I've cloned hundreds of drives while I worked for two years in the IT department at a large university (30k+ students), and I never had an issue with using Clonezilla or Norton Ghost (which is no longer even supported, but still works perfectly).
If you're moving to a larger drive, just do the above process and then use Gparted to resize the partition. As many warnings as it throws about trashing copies of data, I've never actually seen it happen.
If you're moving to a larger drive, just do the above process and then use Gparted to resize the partition. As many warnings as it throws about trashing copies of data, I've never actually seen it happen.