How do i clone a hard drive

[Shalantas]

I have an 80 gb IDE ATA 100 seagate hdd and want to upgrade to a 160 gb western digital IDE ATA 100 hdd. but i need to clone my hdd. i found a decent freeware but theres one problem. It clones it over to the new hdd but the extra space is in a seperate partition. I would use a partition tool to merge the partitions but i dont have a floppy drive to boot off of. Does anybody have any way of cloning a hard drive for free. i dont have 60 bucks to splurge on a cloning software although norton ghost does look nice. and if only pirating werent illegal. Anyways please help i would appreaciate it thankyou.

 

[Dangman]

Use GParted to merge the two partitions together. It's a downloadable ISO file which you can then burn to CD.

 

[Shalantas]

funny how i never came accross that. is it effective? any risks? on their web site do they have walkthroughs or atleast instructions i just dont want to delete all my crap lol.