easy fastest way to install w10 onto a 2nd drive?

[hddtosdd]

problem: the 'cloning' softwares does not let me 'clone' the hdd to the sdd

question #1: why?

the disks looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/bDw1QSf

- hdd with w10 installed, is activated
- hdd is disk 1
- sdd is disk 0
- did the windows updates

is laptop, nothing really on it yet

dunno which is faster, to do clean install on ssd and do updates again, or just clone

question #2: has anyone done this kind of thing recently?

question #3: are there any good articles or youtubes that tells us what we're suppose to do?

the general sites just says one option is to use the cloning software, but they dont tell explain to us what we're suppose to do
another option seems to be 'system image' but that seems extremely complicated with so many steps

[nil]

Your SSD is smaller than your HDD. The target partition must be the same size or bigger than the source.

This guide might help

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001914.htm

[hddtosdd]

'target partition must be the same size or bigger than the source.'

is that for all cloning softwares or just one?

how could you clone if there's something in the ssd?

like which drive is the os currently running on?

[hddtosdd]

what's on the ssd? is there anything needed for w10 on the ssd right now?

are we able to reinstall with clean install on ssd, and the w10 on the hdd would still work?

[Lisa_maree]

Hi

There is nothing on the SSD at the moment if you want to do a clean install to the ssd then I suggest as others have, you disconnect the 1 TB hard drive until you have the SSD booting ok. There should be no reason you can't copy the the 1 TB to the SSD. You need to select the drives to copy from to not the partitions. Not sure if the free version of Easues partition manager will clone to a smaller drive, I have a paid version and yes it does as well as setting the cluster size and partitioning for the best operation of the SSD. I can't see what brand of SSD you have it could  be better to use the cloning software from the SSD manufactures site.