My computer's 1TB hard drive failed not too long ago and I got a replacement from Western Digital. I cannot BOOT this PC in order to clone it to the new hard drive. The PC is an HP Pavilion with Windows 7. The hard drives are both Western Digital 1TB Caviar Green.
To read up on details of the problems my PC was having go here:
Hard drive, CPU, or other issue?
Now, I need a way to clone my new hard drive. Since I can't boot my PC, I can't use the majority of the cloning software programs unless I find another computer with space for 2 slave hard drives, since they run as Programs on your computer. I would like to know if its possible to run a clone utility from BOOT. I have searched all over and can't quite seem to find what I need.
I found this post with a list of programs but from I can tell these are all GUI programs and don't run on BOOT.
Is there a hard drive cloning utility that can but ran from a CD that I can select to run at BOOT? That way I could clone my old hard drive to the new one without having to find another PC with enough space for 2 more hard drives.
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