HDD cloning

[DyGr00339]

Is there a free software to clone a hard drive out there? My desktop drive broke so i am currently using my laptop 5400 rpm drive :(

[Judahnator]

depending on your motherboard and its BIOS, it may have an option to clone a hard drive in it.

 

For example, i have a MSI 970a-g46 and in the BIOS i can clone drives. What MOBO do you have?

[DyGr00339]

Biostar a85W fM2 socket

[Tyrone_Jackson]

You can use EaseUS Todo Backup, it's free and I've used it to clone my 120gb HDD to an 250gbHDD

[thedave5000]

if your desktop drive broke it may be better to do a clean install of windows

[DyGr00339]

if your desktop drive broke it may be better to do a clean install of windows

Yeah thats what I did in the end, I couldn't find the disk before , thanks all

[snkmoorthy]

If you have Linux Live USB drive, you can use the two drives(USB or SATA directly).

 

Drive 1 - source - /dev/sda

Drive 2 - destination - /dev/sdb

 

on console - 

cat /dev/sda > /dev/sdb

or

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb