The Free Edition of HDClone is the ideal tool for moving or cloning contents of entire hard disks. Since it works on physical level it can be used with any operating system and any filesystem. HDClone copies the data for you. This allows you to transfer entire system installations to a newer hard disk quickly and easily (hard disk migration). It also adds the additional disk space automatically if desired. Since HDClone has its own operating system and is self-booting, it can be used even if the installed operating system is damaged. Therefore HDClone is also a great solution for data rescue on damaged hard disks or system installations.

HDClone, the universal cloning tool

defragmentation "on the fly" for NTFS
Compressed file images
Command line version for automated cloning & imaging
automatic downsizing of NTFS partitions
4k sector alignment for modern hard disks
SmartCopy & AutoExpand now supporting EXT4
cloning and imaging of Windows 7 + running on Windows 7
HotCopy & LiveImage while running Windows
SmartCopy & AutoExpand now supporting ext2/ext3 file systems
supporting hard disks > 2 Terabytes (= 2000 GB)
for data rescue, backup, migration, mass installations etc.
creates logical and physical 1:1 copies (= sector copies)
builds logical and physical image files
for use with hard disks and many other storage media
self-booting and running on Windows XP/Vista/Server