Clone Windows 10 to smaller SSD, keep recovery partition?

[DMahalko]

Is there a way to retain the hidden recovery partition #3 with Windows 10 UEFI when migrating from a 1 TB mechanical hard drive to a 256 GB SSD? I can do the migration if I shrink main OS partition #2 using Microsoft diskpart and delete the recovery partition before cloning, but of course now the recovery partition is gone.

For unknown reasons Microsoft puts their tiny recovery partition after the main OS partition at the end of the drive space. This also screws up the ability to resize the main OS partition if cloning to a larger drive.

Is there some automated way to automatically reorder the Windows 10 partitions on the source to be arranged like this on the target:

• #1 Boot - same size
• #2 Recovery - same size
• #3 Windows - expand or shrink to fill remaining space to end of drive

[Steven Shiau]

It's always a challenge for Clonezilla to restore the image saved from larger disk to smaller one. However, maybe you can check this:
https://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq#119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq
I suggest you create the partition table on the destination disk first, then use "-k" option in the expert mode:
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/02_Restore_disk_image/advanced/09-advanced-param.php

Steven