Free hard drive clone software for windows

Requirements: .NET 2 Framework

Whats new in this version: Its FREE!

Hard Drive Monitor 1.4 is a free but useful hard drive monitoring utility which enables you to keep an eye on all hard drives on your computer, tell the hard disk status and information on live time. This program can monitor all your hard drives in your PC, and show you one detailed report about your hard drives, include drive status, drive information, spin-up time, drive temperature and more, all data will be updated in real time. Program will show one hard drive thermometer in your PC desktop tray, so you can get this message at a glance, it is useful for predicting pc drive failures.

Why you need one Hard Drive Monitor?
Normally, for most PC users, they will save all main important files and data on their hard disks, hard disks, the hard disks are the most important of the various types of permanent storage used in your PCs. This Program support to read and monitor S.M.A.R.T. data of all your hard drives, these data is important for keeping health of your disks.
While you run some big data operations on your disk for a long time, your hard drive will be more and more hotter, once the drive temperature over some critical point, it become very danger for your hard drive data. This program is not data recovery software, but it can help you to monitor all your hard disks, it is a free and handy HDD diagnostic utility for your everyday use.

Major Features:

1. Tiny monitoring utility, use a small amount of resources itself
2. No need install, you can launch it from one USB Flash disk
3. Show you drive temperature in real time (run as a little icon in your system tray)
4. Support multi hard drives
5. Free tool, freeware and easy to use
6. Support all windows OS.

Requirements: Windows

Major Features:

1. Clone with High Speed:
   • When you clone a hard disk to another within the computer box, the transfer speed can accelerate to 7GB per minute. You wait much less time than other competitive products.
2. Clone to Removable Hard Disk:
   • PC Disk Clone can use a USB or Firewire(IEEE1394) cable to clone to an external drive.
3. Clone any System on any File System type:
   • PC Disk Clone is independent of file system formats and operating systems.
   • Clone unknown, hidden or proprietary Partition Formats
   • Besides the abilities to clone NTFS, FAT, EXT2, EXT3, HFS, XFS, JFS and ZFS Disk Formats, cloning can also be very successful in case of unknow, hidden, or proprietary file systems.
4. Clone Dual Boot Systems:
   • PC Disk Clone can copy hard disk with dual bootable systems. For instance, Windows and Linux within one hard disk can start up successfully in the backup disk.
5. Necessary Tool for Data Rescue:
   • PC Disk Clone can also be used for data rescue. Because hard disk with defective areas always need to be copied to another disk before any recovery procedure. Otherwise, the recovery may cause further defects resulting from the inherent exposure of the recovery operation. PC Disk Clone reduces the exposure to its minimum due to its sector copy mechanism. (Note: Only Sector copy can be used to recover data from hard drive.)
6. Best Choice to migrate Systems:
   • PC Disk Clone is ideal to migrate Windows Systems to new computer with the help of Microsoft Sysprep tool. After a few preparation using sysprep, Migrating Hard Disk Data, as well as eliminating the annoyance of reinstalling Windows and of loosing personal information, will become easy and efficient.
   • Best Choice to Upgrade/Replace Hard Drive
   • Upgrading an old disk with new one is almost the same as migrating system to new computer except the new disk drive will still be used in the same computer.
7. Best Choice For Laptop Installation Backups:
   • PC Disk Clone provides the possibility to create a local backup of an entire system installation for Laptops. If required, a simple restore from the backup partition brings the system installation back into its original state. Therefore, Laptops can create a partition on the unused disk space as a backup of system. After having installed the system, make a copy of the system drive to the backup drive. Then you can restore the original system partition at any time by copying in the opposite direction.