I bought a "Factory Refurbed" Western Digital 250Gb HD from Geeks.com for my stepson's workstation, and installed an OEM copy of Windows 7 Pro on it - I used my UW student discount for $44.00.
Now the damned thing sounds like a Hitachi Deathstar, clicking like crazy until the heads finally find their proper location and allow tracks and sectors to be read.
I want to image this drive to another drive of similar size, without having to reactivate the Windows 7 install again. Supposedly, the Student Edition Win 7 Pro only allows one re-install for hard drive failures, and then you're done.
So I'm thinking Digital Dolly, and have been looking at Clonezilla, too.
Win 7 is also supposed to offer its own imaging capability, but I certainly don't want to go through the steps and find that I still have to format the new drive and do a complete install/activation.
Can anybody here offer insight?