Check this guide and learn how to effectively clone your HDD onto a new SSD. Enjoy the fast bootups and quick launch apps from the SSD.

To clone a hard drive or SSD on Windows, download Macrium Reflect Free, connect both drives, and click Clone this drive under the source disk.

Macrium's software allows you to fully clone your SSD or create an image backup for you to save on an external device. There's a free 30-day trial for this software, or you can pay for a subscription.

Macrium bootable disk also has issues cloning disks with bad sectors. If you're getting already errors, but Windows is still usable, then my procedure is to take an image of the disk first, then ...

And finally you didnt show me a single free software other than Macrium Reflect in free addition or as trial that supports smaller to bigger disk clone. In that wikipedia article if you check ...

EaseUS cloning software can migrate the OS from the first SSD to the new one, transfer C drive to a new SSD, and transfer data from one SSD to another with only one slot on a laptop or PC.

How to Clone Your Hard Disk to an SSD Using Clonezilla Clonezilla is free and is OS-independent drive cloning software.