Free Software to clone a disk

[Tuvoc]

My current boot drive is a Samsung. I have a Hitachi drive (both SATA) that I want to make the boot drive instead, so I need a disk copy program like Norton Ghost or something, but free. Can anyone recommend something ? Sometimes the disk manufacturers provide a utility, but I see nothing on Samsung or Hitachi site. Thanks

 

[Tuvoc]

Looks like a 15 day trial edition of Acronis True Image may do the trick
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/

 

[jbloggs]

You may also wish to look at:

Clonezilla

HDClone

Partition Logic

Or if you have either a Seagate/Maxtor HDD on your system, DiskWizard or MaxBlast will do this, which is basically Acronis True Image 10 with a couple of non-essential features removed.

All free!

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Use any Linux live CD and use the DD command to do a sector-by-sector copy of a disk. It's Free Software in the Richard Stallman sense.

It should take about 20 minutes.

 

[RichL]

Acronis True Image is a great piece of software. Cloned a dying drive with the trial and it worked flawlessly, even allowed me to increase the partition size.

 

[Tuvoc]

Thanks everyone

 

[khushy]

RAID 0 Q . . .

oooooooooops - apologies