Download clonezilla to a bootable USB using tuxboot.

You don't have to format them, filling them with data comes later.

In diskmgmt.msc, add matching partitions as found in your source disk.

In diskmgmt.msc, make sure to initialize your SSD to the appropriate boot style (MBR or GPT).You are done once your source partition is <= the size of the destination SSD. Just keep trying to shrink in diskmgmt.msc and going to event viewer to the details of the most recent 'defrag' event to figure out what file is getting in the way of your shrinking mission. You will likely have to turn off system restore and the pagefile/hibernation to avoid their otherwise-unmoveable files that are plopped physically in the middle of the partition.

Using start->run->diskmgmt.msc, you have to repeatedly try to shrink the partition. First, shrinking the existing partitions.Fortunately, they hadn't used much of the 500GB partitions.I was tasked with seamlessly moving the windows install to the new 240GB SSD.The disks they were running on were using MBR boot style. Their PCs both had 500GB system partitions with Windows 10 on them.My parents bought themselves SSDs for christmas as an upgrade for.I found that windows wasn't smart enough to just boot up after transferring to a smaller SSD (probably since I couldn`t simply do a sector-by-sector copy). The previous answer didn't include all the bits I needed, so I'm contributing my own.

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