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How can i clone my hard disk

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by babsontop4eva1

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My current system is operating on windows vista business, AMD 64 & and hdd size of 160GB. I have another hdd of the same size but with operating systems loaded on it but i no longer use it. I want a complete replication of the my current system on the idle disk. How can i do this?
do i have to format the un-used one to remove the OSs on it?
What i actually want is an exact replication of the current system to the idle drive.

Please help me out with steps to take.
TIA

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by dldorrance

This is a straight forward cloning project. Presumably your current computer will boot from a CD/ROM. You simply attach the second HDD to the computer, boot from a live CD containing cloning software and choose (carefully) which drive is the original drive and which is to be the target drive. No need to format the spare drive; the software will do that for you with a warning that it is about to destroy everything on the drive.

Here are several free programs that will do what you want:
http://www.clonezilla.org/
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/

by babsontop4eva1

Thanks a lot
This has cleared my doubt. I wasn't sure if the software will that automatically, thought i ad to go through the formatting blah blah to remove the current OS on the spare, but now am sure.
Actually i have downloaded UNetbootin to make my (clonezille) .iso file boot-able from flash. I will proceed just as you stated.

Thanks 1ce again.

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