Hard drive clone

[renegadez]

I've never done this before.
Can anyone tell me how to clone a hard drive?

I currently have a 160 gig maxtor in my PC
I want to switch it to a 160 gig western digital

So i'm wondering if i can just clone the whole drive so the WD will run windows without having to reinstall

is it possible?

 

[Lazn_Work]

Any number of options out there.

Cheapest/easiest would probably be either WD or Maxtor's utilities that come with their drives. If you did not get a copy with your drive, you can download the WD one here:

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999

instructions for using this utility to transfer partitions here:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc...F90ZXh0PXRyYW5zZmVyIGRhdGE*&p_li=&p_topview=1

==>Lazn

 

[{NcsO}ReichstaG]

I just cloned my SeaGate 120 GB HDD to a RAID 0 set of DiamondMax 10 200 GB HDD using MaxBlast Maxtor tools. It went fairly well, but took about 4-5 hours. You could also use Norton Ghost, but it didn't work too well for me

 

[renegadez]

thanks guys

i'll try out the WD one first...should be ok...4-5 hours i guess isn't too too bad...
its better than burning everything to dvd and reinstalling