How to use Easeus to image a hard drive

Hi. I am hoping you knowledgeable folks can help me out here. I am faced with the task of imaging a hard drive that is probably on its last legs. I have read that Easeus ToDo is a good tool to use for this purpose. I have the failing hard drive, the laptop it came out of, and my working laptop. I also have a hard drive usb adapter. I would like to run Easeus on my working laptop, with the failing hard drive connected via usb adapter, and image the failing drive onto a cd so that when I get the new drive, I can transfer the image of the failing drive to the new drive. Is this possible? Also, once I have the drive imaged, what do I do from there to get the data onto the new drive?
I apologize if I'm asking questions to which the answers are obvious; I'm learning as I go here.
Thanks!

 

I haven't used Todo backup. But your idea of backing up to CD is what concerns me. Depending on how much data is on the failing HD it would take a lot of CDs to contain the data (this is if ToDo supports breaking up the image file to span several CDs--I'm not sure it would). [EDIT: It appears it may let you split the image file into CD sized pieces. How large is the HD you are trying to backup? Are you just trying to back up the C: partition and if so how big is it?]

I've just downloaded Todo so I haven't looked at it yet but from the website it appears it contains the ability to create a bootable CD with the ToDo software. I'll burn the CD and see what the options are in the next day.

I think the plan would be to put the failing drive in the old laptop connect the new HD by way of USB cable and use the bootable CD to run ToDo and copy the whole failing HD to the new HD. [The connections on the HD may be reversed (I'd have to read) with the new one in the laptop and the old one in the USB]

Does the failing HD still work and run Windows? (Todo will just make an exact copy of the HD so if the old one doesn't run the OS then the new one may not run it either)

 

Sach2,
Thank you for your reply! I hadn't thought about having to use a number of cds to image the drive. I like your idea of using the bootable cd from easeus and connecting both drives to the old laptop. As far as the partition goes, I'm not sure. I was given the laptop in BSOD mode so couldn't access anything. Let me know how it goes with the bootable cd and drive connection order. Thanks again!

 

I tried Todo from the CD and it worked fine. It is fairly automatic. You just have to make sure you have the source and destination drives correct.

I don't have a USB adapter so I couldn't test that it would read a drive connected by USB. You could test that even before the new drive arrives by connecting the old drive by USB to the laptop and booting from the CD.

As far as drive installation position I don't think it matters. I would put the new drive in the laptop and use the USB for the old drive.

 

Great. Thank you for the update. I'll give it a shot when the new drive arrives and post my results.

 

I suppose you know that if you can write to DVD, instead of CD, the DVD has a
standard capacity of 4.7 Gigabytes, whereas the CD is only about 700 Megabytes.

Just thought I'd throw that in.
Good luck.

 

I ended up having to use Easeus Disk Copy since ToDo wouldn't clone the disk having a bad sector. It ended up with 14 read errors, so hopefully that sector was a page file or something insignificant and no data was lost. Have the new drive up and running and all seems well. Thank you for your help!