Imaging System to New Disk

Clocker

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What's currently the best free program for imaging a system over from an old 160GB drive to a new 1TB drive that you guys would use?

Coworker is going to be getting a new disk. He knows enough about computers to be able to boot to a CD/DVD if that's needed but it should otherwise be easy to use. He'll be imaging over a Vista 32-bit installation.

Thanks,
Kevin
 

Mercutio

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Acronis TrueImage is my go-to software for that. Clonezilla is a freebie. Stereodude had a long thread describing his personal experiences trying to clone drives to maintain partition boundaries with SSDs that might be interesting if it's a concern you have (which it probably isn't, since your target drive is 1TB).
 

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There are free versions of Acronis available depending on what brand drive you are using.
 
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