What the best way to go about replacing the HDD in u410 with an SSD

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I've just been given a U410 for Christmas.  My initial experience with the pc, bearing in mind that I've only had a it a few hours, is that it appears to be quite a good little laptop.  Then again compared to my previous laptops it wouldn't take a lot to beat them.
Anyway what I would like to do is replace the standard 500gb HDD which came with the laptop, with a spare 240gb SSD that I acquired earlier in the year, while keeping the contents / os from the original drive.
My initial plan was to clone the drive to the ssd and then just swap them out.  However this was not to be, as Acronis is not picking up the HDD and Clonezila will not complete the process as the drives are of different sizes.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to tackle what I initially thought was going to be a relatively simple process.
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I hadnt found this but sucessfully completed it with the todo backup utility and a few manual changes. I suppose you could also use the EasyGiG that comes with Cruicial SSD drives for cloning. (I chose a 250GB Cruicial M4)
See this posting for a great description of those partitions:  Making Sense of drive partitions
Here's what I did.
1. First I copied the filed formt he 20GB partition that held all of 1 GB of data over to the WIndows partition, this is a stupid partition that only holds drivers.
2. I removed the stupid partition in the windows disk manager and expanded the Windows partition to use that data as well. You can do this after the clone as well but I didnt want the clone to create that partition.
3. I cloned the the SATA drive to the SSD drive using Todo Backup, it was very quick... Under 1/2 hour.
4. After cloning, the partitions on the SSD did not have the same attributes as the SATA drive did, which caused it to not be able to boot. The windows diskpart utility is your friend here.
5. open a command prompt and run: diskpart (i actually used 2 command prompts side by side for easy reference)
type 'list disk' to show your disks, 'select disk' to give focus to a disk, for mine disk 2 was the SATA drive and disk 3 was the SSD.
type 'list partition' -> 'select partition' to change which partition you are working on (there are 6 or 7) on the SATA.
type 'detail partition' to get the details of the partition you are working on.
6. Now heres how you make the changes, be sure to only make changes on the SSD at this point as the changes are immediate and could cause you problems if you modify the SATA drive you are running from.
get the details of each SATA partition and look for the line called ''Type". You need to note the string next to it that looks like: de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
on the corresponding SSD partition you need to change that value to mathc the SATA value by using the command: set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac (or whatever it was on the source partition)
verify the change with "detail partition" and "list partition",  rinse and repeat for each partition
7. Now swap the HDD's and for me it booted immediately, and significantly faster performance all around. A worthwhile upgrade, even considering the drive space you sacrifice. ( get an external or a NAS to store your big files )
Good luck, no warranty on this procedure, it worked for me, YMMV.