How Can I Clone Hard Drive?

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  1. #1
    Hey,

    I am upgrading my E: drive which is a 190GB IDE drive and I want to replace it with a 500GB Sata drive.

    I want to know how I can clone what was on the IDE drive on to the Sata drive without having to re-insall any programs or anything.

    I want to make a straight swap so other than Windows realising I have a new hard disk, I don't need to do anything it just all works.

    Any healp on this one guys?
     
    gobbly2100, Apr 12, 2008 IP
  2. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    Use Norton Ghost, I think that should be a cheap and convenient method.
     
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    kinggomez Active Member

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    i am also having the same problem, finding how to swap my drive like that
     
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    gauravgrt Peon

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    I also recommend you to use norton ghost, if you want it then hit me a pm, will email you.
     
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    dugi Active Member

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    you guys are right
    norton ghost is the best program for tasks like that
     
    dugi, Apr 12, 2008 IP
  6. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    There are also open source versions of Norton Ghost, just in case you do not have the licensed copy, can't remember the name but I guess you can google for it.
     
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    Use Norton Ghost, first you can make image file(s) by processing "local disk to image", then do "disk from image" to your new sata!
     
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  8. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    lachrymologist Active Member

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    or use acronis true image
     
    lachrymologist, Apr 13, 2008 IP
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    Norton Ghost is cheap and not that hard
     
    peterh35, Apr 16, 2008 IP
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    I always use Norton Ghost to clone and make a backup of my harddisk. never used any other program I still using the 2002 DOS version and i think it's better than windows version.
     
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    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    Yeap DOS version is definitely better, when I try cloning an NTFS Windows 2000 system, the Windows version of Norton Ghost keep giving me pagefile error whereas once I change to DOS version, everything runs perfect.


     
    wisdomtool, Apr 16, 2008 IP