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I would also like to recommend Clonezilla. For many years I used to rely on Norton Ghost, literally hundreds of times. I still think it’s a great utility but two-three years ago I stopped buying it and have used Clonezilla. It’s free, reliable, and well supported. I’ve had no problems using it ATA to SATA, or transferring an ATA drive to another drive using an USB adapter. No problems cloning drives with multiple operating systems either — all the various partitions and boot record (doesn’t matter if it’s Win Boot Mnger, NTLDR, Grub, Lilo, etc.) will transfer from one drive to another without any issues.

Ghost has better granular control over resizing individual partitions on-the-fly (as in selectively expanding various partitions when going from a smaller drive to a much bigger one), and as far as I know (please correct me if I’m wrong), Clonezilla doesn’t currently have support for the newer 4k formatting in the latest Western Digital drives, but I’d be surprised if the Clonezilla developers aren’t working on that issue.