Ghost an entire hard drive

[I_techsupport]

Hello,
I am new on this forum.
I want to Ghost an entire hard drive?
Please provide me steps to do this
Laptop and OS details:
Lenovo Thinkpad E430
Processor: Intel Core i3-2370M
OS: pre-load windows 7 Professional SP1
Ram: 4 GB
HDD: 500 GB

Thanks in advance.

[Neil]

Welcome to the forum! You will find this operation rather simple to complete. You will need to read up on cloning applications such as Acronis True Image, Norton Ghost, Clonezilla, etc.

Basically, you will need a means of connecting both hard drives to the computer at the same time, and a means of booting the cloning application, usually from a CD/DVD or USB flash drive. Unless you just want to make a backup image of your current drive, then you might not want to clone, although it's still an option, but you may just want to store the image on a networked drive rather than another physically connected drive.