Other Cloning software and cloning onto a new hdd

I have bought myself a Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD as one of my 750gb HDDs failed the other month and given the two were bought together i suspect its a matter of time before the other fails..


I have win 7 on my ssd with most of the programs/games/vuze torrents/steam etc on the old still working 750 hdd.

I obviously want to clone the 750gb HDD onto the new seagate so could anyone recommend a program free or otherwise because i will just rip it

Also is it wise/any issues to clone onto a brand new HDD around 400gb of stuff or is it likely to cause more hassle than worth?

 

clonezilla is free and will do the job for you

 

hdclone has a free version also.

 

Thanks, i take it when i have made a copy i need to tell windows 7 via altering the path that the new drive is the new D drive?

 

when you clone a drive, you normally, disconnect the drive, replace it with the clone, then you need to get rid of the windows on the original drive.

 

This is available on giveawayoftheday.com

Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 3.0 Special Edition (English)

I've never used cloning software so I can't comment on it.

 

Use Seagate Diskwizard it's a free download from the Seagate site it's actually Acronis and is the best cloning program there is

 

If cloning to a SSD do you still need to offset the partion by a specifc amount for optimum performance? thanks

 

+1, Acronis is great.

 

Clonezilla is also great.

 

Acronis and paragon are good and easy to work with