I don't understand which options to choose for my(2010 vintage) Lenovo T410 laptop running Windows 10. I'm copying a 256G drive to a new 500G drive. I use less than 180G but like to replace the drive every few years as preventive maintenance.

Should I use HDD raw copy Partitions raw copy? Remove free blocks? Copy and resize? I was inclined to copy and resize but It increases the Lenovo recovery partition which seems like a waste of memory. Some options make 167G of unallocated space which also sounds like a waste although I guess I could use it for a photo drive. Anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.
JDA