Last time I had to clone a hard drive, I used a bootable USB drive with a Linux tool on it. I don't remember what it was exactly, but I just installed the extra drive, told it which was the source, which was the destination, and let it do it's thing. Everything worked afterward, including the system recovery tools on the partition.
Pretty painless process overall.
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