Windows hard drive clone software

[r0jaws]

Knowing the breadth and depth of experience on this forum I thought I would ask on here before spending my evening trawling t'interweb for a reliable solution.
I have a Laptop, who's drive is rapidly failing. I have managed to copy the data from the drive, but would like to see if I can clone the drive onto a replacement 2.5" drive.
Preferably I would like a free solution, but whatever happens it must be a reliable solution, which is able to cope with an erratic drive.
Anyone use anything that might fit the bill?

 

[Tajmaster]

This thread may help Phil: https://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=52423

 

[BrooksterMax]

I have done similar cloning using Norton Ghost a few years back but of course anything with "Norton" in the name will cost a pretty penny. However it was easy to use and did the job nicely.

As for freeware alternatives, hopefully someone can come up with something like Norton Ghost for nowt.

Unless you have access to copy from work or something?

 

[r0jaws]

This thread may help Phil: https://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=52423

icard

Thanks Taj, I should have known there would be a thread on here for this sort of thing already.

I did have Norton Ghost a while back, and very good it was too. I could boot from CD and perform all sorts of magic tricks, it was very good and the only Norton Product I ever kept.
Although it seems to have vanished somewhere in the house move.

 

[soeter04]

I've used Cloanzilla for this. Free, and does what Ghost does
Put it on a usb stick, boot from that, and have a spare usb drive ready to save the image on...

 

[BLTCON0]

Clonezilla is awesome and I've used it a lot.
There was once however a single case where Clonezilla failed where Ghost succeeded.
Despite being Norton etc, Ghost is actually very good.

@r0jaws
Download an .iso of Hiren's boot CD, but look for an old version (9.x or 10.x range IIRC), you can find a suitable utility there.