Want to do exact clone of hard drive.

[yomama9999]

Am wanting to clone a 320gb ssd to a 250gb hdd. (250gb has enough space for all contents) Have watched multiple video's and done some research but was wondering if anyone has any recommendations on easiest and safes way to do this.

Thanks 

[WhitetailAni]

Before I try to help:
Does the SSD have your OS on it?

[yomama9999]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Before I try to help:
Does the SSD have your OS on it?

Yes and programs 

[WhitetailAni]

Why are you putting your OS on a hard drive instead of an SSD?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

3 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Why are you putting your OS on a hard drive instead of an SSD?

my best guess is redundancy

[tarfeef101]

Using clonezilla has worked very well for me in the past. When using it there's an option to scale partition sizes and update the partition table on the target disk when the two aren't equally sized. Enable that. Should be quite straightforward if you go that route. 

[yomama9999]

both drives will be used in identical machines. by me one will be in my work truck one my home. 

[abc_123]

Macrium Reflect is great and there's a free version that will do what you want.

 

 

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

 

 

Cloning a disk: https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW7/Cloning+a+disk

 

 

[su01]

I really like Paragon Disk Manager 15 but i haven't tried any newer program in 5 years since it does what i need.