Windows 10: Moving W10 to a smaller drive

I just purchased a Refurbished Dell from a MS Authorized Refurbisher via Amazon. It arrived with W10 on a 2t 3.5" HDD. I intend to install 2 additional 2t "Data Drives" in a raid 1 Mirrored config.To make room I want to clone the current 2T boot drive to a 500 gig 2.5" HDD. Is this possible and what is the best and simplest method to accomplish the "Clone"? Please note that I have not turned this new machine on yet, and W10 is still in the "Preconfigured and setup state".

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W10 macrium mirror to be restored on a smaller drive

1. I assume that you've already created a Rescue Disk. Boot up with it.
2. Click on restore tab and browse for the backup image on the external HD.
3. Select your current Windows drive as destiunation drive.
4. Click on each partition of the destination drive, then click "Delete Existing Partition" until empty as shown:
   
   
   
5. Next click on first partition (400MB) drag and drop to the destination, do the same for 300MB.
   NOTE: You might have an extra MSR partition which was not shown with disk management. If so, do the same as for 400MB and 300MB.
6. Now, drag and drop C drive from source then click on "Restored Partition Properties" as shown. Enter New partiiton size. In your case, would be 150GB.
   
   
   
7. Drag and drop next partition and repeat step 6, enter 150GB.
8. Drag and Drop the last partition then click on Maximum size so it would take the rest.
   Final layout should look like this: 400MB, 300MB, 150GB Cdrive, 150GB, ~130G
9. Click OK ->Next->Finish
10. Once done, just to make sure it will boot. Click on "Fix Windows Boot Problems" and follow the screen.
11. Reboot.

NOTE: The screens above are from my disk and shown as an example.

 

Alienware hard drive upgrade using W10

I understand there is a USB file that can be downloaded which will allow you to restore your old (smaller hard drive info and W10) onto a new larger drive. I have an Alienware laptop with factory 200GB and I'm installing a 1 TB drive. I would like to know
if there is a descriptive process in text available to walk through the steps?

Moved from: Windows / Gaming on Windows 10

 

W10 macrium mirror to be restored on a smaller drive




Here is the disk layout image. I hope that this is what was wanted.