Cloning to a smaller drive?

I'm trying to clone to a smaller (GB) drive. The amount of data on the original drive is of course small enough to fit on the clone.
The original drive has: os partition, an HP backup partition, and a 100 mb "system" partition -(don't know if this is an HP thing or a Windows 7 'feature').
When i try to clone the entire disk, Drivebackup reboots and only clones the 100mb system partition.
Trying to clone individual partitions brings up "wizard did not find space where a new copy can be created"
So can DB clone to a smaller drive and if so what am i doing wrong?

wellll - never mind -acronis was able to do it

 

Yes, to avoid invalid geometry on the smaller HD, shrink the source HD first so it is slightly smaller than the target.

If you want to restore an image to a smaller partition /drive - Paragon is unusual as it is able do that.