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[Varche]

I am trying the fairly simple(to most people I would suspect) task of replicating everything on my temporary 30Gb hard C drive to a vast(to me) 250 Gb hard drive.

I got out my bought copy of Norton Ghost 2002 and can't get it to work  as I haven't a floppy drive.

Any recommendations for a free downloadable programme that will do the job easily?

[Jimbob]

google hirens boot cd.

its now a bootable cd of free recovery program, and im sure theres an imaging program on there

(it was illegal in previous versions, but has gone legit now)

[Kevin Wood]

I use a linux live CD that contains tools to clone drives and also resize the NTFS partition to use the whole of the new disk. Can't remember what it's called though.

Clonezilla Live looks worth a try... http://www.clonezilla.org/

[Varche]

forgot to add that op system is XP

PC involved only has a cd/dvd play drive(not RW). I have access to another machine that could download and burn a CD.

It does have USB and I have some fair sized sticks(4 and 8GB)

[Kevin Wood]

forgot to add that op system is XP

PC involved only has a cd/dvd play drive(not RW). I have access to another machine that could download and burn a CD.

It does have USB and I have some fair sized sticks(4 and 8GB)

Some of the "live" drive imaging software will also boot from a USB stick. CD might be the less painful route, though. Not all machines support booting from USB.

[justjohn]

Might find something in here, worth a browse

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-drive-imaging-program.htm

[TheBoy]

The now legal Hiren's comes with the Seagate branded Acronis TrueImage. Easy, intuative, reliable.

[VXL V6]

Used Clonezilla with success