Exact copy of a hard drive

[tres]

Hello all,

looking to find the easiest way of doing this:

I have Vista installed on a 80gb hard drive, everything's working perfectly but drive is too loud.

I want to copy it over to a 40gb hard drive.
But don't want to re-install everything!

is there a (preferably free) method of copying the drive exactly, so i can then boot from the 40gb and everything working again as if nothing happened?

thank you!

 

[Tomsk]

Go to the website(s) of the drive manufacturers. They have free tools to download that will do this for you.

 

[Burnsy2023]

Acronis True image is awesome for this

Burnsy

 

[bledd]

uninstall the things you don't want first, and use ccleaner slim to remove temp files etc

and disable system restore

now use an acronis true image boot cd to do a 1:1 copy