Clone hdd with windows 8 to ssd

HI, I've purchased a hp envy phoenix h8-1580d with windows 8 pre-installed on 25 july. Since then I've tried many ways to clone the system disk to an INTEL 330 120gb SSD but failed. At last, I decided to clean install the windows 7 Pro to the SSD, but the computer could not boot from the DVD, FAILED AGAIN. I would be very grateful if any expert here could provide any solution to solve this issue. My sincere thank in advance.
Anyway, I did contact the hp technical support and they took 2 days to work out a solution and they failed too.

Finally suceeded in cloning the HDD to SSD with EaseUS Todo Backup Free 6.0.

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