I'm planning to clone only the small system partition of a 750G disk, and restoring it to an empty 500G disk. There's a large data partition on the 750G disk I don't care about. The question is, how ...

I'm in the process of replacing the HDD of my partner's laptop with an SDD. I've made the clone but it will be a few more weeks before she'll allow me to open the laptop and swap a few things out, so ...