I plan on cloning my HDD to a mSATA SSD soon. Oblviously cloning a hard drive leaves the entirely of the file system intact but, I've never cloned a hard drive before so I don't know what to expect. Will all of my programs function on the newly cloned SSD? Including my modded games such as Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim? Installing dozens or hundreds of mods for each game is pretty time consuming, so I'd like to avoid that hassle if at all possible.

That brings me to the question, what is the best, more reliable, cloning software? So far I decided on this: http://www.amazon.com/Apricorn-Notebook-Upgrade-Connection-ASW-USB3-25/dp/B005C983NA/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1GC7JQBUS6DIG&coliid=I1G7IKJ5W1FQQQ but I'm open to suggestions.