Clone hdd to different capacity

[tremor]

Hi all, kindly provide your assistance.

I'm running a desktop with ssd as boot drive and normal hdd as secondary installation and data drive.

My secondary drive is dying with bad sectors. It's a seagate 1tb drive. Am I able to buy a 2tb drive and clone to it? So that the partition remains as one and my installations still works fine? If so, what freeware cloning tool to use?

 

[yau_chee]

You can extend the drive after cloning

 

[tremor]

You can extend the drive after cloning

thanks, but can you elaborate?

You mean when it clone, it will create a 1tb partition, then I have to merge the rest of the unused space to it?

Can you recommend a cloning tool?

 

[jtjt00]

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-free-and-reliable-cloning-tools/

 

[yau_chee]

Yeah, just merge them and u can try Macrium Reflect Free.
Easy to use.

 

[epos]

AOMEI Backupper, don't need to extend or merge or whatever, you can select the destination size--as long its larger than the source data size.

As a long time Ghost user, I prefer this way more than the MRF.

 

[ykgoh]

AOMEI Backupper, don't need to extend or merge or whatever, you can select the destination size--as long its larger than the source data size.

As a long time Ghost user, I prefer this way more than the MRF.

This is tiong company. Dunno got spyware inside or not.

Sauce: http://www.aomeitech.com/company.html

CHENGDU AOMEI Technology Co., Ltd.
Address: 3F, SOHO Business Port, No.5 HongJiXin Rd, Chengdu, China
Postcode: 610000

 

[tremor]

Actually i just bought a WD 3TB Green HDD, and found out that WD provide HDD tool for free.

So will be using their free Acronis True Image WD Edition Software instead LOL.

 

[epos]

This is tiong company. Dunno got spyware inside or not.

Sauce: http://www.aomeitech.com/company.html

and you think the angmoh company doesn't? we are talking about if the software is good, not if you like Mainland Chinese or not.

and as soon as you are online, anything you do can be traced. don't go online?