Can I clone data from a SSD to a new SSD without the OS

Sure.

First, forget about the word "clone." "Cloning" normally refers to transferring everything on a drive to another drive.Simply think about transferring/copying.

There are many ways to do this. See your other replies and let me also mention what to me are two of the easiest ways:

1. Network the two computers together and simply copy from the old one to the new one.
2. Copy the data from the old computer to external media (thumb drives, external hard drive, CDs, DVDs, etc) and then copy from the external media to the new computer.

Which media you need to use depend on how much data you have to transfer.

If the data you want to transfer is all in sub-folders in the same folder, you can just copy the folder and all the subfolders you want to transfer will be transferred. If the data's subfolders are not all in the same folder, you will have to transfer the folders separately.

And if you keep the old computer, at least for a while, you can later copy over any data files you may have missed.

Palcouk's suggestion of using the Windows backup program (or any third-party backup program) will work, but too me it's a little more complicated than is necessary. Simply copying is much easier.

...dashdotdot is concerned with possible junk files, but I wouldn't be. If you have junk files that weren't a problem before, they won't be a problem after copying. And you can always delete any junk files, whether before or after copying .

And yes, you will have to reinstall any programs that don't come with Windows.

Thank you all for the excellent advice. I was hoping I could accomplish all of this with a batch-type approach, but I can see that the bottom line is a manual transfer. I was hoping that could be accomplished with a "clone" type operation by highlighting selected folders and then executing the transfer. It appears this cannot be accomplished. It looks like the old fashion way of copy and transfer will be the best. I had thought of that but had hoped that modern cloning software allowed for the designation of files (thus excluding the OS). Best regards to all.

There's no perfect method.

You could just simply copy the entire C:\Users\user-folder-to-copy to the new computer but it will probably contain unnecessary junk by doing it in one lazy effort.

Any applications that store info elsewhere would also not be copied over if there was anything there you wanted then you would have to manually find it and copy it.

Backup applications, etc work the same way. Either its super easy and lazy with "dirt" or you manually pick and choose for "clean".

Use win backup for docs to an external then in win back up on the new, restore