Cloning C: drive

bubusam13

Human
Hi guys, I got a new 1TB HDD and I want an exact copy of my C: drive of my old HDD. I going to sell my old HDD.
How do I accomplish the same ? Pls recommend free tools. I am going to male a 250 GB partition in the new HDD for C: drive and I want it bootable.
 

whitestar_999

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Staff member
you can try macrium reflect free version.however my suggestion is don't do anything before thoroughly reading the help manual.
 
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bubusam13

bubusam13

Human
Ok, Thank you all. I had another question.

I will make 4 partitions. C,D,E,F. I want D and E inaccessible to other accounts. Since my bro and parents use my PC too. How to achieve that. I don't want software like disk locker which encrypts the disk. Because it I forgot the password, I may be in trouble. I want that when I login to my account, these drives are accessible, and when logged form another account, these drives are inaccessible.

How to achieve this ?
 
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whitestar_999

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it depends on how familiar you are with using ntfs security permissions in windows xp/7.in ntfs formatted drives you can set security permission on the root of a drive & then by inheritance rule can transfer permissions to all child objects inside that drive.by default group "everyone" has access.you can remove it & specifically set "guest" user group to deny even "read" permission so when someone logged in using a guest account try to double-click on drive icon in my computer an error message saying "you do not have sufficient privileges to access" will appear.
 
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bubusam13

bubusam13

Human
it depends on how familiar you are with using ntfs security permissions in windows xp/7.in ntfs formatted drives you can set security permission on the root of a drive & then by inheritance rule can transfer permissions to all child objects inside that drive.by default group "everyone" has access.you can remove it & specifically set "guest" user group to deny even "read" permission so when someone logged in using a guest account try to double-click on drive icon in my computer an error message saying "you do not have sufficient privileges to access" will appear.

I know about security permissions but many a time made mistake. Can you put a brief tutorial on this ?
 

whitestar_999

Super Moderator
Staff member
right click on folder/drive properties.then click security tab.click edit to change permissions.new window titled "permission for ..." opens.remove the group/groups(whichever are present) "users/user/everyone/guest".click on apply.you should now see a box running file names titled applying security information.after done click apply/ok.now check after login using guest account & double-clicking the drive in my computer.
 
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