Switching HD's

[LTW]

What's the best way to cloan/copy everything from my current HD to a new one? (the old one is on its last legs) I run XP pro. If possible I would also like to transfer the OS.
Thanks
Bill

 

[davidgcet]

norton ghost is good, but there are several others out there just as good or better. it takes all of about 10-15 mins to do, including initial setup.

 

[poltergeisty]

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[Thayne]

If you are going to clone a drive it is way better to have both drives connected to a EIDE or sata port.
I did one thru a USB 2 and it took 27 hours. Connected directly=23 minutes

 

[shaft]

Clonezilla is absolutely the best program to clone/ghost a drive. Its open sourced, and I've used it many times. Whats easiest is to create an image, then image that to your new drive. It took me 27 mins to image a 200 gig drive via USB and 13 to put the image to a new drive.

 

[mike_s104]

There's a few tools on Ultimate Boot CD that will clone.

 

[mike_s104]

Clonezilla is absolutely the best program to clone/ghost a drive. Its open sourced, and I've used it many times. Whats easiest is to create an image, then image that to your new drive. It took me 27 mins to image a 200 gig drive via USB and 13 to put the image to a new drive.

This looks very cool. Thanks.

 

[LTW]

To all who responded. THANKS