Clone hard drive

Can I clone my hard disk and transfer it to another hard disk????
will i try so many times to copy all the contents of my hard disk to another hard disk but it doesn't worked...

 

An alternative is XXClone, available here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/XXCLONE_d5534.html

Simple free program, lets you just clone a data drive or make a drive bootable.

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just a question following on to the replies given to the OP. sorry if this is considered a hijack, but it seems silly to open another thread for a discussion which follows logically/completes this one, and which might interest the OP as well.

Is it possible, with either of these softwares, to produce that bootable image of the drive, while working from an OS that is in another drive?

In other words, say the computer has a dual boot, and I'm working on OS-A, If I download, install, and run the software, can I copy the OS-B which is sitting in another partition (but the folders of which I can access through windows explorer)? If so, will that image be bootable?

 

For best results, you should use a bootable application. It allows for exclusive access to both drives, and you can get a full copy that way. In addition to the programs already mentioned, here's a couple of free ones:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Digital_Dolly_d5183.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/EaseUs_Disk_Copy_d4845.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/HDClone_Free_Edition_d3809.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/ImageMaker_d3914.html (run from within Windows)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Lexun_Backup_Solution_d3785.html (run from within Windows)
There's a few for you. There's many more in the Backup downloads here at Major Geeks. http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads3.html
So, welcome to Major Geeks, and good luck!

 

Acronis Does, yes it would be
More infos - product homepage
official support

 

thanks for the fast reply...
what I've done is I connect the two hard disk in my PC then i copy all the contents of my old hard disk to the new one. then use the new hard disk as my primary hard disk. but it doesn't work. i use windows XP SP2. thank you i will now try this if it will work.

 

Do not select disk image in Acronis. That would give you a complete backup but the hd would not be bootable.
Select Disk Clone.
After you have done this, you need to change the original hard drive from master to slave and the cloned drive from slave to master. You have to open the computer. You may hve to change jumpers on the back of both hard drives. You probably also have to change the position of the connector. Put the connector attached to old drive C onto the new drive C.