Clonezilla

Used Clonezilla before?

Neat app to “clone” a drive to another drive.  - http://clonezilla.org/

I used to use “backups” to do this when swapping out drives etc but came across a problem where I needed to go from a spinning disk to a smaller ssd drive…… clonezilla to the rescue using the ICDS option in expert mode, more detailed description here - http://www.seanwingert.com/blogs/clonezilla-clone-bigger-smaller-drive-eg-ssd

Worked like a charm.