1:1 hard drive copy

byron_hinson · 22 Jan 2009 at 10:21

I want to do a complete copy of my current hard drive to my new 1tb drive and was wondering what program people use? Is it simple to do? And will I be able to boot up fine from the brand new drive once I have done the copy. I am using vista 64bit

RVF · 22 Jan 2009 at 10:40

Ghost

byron_hinson · 22 Jan 2009 at 10:41

Soz thought I was in the hard drive forum! Can anyone move it!

bledd · 22 Jan 2009 at 10:51

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17967123

acronis true image

deadite66 · 22 Jan 2009 at 11:10

http://clonezilla.org/ freeware opensource

byron_hinson · 22 Jan 2009 at 11:59

If I attached the hard drive externally could I just drag all my folders and files from the old drive to the new one and still boot from it

deadite66 · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:01

no, even a drive copy may not work.
at least for me when i copied xp and vista to a new drive xp worked but vista needed a reinstall.

bledd · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:03

read my post

madman045 · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:05

As Bledd has said, cant go wrong with Acronis True Image

errata · 22 Jan 2009 at 13:57

Your drive makers allmost certainly have a program to clone a disc for free.

Drive utilites also tend to come free on magazine cover discs.

You do need to be careful about attaching the 2 drives at the same time after cloning as confusion can arise as to which is the boot disc etc.

Attach both, clone disc, detach old disc and repalce new disc on the same sata cable to help maximise the chances of it working.

you may alos have to make a new partition or expand the cloned on on your new disc as the clone will be the same size as the old one if its a true clone

Rhys · 22 Jan 2009 at 14:27

paragon hard drive manager is also pretty good

Chronictank · 22 Jan 2009 at 14:28

deadite66 said:
http://clonezilla.org/ freeware opensource

another vote for clonezilla faster than both ghost and acronis

eXor · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:08

dd

Chronictank said:
another vote for clonezilla faster than both ghost and acronis

For a 1:1 copy? I thought they'd all be the same speed?

Memphis · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:11

bledd. said:
read his post

rickyt · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:21

Rhys said:
paragon hard drive manager is also pretty good

I agree , Paragon gave out 2 of there programs for free a couple of years ago , one was a Backup program and the other was cloning program .Both are excellent and I can recommend the hard drive manager , I dont think it's called that but it makes a perfect copy from one drive to the other in very quick time .

byron_hinson · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:33

Used Acronis Migrate Easy worked perfectly.

Chronictank · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:40

eXor said:
dd

For a 1:1 copy? I thought they'd all be the same speed?

I cant say i have tried it with 1:1 copies but it most certainly is for image making.
A 20gb partition took 28 mins with ghost, 10 mins with clonezilla (which uses ntfsclone)

willy · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:46

Another vote for Acronis True Image here.

When i built my system, i made 2 partition in my hdd, 1 for OS and the other one for data, programs, etc. I put 50gb for OS and the rest for data. But after i installed Vista 64, noticed that 50gb wasn't enough in the future as when installed games, programs, etc even in my other partition, it still install in OS partition as well. So i had to make exact copy from the data drive partition and put it to my external hdd and join the OS partition and data partition together and then copy the image back after i altered the partition