Need Help with Hard Drive Migration

[Hebdomad]

So I've I've recently had to upgrade my 1Tb drives to 3Tb drives as I'm picking up more video editing work.
I've already transferred one drive with a simple copy paste and a drive directory swap.

But the other hard drive I need to upgrade contains a few important partitions that just can't just be copied over.
It needs it's disk image moved across to the other drive.

I know there's a few good applications for this and I was wondering what people recommend.

I was wondering what people thought of this application.
(Seagate disk wizard)
http://www.seagate.com/au/en/support/downloads/discwizard/

 

[kirashi]

Personally I use Clonezilla through a bootable linux USB, such as PartedMagic or gParted. It's a more advanced tool but gets the job done. Otherwise there are programs I have used on Windows such as EaseUs Partition Master and Acronis TrueImage. Personally, I found Acronis to be the easiest and most complete tool for editing partitions from Windows.

Is the drive you need to clone a bootable OS drive? If so, gParted/PartedMagic, or something like Acronis should be able to handle cloning it bit-for-bit, however, keep in mind that depending on the partition structure currently being used, you may or may not be able to expand the Data partition to fill up the 3TB drive you're cloning it to if the bootable OS is picky about where the partitions are located on disk.

 

*the PartedMagic link is an affiliate link, but only in so much as to let the developer know how his live OS is being discovered. I strongly believe in PartedMagic as someone who uses it almost weekly for some kind of data recovery or computer troubleshooting work, since my day job involves web development and general IT consulting. Out of all the different live recovery linux OS's, it's the one that works best for me, but there are others out there too.