Best software to copy/image a hard drive?

by admin on May 31, 2010

I’m planning to expand to a larger hard drive on my PC. I know there are programs like Norton Ghost that let you create images of hard drives… but I’ve read in reviews that it’s buggy… Does anyone have any recommendations from personal experience?

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colanth May 31, 2010 at 1:16 pm

The engine most of those programs use – the Linux dd command. Boot a Linux Live CD and use the dd command. (It works with an image of the disk, so it doesn’t matter what operating system is installed on the disk.) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/learn-the-dd-command-362506/

iam_betterthenu May 31, 2010 at 1:45 pm

acronis true image
works like a charm
is this a laptop or desktop
if it is a desktop, why dont you just install a 2nd hard drive and leave the first one as is

but if you are just wanting to swap out drives
save all your documents/videos/pics and so on burn them to disc using your cd/dvd burner

install the new hard dirve/install windows/now get the cd u just made and install them
good to go

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