost by inserting a new SSD drive and setting up the C partition of the same size from which I made this image?
Will it not be possible due to the fact that they were different disks (capacity, company, and with a different partition layout)?
I would prefer to avoid a clean installation as long as possible because of the loss of those programs for which I have already licensed.

I have restored the system on various disks many times, but in the same hardware configuration (except for the disk). All programs worked as they should. I didn't do it on SSD.
And you won't find out how you can't try it yourself. After all, recovering a system from an image does not destroy it.

Just like a colleague above, I did it from disk to another disk, even better, 16 computers in the IT room, all identical, on one installation of the system with drivers and then a clone for the rest and worked. But I haven't tried HDD to SSD, it seems to me that there should be no problem but it's just a presumption.
As for the keys of these programs, try to play with the KeyFinder program.

Well, it doesn't destroy him, but I don't have it physically yet and I have no way to try it. I just wanted to order and before that check whether this procedure makes sense. From what you write, you have succeeded so there is a chance that it works. I was just thinking about the partition layout. Image file if I made image only of the system partition contains information only about this partition? Or also information from the MBR about the partition table? The point is that the SSD will be much smaller than the disk I had so far, and therefore I will not be able to make as many partitions as I had before or assign them such a size. That's why I was wondering if it would work because I don't know what information the image contains besides the said system,

It is important that the capacity of the target disk is larger than the cloned partition. The number of partitions created does not matter, the program will copy wherever you choose. There can be only one partition on the whole new disk.

The problem would arise if you made a copy of the disk and not the partition. For partitions, there should be no problem that this is a smaller capacity disk.

I still have a question. I came across the cool EaseUS Todo Backup Free program.
They recommend it on the Crucial website, it even has the option of optimizing data for SSD. There is of course the option to clone the entire disk. I was interested in the option of creating a bootable pendrive and in the event of a system failure (similar to how I did a ghost) pen boot and restore the image. Pen is created immediately from the program, you do not need to combine like in a guest. I just have a question about creating a system partition image. In the option to create an image of this partition, should you select, besides the C system partition, also the 100MB system partition that 7-m made during installation? In the ghetto I only marked C and here it is also possible to select the 100MB.

Vytautas_YT wrote:

The problem would arise if you made a copy of the disk and not the partition. For partitions, there should be no problem that this is a smaller capacity disk.

And what if the source partition and image (e.g. created in W8 systemically) have a system installed on the GPT partition - HDD-0 and I want to transfer the MBR type to SSD

-fortaigne - do you want to create and move an image or clone the system partition?

no difference, I did many times alternately from SSD to HDD and vice versa, no problem, I use a receipt. The size can sometimes be even smaller, if the data takes, e.g. 30gb and the partition has 50, then you will calmly clone it into a free space of 40gb