How Can I Make An Exact Copy of Drive C?

[Jerry Lieb]

My hard drive is on its last legs. I can purchase a new hard drive of the same brand and model number. What is the easiest way to copy everything from drive C to the new drive? Someone suggested a program called "Ghost". Has anyone here done something like this before? Is "Ghost" the best software for this, or is there something better.

Don't know if this complicates matters - but my hard drive is partitioned into C and D sections.

My hope is that I would be able to simply plug the new drive into a USB port, then copy from C to the new drive. After all was copied to the new drive, I would then install the new drive inside my computer and toss out the old drive.

Any suggestions will be cheerfully welcomed......!

Jerry

 

[EDWARD BERRY]

Acronis Will Do It

 

[Jerry Lieb]

Ed - thanks, I'll check out Acronis. Have you ever done this youself?

 

[Metamorphic]

Acronis True Image.

I did my wife's notebook a couple months ago. I made a full image of her drive and saved it to the desk top that has a big drive. Put the new drive in an enclosure, and re inflated the image onto the new drive. Then I installed he new drive in the notebook.

It has some pretty good tutorials that hand hold you through the process.

Acronis is nice because you can make an image than up date the image regularly. When your drive crashes, its a no brainer to recover to your last image update.

 

[Jerry Lieb]

Metamorphic,

Thanks for the info on your experience with Acronis. It sounds like it was a fairly easy process for you. Hopefully mine will go just as smoothly.

Jerry

 

[Howard Klahr]

Although I have not yet done this, my computer tech also recommended Acronis and is the program he uses for his clients. Here is the link to their web site

http://www.acronis.com/

 

[Scott Kibler]

I've had to do it a couple times in the past with Norton Ghost. Worked perfectly. I now use Acronis as my backup but haven't yet had to use it to restore.

 

[Carnivore]

Norton I can not stand. I have acronis and apricorn. These are much simpler to use.

 

[Jerry Lieb]

Thanks all for your input. Sounds like Acronis is the one.

Jerry

 

[AL LLANOS]

I used Acronis a year ago, the free trial version. I was very impressed with it.