Using SuperDuper-backup-disk as main disk? Not working for me

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I just backed up my internal harddrive to a new ssd-drive. My plan was to use the old harddrive in the dvd-drive, and place the new ssd where the old harddrive was.

However, backing up with SuperDuper, my new ssd-drive will boot, but my computer is far from identical booting from the ssd-drive. None of my installed applications are in the dock, wifi doesn't work etc.

Any thoughts?
 
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You may not have done a complete backup or "clone" with SuperDuper. Are you using the registered version or the free one?
 
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OWC technicians pretty strongly recommend not cloning to an SSD. Do a clean install of Lion and then use Migration Assistant to copy things over.
 
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Also just in case this is important to you. AFAIK SuperDuper does not clone the recovery partition. Which you probably don't want on the SSD anyway but it is something to keep in mind.
 

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