I have just received a 500 gigabyte hard drive that I'd like to start using on my PC, but I need to rethink my configuration. I only want to have 2 hard drives (or rather, really only have room for 2) in my PC. Right now I have:
40 GB HD - Windows install
200 GB HD - Miscellaneous storage
So I'd like to change it to:
200 GB HD - Windows install
500 GB HD - Miscellaneous storage
I'd like to use some kind of cloning tool to get everything from the 200 GB drive onto the 500 GB and then clone the contents of the 40 GB drive onto the 200 GB one. I'm not sure what the best tool for this job is but I have looked at the Ultimate Boot CD so far:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
It includes the following hard drive cloning tools:
HDClone (Free Edition) 3.2.6
g4u 1.17
UDPcas
PC INSPECTOR clone maxx 0.95 Build 769
XXCOPY 2.93.1
EaseUs Disk Copy 1.0
COPYR.DMA Build 013
CopyWipe
If any of those could be vouched for that'd be great. But asides from that please recommend what you think would handle this situation best, preferably free but if there's something for a decent price that'll save me headaches/sacrificing of my hard drives then I'll go for that too.
Posts
I also have a copy of Paragon Drive Copy, but it's not free, unless you can nab it from work like I did.
http://paragon-software.com/home/dc-personal
With the advent of HD media and just for general future proofing, I would do a 500GB and a 750GB if I were in your shoes.
Edit: Also toss that 40 in a beater box and run linux on it.