Copy HDD to another HDD

yorkshirelad84 · 4 Jan 2010 at 14:44

Can anyone tell me how best to do this?

AbsenceJam · 4 Jan 2010 at 14:46

I assume you mean with the OS on? The clone tool in Acronis True Image.

yorkshirelad84 · 4 Jan 2010 at 14:48

AbsenceJam said:
I assume you mean with the OS on? The clone tool in Acronis True Image.

how much does it cost? or is there a free utility for doing this?

UKDTweak · 4 Jan 2010 at 14:53

If you want free... boot from a DOS disk (FDD or USB) then at the command prompt type:

XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /s /e /c /k /r /h

C:\ being the drive to copy...

D:\ being the letter of the drive you want to copy too.

AbsenceJam · 4 Jan 2010 at 15:08

yorkshirelad84 said:
how much does it cost? or is there a free utility for doing this?

I think the trial will let you clone. Otherwise CloneZilla is said to be good.

UKDTweak, that won't work for an OS partition.

UKDTweak · 4 Jan 2010 at 15:13

I have used that very same command to copy my XP install to a new drive, all i had to do then was run Fdisk and set the new drive and active and bootable?