Cloning a secondary drive

[86 5.0L]

Hi guys, I have a laptop with Windows XP that I want to clone and backup, I can connect the 2.5" drive to my desktop in sig, but was wondering the best way to clone a image to my 1TB WD drive

 

[86 5.0L]

I just remembered I have a serial number for Acronis True Image 10 Personal Edition, when they were free. Gonna try that.

 

[wol-va-rine]

meh, I just cloned my boot drive not two hours ago using clonezilla and am running off the cloned drive right now...free clonezilla...sweet...

 

[86 5.0L]

^ that involves booting off of clonezilla, and IDK if clonezilla lets you choose which HDD to clone to another local HDD

 

[dustout]

another option you may want to consider in the future is ddrescue
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

if you have a live cd that contains it all that is required is a command like the one below
dd_rescue /dev/sda /dev/sdb
to clone one disk to another