If you feel that your hard disk drive may fail anytime. Don’t wait it to happen, buy a new hard disk and clone the data from your failing drive.
Steps to clone the hard disk
- attached second hard disk to the computer
- attached cdrom or dvdrom to the computer or usb drive
- turn on the computer
- while initializing start-up press Delete or F2 key on the keyboard to Enter the Bios Setup
- go to advance features setup
- set the boot order to first boot device = CDROM or usb
- press F10 to save the bios configuration and exit the setup
at the Hirens menu selection
- select start bootCD
- select backup tools
- select norton ghost
- ghost (normal)
- The message appear do you want to delete swap file, select no
- Click local – disk – to disk
- Select the drive to clone
- Select destination drive
- Read and accept all warnings
- then proceed cloning
Watch the Cloning of Hard Disk Drive Using Hirens Bootcd – Video guide
Download the Hirens Boot CD or Boot USB here