Change to SSD

Hi everyone,
I'm planning to change my 320 GB HDD to 240 GB SSD. I know the SSD is smaller than my previous HDD, but I just use it for Windows, I will store my data at external drive.
My problem is how to transfer all partition from HDD also resize into SDD.
My HDD have 4 partition, bold is must transfer to SSD
System_Drv (1.46 GB, System, Active, Primary Partition)
Windows7_OS (111.76 GB, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Parition, 40 GB free space) --> this one I need resize to fit onto SSD
Data (167 GB NTFS, Logical Drive) --> I don't really care about this partition since it will not fit onto SSD
Lenovo_Recovery (17.58 GB, Primary Partition, 5.32 free space) --> I need this partition because this is my original Windows source.
If anyone know how, please help.
Thank you.
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thank you for answer,
but can you more spesific, what clone software is suitable for my requirement, because some is not free, if i have to buy, just don't wanna buy the wrong software.
once again, thank you.

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