Cloning of my PC

[gannboy]

Hi there,

I am new to this forum. Let me introduce myself... My name is Eddy Kong and I would like to seek some help from IT experts here...

I have bought a Samsung M3 1TB external harddisk from the recent IT2014 show at MBS.

I want to use this HDD to clone my PC. But I have some questions before doing this:

1) Should I reformat the Samsung M3 HDD before I start the cloning process as the HDD already comes with a backup software?

2) Which cloning software works best? I have found out a few from the web..
EaseUS Partition Master Free?
EaseUS Todo Backup?
Acronis True Image?

Or any suggestions to a good and cheap cloning software?

3) What else do I have to take note while doing the cloning process?

Thanks and appreciate for coming back with assistance.

Cheers.

Eddy

 

[jtjt00]

For cloning, best to connect source and destination drives on same connection (sata) to prevent boot issue later on.

 

[gannboy]

For cloning, best to connect source and destination drives on same connection (sata) to prevent boot issue later on.

Thanks jtjt00 for reply to help me.

I am looking for possible youtube videos on this issue but cannot find any.

Do you happened to know if there are any video tutorials on this?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers.

Eddy

 

[huffie]

Tutorials on using Clonezilla
clonezilla tutorial windows 7 - YouTube