How do i copy 1 hard drive to another?

[Guest]

How do i copy 1 hard drive to another while leaving all the files in the original hard drive in-tact and will the newly copied hard drive be bootable

 

[beenthere]

There are several free disk copy softwares online. The new drive can be made bootable if you chose that option when cloning. I have not used the software at the link below but a google search will turn up the freeware that exists for drive cloning.

http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

 

[tokencode]

another good program is R-drive image (r-tt.com)

 

[cadder]

If you just wanted to copy files you could do xcopy or robocopy, or windows drag and drop.

But you said you wanted to keep it bootable. If you want to copy the OS and everything then you need to "clone" your drive, as mentioned by "beenthere" above. There are lots of free and commercial programs that will clone a hard drive. One of the most popular is Acronis Truimage.

 

[Guest]

Best answer selected by terdy10234.