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What is the easiest, safest way to clone my SATA HD boot drive?

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What is the easiest, safest way to clone my SATA HD boot drive?

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Some hard drive manufacturers like Seagate, Western Digital and Maxtor provide free utilities to their customers for cloning the old hard-drive and and transferring the image to the new disk. » Ranish Partition Manager – This is particularly useful if you have more than one operating system on a PC since it supports Linux, Windows, FreeDOS and FreeBSD. Ranish has a command line interface and it simulates disk partitioning using large files before working on the real hard drive partition tables. With Ranish, you can copy, move, and resize existing disk partitions. No fancy GUI here. » HD Clone – The HDClone Free Edition supports IDE/ATA/SATA hard disks and is intended for home users. There are no limitations except on the data copy limit which is restricted to 300 MB per minute. Besides copying complete drives, it is also possible to apply it to certain partitions only. [http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/08/clone-hard-drive-with-free-disk.html] Sources: