HDD copy software

Hodge · 13 Mar 2010 at 18:49

My 2 month old Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 64MB hdd has started ticking.
Thinking it is about to fail i'm looking into copying the drive to another. I have never done this before. Will ACRONIS True Image Home 2010 be the software to use?.
I know the purple shirt mob sell it and are open on a Sunday. Or is there any easy to use freeware software.

Hodge · 13 Mar 2010 at 18:55

Thanks for the very fast reply will look at Clonezilla first.

Hodge · 13 Mar 2010 at 18:57

Christ u lot are fast lol. Will need to take a peep at the win7 backup also.

Hodge · 13 Mar 2010 at 19:07

Not on my win7 pc at the moment but will the built in software copy the whole drive to a spare drive or just backup specified files.

Hodge · 13 Mar 2010 at 20:45

robinbredin said:
Why dont you use the free edition of True Acronis from western digital HERE.

Thanks everyone for the input. The free edition did the trick

managed to clone to a 500gb hdd and removed the old hdd.

Now for the ubernoob thing is my pc is still ticking every 1 1/2 sec's.

tested with old 8800 ultra so its not that. disconected the dvd drive still the same.

now looking at the HX850w Corsair psu. Think i had better make post in the correct section. But thanks for all your help.