Copy My Disk didn't work. How to backup win 7 and restore to new drive?

The context here.  I have Windows 7 Home Premium x86 Service Pack 1 on a 500TB drive about 100GB of it is used.

I want to change the drive to a 240GB SSD drive. Ghost 15.0.

 

I tried Copy My Disk to the USB mounted SSD drive.  It took a long time and eventually said it could not complete the copy with error EC8F17B3: Cannot complete copying of (C:\) drive.

--Cannot copy source drive to destination location.

---Bad file record signature.

---Cannot copy source drive to destination location

----Bad file record signature

 

(UMI:V-0-3215-6067)

 

It didn't tell me which file had the problem.

 

I tried shrinking the partition to a size small enough to allow a copy.  Ghost would not let me shrink the partition small enough so I cancelled that.

 

I subsequently just installed the same Windows 7 directly on the SSD and that's where it's at right now.  I don't want to do it this way as I have to reinstall and configure everything.  I want to back up the original ~100GB and restore it onto the SSD completely.

 

What do I need to do?