I'm in the process of replacing the HDD of my partner's laptop with an SDD. I've made the clone but it will be a few more weeks before she'll allow me to open the laptop and swap a few things out, so ...

Although free disk imaging sounds enticing, Clonezilla Live isonly for more advanced users. The program runs off of a Linux LiveCD (or USB flash drive), and it worked perfectly for me. But to beblunt: ...

Clonezilla is a bootable CDROM designed for partition backup and restoration. Unlike SystemRescueCD, Clonezilla Live doesn't contain an array of utilities, rather, it is a single, focused tool.