Cloning Hard-drives?

gawaterman · 3rd November 2009, 3:37 PM

Anyone had any experience or advise on doing this. My root drive is getting on in years and not that big so was thinking of replacing it with a new larger one, but rather than go thru the length exercise of re-installing everything would like to try just moving everything off my C Drive onto a new one. Whats the best software to use or avoid?

Thomas505 · 3rd November 2009, 3:55 PM

Acronis is brilliant if its windows. Used it myself many times with success.

Recharge · 3rd November 2009, 3:58 PM

EASEUS Disk Copy is another good one too.

so too xml drive image.

The Sentinel · 3rd November 2009, 4:04 PM

Clonezilla is open source and relatively easy to use.

I used to use Acronis exclusively have found Clonezilla better in most respects.

FireTech · 3rd November 2009, 4:17 PM

If doing a one off job then Acronis True Image Home 2010 would be an easy option.
It's a free trial but fully functional though only works for 30days.
I recently used it to up-size my HTPC system drive from 500Gb to 1Tb and it worked a treat.
There are user guides available for it too.

Gierke · 3rd November 2009, 7:24 PM

There are 3 dozen apps or tools that will do the job. Acronis or ghost are popular choice - grab hirens boot cd and take your pick.

viggenn · 3rd November 2009, 8:32 PM

i like dd on linux. or ghost for anything else.

MR CHILLED · 4th November 2009, 7:44 AM

Can we have a sticky for cloning and creating images please!? ; )

Jonchilds · 4th November 2009, 8:15 AM

Copywipe - Boots from a CD and does a good job. 100% Free.

FNQer · 6th November 2009, 2:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MR CHILLED

Can we have a sticky for cloning and creating images please!? ; )

seconded - looking for one now, isn't there one here somewhere?

neotheo · 6th November 2009, 3:46 PM

I like partimage - works well for linux, no idea if it will work with windows but its worth a try

Meeprawr · 6th November 2009, 5:41 PM

Slightly off topic

I'm looking to purchase a ssd and I am wondering if it is possible to make an image of my existing seagate sata harddrive, and cloning it onto the ssd. I do not have much data on my primary partition and it would easily fit on a 64/80/128gb ssd

Or are they too different?

scodye · 6th November 2009, 5:49 PM

+1 for Acronis.. had several drives with bad sectors and have cloned perfectly onto drives of the same/larger capacity.

sammy_b0i · 6th November 2009, 5:56 PM

xxclone is free. I used it a few days ago.

kogi · 6th November 2009, 5:57 PM

I've used the free seagate and WD utilitied before but not lately

kogi

3rd November 2009, 3:37 PM	#1
gawaterman Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Adelaide Posts: 179	Cloning Hard-drives? Anyone had any experience or advise on doing this. My root drive is getting on in years and not that big so was thinking of replacing it with a new larger one, but rather than go thru the length exercise of re-installing everything would like to try just moving everything off my C Drive onto a new one. Whats the best software to use or avoid?

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FireTech Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Sunny Sydney Posts: 1,629	If doing a one off job then Acronis True Image Home 2010 would be an easy option. It's a free trial but fully functional though only works for 30days. I recently used it to up-size my HTPC system drive from 500Gb to 1Tb and it worked a treat. There are user guides available for it too.

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4th November 2009, 8:15 AM	#9
Jonchilds Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Perth Posts: 236	Copywipe - Boots from a CD and does a good job. 100% Free.

6th November 2009, 3:46 PM	#11
neotheo Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Darwin, Australia Posts: 189	I like partimage - works well for linux, no idea if it will work with windows but its worth a try

6th November 2009, 5:41 PM	#12
Meeprawr Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 33	Slightly off topic I'm looking to purchase a ssd and I am wondering if it is possible to make an image of my existing seagate sata harddrive, and cloning it onto the ssd. I do not have much data on my primary partition and it would easily fit on a 64/80/128gb ssd Or are they too different?

6th November 2009, 5:49 PM	#13
scodye Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 81	+1 for Acronis.. had several drives with bad sectors and have cloned perfectly onto drives of the same/larger capacity.