EASEUS Disk Copy is an excellent disk copy software for all operating systems that can be used to copy data from one hard drive to another drive of the same or a bigger size. One of the main uses for this software is therefor to copy all data from one hard drive to a bigger one. The disk copy software will copy all data which essentially means that running Easeus Disk Copy to copy the data of an 80 Gigabyte hard drive to a bigger hard drive will copy 80 Gigabytes of data to the new hard drive (a sector to sector copy so to speak).

This obviously includes deleted files which makes the disk copy software an excellent tool for hard disk recovery as well. The data could be copied to a spare hard drive and analysed on that hard drive without having to tamper with the original hard drive.

EASEUS Disk Copy is supplied as an ISO image which has to be burned to disk. The computer has to be booted from the CD drive to run the disk copy software. The software can also be used to copy data from one partition to another.

The process of copying on disk or partition to another is straightforward and fast. It usually involves selecting the copy mode and picking the source and destination drives or partitions. The disk copy software supports hard disks of up to one Terabyte.

HD Clone Free might be the solution in this case. The tool can copy contents from a smaller hard drive to a newer one without interfering with an existing operating system, file system or partition layout. It supports IDE, SATA and USB drives with capacities larger than 127 Gigabytes. It does have some limitations though which mainly affect the transfer rate. The maximum transfer rate is limited to 5 Megabytes per second and only USB 1.1. is supported.

Most retail versions of HD Clone support SCSI, Firewire and USB 2.0 but that’s probably not necessary for someone who is transferring files from one hard drive to another every two years or so.

The above image is from the professional version, not the free one. HD Clone creates a bootable floppy disk or CD at first start which is being used to boot the computer and load the HD Clone software. It would not be possible to transfer system files in Windows if Windows is running.

The free version can only copy contents from smaller hard drives to larger ones. Copying partitions is only supported in retail versions of HD Clone. It’s still a very handy tool to migrate from one hard drive to another. If you are using large hard drives you better start the process in the morning and it will most likely be finished once you come back later that day.