[coden4fun]

I need to find a nice free software cloner that I can clone my old hard drive in my laptop now and then later with the new drive put it in my laptop, so I don't have to install all the software over again.

I have both SATA drives one is a 160 which will be the one that will be cloned and a free 320 drive that will replace this drive.

I'm running windows 7 Ultimate

Any ideas?

This post has been edited by coden4fun: 25 October 2009 - 10:05 AM

[erik.price]

I use FBackup4.

I tried a whole bunch of different backup software for windows, but they all sucked. This one still isn't perfect, but it's got a clean interface and runs pretty smoothly without failing miserably (I'm looking at you, default Windows backup utility)

Wait, I somehow missed the 500 instances of the word "clone". I don't think FBackup directly clones the drive. Sorry nevermind.

Wait, again. Nevermind, I must be high or something. Yes, FBackup4 does allow cloning hard drives.

This post has been edited by erik.price: 25 October 2009 - 01:56 PM

[no2pencil]

Under Linux you can use dd to duplicate a hard drive to an iso image. You can also mount that iso image & access it like it's a local drive.

I almost always use this method to backup customers hard drives.

[IngeniousHax]

In windows isn't there xcopy? Or is that an illegitimate statement? I was under the im[pression xcopy would copy all your paths and files...