Easiest way to image one hdd to another?

[richieboy]

I need to image everything from HDD to another, larger capacity HDD, and i was wondering what you guys thought would be the easiest way to do it?

Does Ghost have the ability to copy EVERYTHING from one HDD to a new replacement one? Basically i would prefer to do this than re-install the OS and all of the users apps, data, etc...if i can just create an image from a HDD and copy it directly to another one on the same IDE channel. Can the Ghost boot disk do this?

Are there any other utilities that can do this? Does XCOPY do anything like this?

Many thanks.

 

[richieboy]

I happened to be inquiring about issue relating to this today as well. A freeware prog I found copies everything, so that the copied-to HD will boot up with the OS from the copied-from HD.

the prog is here: http://www.bootitng.com/copywipe.html

I haven't tried it yet, but from the website it looks like a proper utility to me.

This is perfect - if it works

 

[richieboy]

Thanks for all your suggestions guys, CopyWipe did the job...although unfortunately the whole process did'nt go as smoothly as planned and i was having loads of problems with PartionMagic 8 not actually doing any of the merges or resizing of partitions i wanted it to, wasnt a happy chap and had to leave it as more of a bodge job

The CopyWipe part of the job did as it should though - so can recommend that, although it did take a little longer than Ghost has on previous occasions.