how do I clone a Win 7 drive?

[mrbigstuff]

can do it with an external, or use an internal drive that I have laying about. I've not researched this at all, so I'm asking on that basis to give me an idea of where to look for SW and direction. tx.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Is it an OEM drive? What brand, product, and model? What version of Win7? OEM can be a lot more complicated due to special partitions. I was using a Win8 Lenovo that has 4 freaking tiny partitions and would not let me swap a drive in and install Win7 or Server 2008R2 because the BIOS needs special partitions before it would even boot to the BIOS screen. :banghead:

[mrbigstuff]

it is an OEM Dell drive (SSD), Samsung manufacturer.

[decay]

do you want to use a Mac application, or a bootable CD/DVD?

WinClone Pro from Two Canoes (for Mac)

Clonezilla (open source CD/DVD)

http://clonezilla.org/

[mrbigstuff]

this is on a Win 7 machine, and not a hackintosh (sadly).

waitaminnit: do you mean to imply that I could remove the drive and use my MBP to clone this?

[decay]

we have used Winclone Pro to image Windows drives onto Macs for Boot Camp.

http://twocanoes.com/winclone/

[NewtonMP2100]

genetic manipulation.....???

[onthedownlow]

See my reply here: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1623932