Cloning a Laptop Drive

I recently had cause to replace a laptop hard drive, cloning the contents to avoid having to reinstall all the software on it. Here is a list of the tools used and steps taken:

1. Clone drive to external USB hard disk using EaseUS® Todo Backup Free 4.0*
2. Remove old hard drive from laptop and replace with new one.
3. Clone old drive image from USB to new laptop hard drive using  EaseUS® Todo Backup Free 4.0 (bootable disk).
4. Boot from Windows install CD and run system repair to fix master boot record (lost as it can't be sector cloned to USB hard drives).
5. Boot from new hard drive into Windows.
6. Run chkdsk /r to verify and repair new disk and file system.

* I actually used CloneZilla for this step, as I hadn't yet discovered EaseUS Todo Backup. Image based clones were failing due to the old hard drive physically failing, so a sector-sector clone was completed. CloneZilla could not restore this sector-sector image back from the intermediate drive as it wouldn't clone a 1TB drive back to a 500GB drive (I couldn't find a way to sector clone just the portioned areas of the external drive). EaseUS Todo Backup happily restored only the required partitions back to the new 500GB drive.

My C# Development Environment and Tools

This is a quick list of the tools and services I currently use while developing in C#. Mostly for my reference, but may also be a helpful resource for anyone wanting to set up a TDD environment: