Transferring hard drive

[Rover45]

Hi every one. My hard drive is starting to make a mechanical noise so I want to copy my drive over to a new drive please can some one help me with this as I am not to sure how to go about it.

With many thank

Rover45

[Midknyte]

Did you run diagnostics on the drive? If there are bad sectors, you might not be able to clone/image the drive over.

What is the make/model of the drive? Seagate and WD have free imaging software.

[Rover45]

Hi Midknyte, yes I did all seems OK apart from the whining noise coming from the drive. Not sure of the make of the drive, will have a look in the mourning. Thank you so much for your help.

Rover45

[Rover45]

Hi Again, my drive is a Samsung SATA Drive. Is there any software for this drive ????

[Midknyte]

What is the make/model of your replacement drive? As long as one drive is a Seagate or WD, you can use their software.

Seagate bought out the Samsung HD division, so their DiscWizard software might work. It's actually Acronis TrueImage.
http://www.seagate.com/support/downl...ard-master-dl/

If you want freebies, you can try:
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
http://www.paragon-software.com/free/
http://redobackup.org/

Of course, you could also buy Acronis TrueImage. That's the software I use for my own systems.