Questions on using Macrium Reflect v 7.2 to clone HDD

I have a 906GB HDD with 215GB used. I have purchased a Samsung 500GB SSD to clone the HDD partitions. After reading the v 7.2 manual cloning instructions some questions have me needing assistance.
1. Will I have to modify the size of this HDD partition: will cloning only copy the 215GB being used - or will it try to copy the entire 906GB causing issues? My current HDD has three partitions a Dell Utility 32 MB;
a Recovery NTFS Active 24.6 GB and the NTFS Primary 906GB - 215 used. I plan to copy all three.
2. V 7.2 offers 5 cloning options - not sure which to select in the provided check boxes:
>Intelligent sector copy (copies only file system sectors/clusters that are in use.)
>Verify File System (ensures that there are no file system errors transferred to the clone)
>Rapid Delta Clone (copies only file system differences between the clone source and the target)
>Enable SSD Trim (enables the clone target to optimize the disk and enhanced SSD performance
and longevity) -wondering if this would be necessary with a new SSD?
>Forensic Sector Copy (copies every sector from the source to the target disk partition)

Would be grateful for any suggestions/advice.

Mary

 

Mary,

Laptop or desktop?

 

Brian using Dell XPS 8700 desktop with Win 7 Pro.

 

Ah, Mary and Frank. Here is the original thread...

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/questions-on-installing-an-ssd-replacement-drive.408723/

If you copy the 25 GB Recovery partition to the SSD you will have wasted 25 GB of SSD space because it will no longer be able to "recover". It needs a 1 TB drive for that. But it does contain the booting files so what have you done about moving them to the OS partition?

The booting files are only 20 MB.

 

Mary and Frank,

You started this discussion four months ago and I can't see any progress. Are you planning to do anything?