Installing SSD in a Macbook with partitioned drive.

I am planning on installing an SSD in my 15" non-retina display Macbook pro. When I first bought the mac I partitioned the hard drive so I could run windows in bootcamp and parallels. If I replace my old HDD with the new SSD and clone it will the SSD also become partitioned and able to boot in either OS?

Check this link to CopyCatX which may be able to duplicate the entire drive. It could be worth contacting them to see if it has the capability to clone Mac and Win simultaneously. Let us know if it can as others can benefit from this information.
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Hi this is alamzeb , i have purchased OS X mountain lion from apple store and installed it on my macbook with the expect ion of making my macbook faster but it become more slow by installing os x , how can i solve this problem
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