Best way to clone a HDD?

[broona]

I'm upgrading my son's storage drive from an ancient 2tb Samsung HDD to a 2tb SSD, he's got games installed on there, what's the easiest way to clone the drive so the game installations will still be recognised by Windows? Thanks.

 

[broona]

Macrium, either straight clone or image backup and restore.

But if you want to be sure partitions align properly for SSD, then a file and folder backup in Macrium of the whole drive, then format the SSD in windows, and then restore the backup to the newly formatted partition.

That's perfect, thank you.