Cloning a hard drive

[Bman123]

Hey guys I have heard about doing this but I have no clue of how to do it. I am trying to upgrade my rig in sig and build a new one is there any way I can clone my current hard drive and put it in a new rig? If not then oh well if so then great

 

[AfroThunder]

I know for sure that Norton "Ghost" will clone or make an exact copy of a drive. There are other cloning programs available and that is a good thing, because Norton is very expensive. Good luck with your build...

 

[Rifter]

Every brand of hard drive has a tool to do this. I know WD uses a WD branded version of true image. i think seagate does the same with there brand on the true image software.

here is a link to the WD software on the off chance you have a WD drive in that system.

http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en

 

[Blain]

Create and boot from an EaseUS Disk Copy CD...
Make sure the correct drives are selected for "source" and destination".
Source = The HD with data that you want to clone
Destination = The HD that you want to copy that data to.

When it's finished cloning the drive, remove the "source" HD and connect that cable to the "destination" drive.

After cloning the destination drive should have capacity that's not been partitioned or formatted.
You can either make that space a partition by itself or merge that space into the C: partition using something like EaseUS Partition Master.