What software would you recommend for cloning one hard drive directly to another? I'm replacing the 1 TB drives in my system with 2 TB drives. One contains my media and documents while the other contains my games. I had the free edition of Macrium Reflect already on my computer from before, but it seems like I can only clone to an image, then restore the image, as opposed to cloning directly from disk-to-disk. I'm open to suggestions!
I've used Acronis True Image once. It functioned.
you can get Acronis true image free on the Western Digital site; check first if it can do what you want, as i think it's not the full version.
I've never heard of hard drive cloning, outside of a Raid 1, which I currently use with two 1 TB drives. It was available on the motherboard I installed and has worked flawlessly for the past 3 years.
I've been used Acronis for a year and it has worked for me every time use it.
Oh, I meant to respond to this. J.B., thanks for the heads-up on the WD Edition of Acronis True Image. It's doing what I want. I've cloned one drive, and I'll start the other when I'm done with my system tonight.
New hard drives are in and seem to be doing fine. Old hard drives are out. I had a new hard drive dock to help with the process, too:
Thermaltake BlacX Duet 5G ST0022U ABS Pl... Station, BlackI had a single-drive eSATA version but felt like upgrading to a dual-drive. This one uses USB 3.0. I didn't actually time it, but I think it took like 4-5 hours per drive. One drive had ~600 gigs on it, and the other had ~800 gigs.