Free Windows cloning tool

[bazookaman]

Any recommendations? I need something that will clone my boot SSD (recovery partitions and all) onto a new SSD that I can just swap out. Bootable an all.

[ztirffritz]

http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php

[decay]

http://clonezilla.org/

[D. Lawson]

Unsurprisingly, I also agree with the Clonezilla recommendation. I just used it last week to upgrade the hard drive in my Windows 7 HTPC. I had to use the flash drive version since the computer only has two SATA ports and no IDE channels, so I had to unplug the internal Blu-Ray drive in order to plug in both hard drives.

Everything carried over perfectly. No reactivation, no re-entering serial numbers, nothing. The only thing I had to do was drop into Disk Management and tell the new drive to use all of the "unused" space. (Since it cloned a 250 GB partition onto a 2 TB drive, it ended up with 1.5+ TB of unused, unformatted space. It took about two mouse clicks to "expand" the 250 GB to the full 2 TB.)

[DRR]

I have not used it yet, but I read about this and bookmarked it. I will probably try it next time I need to clone Windows.

http://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Todo-Bac...64460.html

[haikuman]

"Windows cloning tool"
Seems like an oxymoron to me *(:>*
The only Windows I do is here ~!~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMpc3velZE4

[Carm]

Used easeus todo backup tool. But you need to uninstall it when you are done because it loads at startup.