Help!! Cloning old drive to new HDD

[velani]

Hello,

I need to replace by 320GB HD on x220. The drice is taking over 15 minutes to boot up and taking extensively long times in Outlook, opening files and browsing directories. I have a brand new 320GB hard drive I want to move everything (C:, D: and the recovery partion fpor Win7 x64).

What is the best method of moving all contents of the failing drive to new drive, specially the revocery partition?

I created a system image last night from old drive but cannot restore the image using recovery disc. Any help today would be greatly appreciated. TIA

[GomJabbar]

For identical hard drives, you can use a Clonezilla Live CD. I did this successfully with the following commands from the shell (command prompt).

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$ sudo -i
# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

Note: The $ and # above are prompts and not part of the commands.

Note 2: dd is also known as "data destroyer". Make sure you know which drive is the target and which is the source, otherwise you overwrite your original drive with the nothingness from the new drive. sda would be the drive in the main hard drive slot.

There are other ways of cloning your drive. This is just how I did it.

http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php

[velani]

For identical hard drives, you can use a Clonezilla Live CD. I did this successfully with the following commands from the shell (command prompt).

Code: Select all

$ sudo -i
# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

Note: The $ and # above are prompts and not part of the commands.

Note 2: dd is also known as "data destroyer". Make sure you know which drive is the target and which is the source, otherwise you overwrite your original drive with the nothingness from the new drive. sda would be the drive in the main hard drive slot.

There are other ways of cloning your drive. This is just how I did it.

http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php

Thanks a lot GomJabber, this is extremely helpful. I appreciate your taking the time to reply with solid details.

[redburgundy]

Acronis True image works very well.