Create new boot disk with existing settings.

Hello.
I am soon going to be installing a SSD to supplement my HDD on my Macbook Pro, I would like to install Mountain Lion on the SSD, I am familiar with how to do this but I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to retain all existing settings and appearance etc. The size of the SSD is 256gb and the HDD is 512gb otherwise I would just use a program to carbon copy it however I have too much information to do that, is there any way of cloning just the OS part of the drive or something similar?
Many thanks
Rob

In theory, yes. You might need to control - click on the item you want to restore which gives you a restore to option. I think I would enter Time Machine from the HDD system you now have installed to minimize the possibility the backup wouldn't recognize the SSD.

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or
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