Hard drive cloning

[kevfield]

Hi all need a little help to fully clone my hard drive so if i my HD ever dies i would like to put the back up drive in and off i go again , i have bootit running on both HD's i would like to clone , also would like to save image's on another backup external drive .... any advice will help !!

Thanks kev

[R_J]

I usually use Norton Ghost, but there are others (on the hirens cd), these programs boot from cd/dvd or floppy and do the cloning that way, That way all files will get copied.

[ifred]

Paragon Hard disk manager has never failed me, I have rescued a number of systems with this program.

[dasteph]

i have recently used macrium to clone two ssd drives without any problems.............Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download

[Gruntech]

If you don't mind spending some money I would recommend buying a cloning machine off of ebay. Bought one myself and all I have to do is stick in my HDD and a blank one of same size, press the button and the machine does it all for me! saves a lot of time and effort and reduces the risk of bricking your own HDD with bad cloning software. Hope this helps!