Can someone help me totally clone a drive that contains a boot partition?

[c.ruel]

Hi,

I had a hard disk failure, for complicated reasons I need to swap the replacement one (WD) with another one I already have (a seagate). How can I totally clone the seagate one to the WD so I can use the WD as the single boot drive on the computer that use to take the seagate one.

I think you all get what i mean .

[Unique]

http://forums.hexus.net/software/204...d-1tb-hdd.html

you will get mine and other peoples answers in that thread. most if not all clone software let's you boot afterwards. easus partition manager is free and i use that a bit

[gagaga]

Hi,

I had a hard disk failure, for complicated reasons I need to swap the replacement one (WD) with another one I already have (a seagate). How can I totally clone the seagate one to the WD so I can use the WD as the single boot drive on the computer that use to take the seagate one.

I think you all get what i mean .

Download the Acronis tools from the WD website - lets you clone / backup whole drives. Normally about £30, but the WD edition just needs to detect one of the drives in your system as WD to work.

[peterb]

Lots of info in the link uni posted. Personally, I'd use a linux live CD and the dd command.

[c.ruel]

I did gagaga's suggestion and it worked really well. Thanks for all your help everyone .

[Unique]

I did gagaga's suggestion and it worked really well. Thanks for all your help everyone .

good stuff. now watch how many people keep on replying over the next few months so they can get free shipping from scan