Simplest Cloning/Parttion mamagement software

[rojash]

My XP machine has two physical drives:
Disk 0 is 240GB divided into 3 roughly equal partitions
Disk 1 is 300GB divided into 2 roughly equal partitions.

I have a WD 1TB external drive, but the USB interface has packed up. It's a SATA drive, so I'd like to mount it internal in the machine, then transfer all the existing partitions onto it, expanding them proportionally.

I've Googled Disk Cloning software and Ghosting software, but all the stuff I can find seems incredibly complicated, with a lot of focus on backups, compression etc., which doesn't interest me at all. Also most of it seems to want to do a backup to somewhere, followed by a restore to the target. Years ago there was definitely stuff out there that would just do what I wanted (i.e. select source partitions, select target drive, check auto-expand).

Any suggestions?

[Buenchico]

I'm a bit out of my depth here. All I've done is go to download.com, entered 'clone disk' as a search term and then filtered the results by clicking on 'free'. However you might like to take a look at this:
http://download.cnet....-2242_4-10964460.html

Chris

[ChuckFickens]

http://www.macrium.com/

Pretty easy and unlike most lets you restore to a larger partition.

[rojash]

Thanks for the suggestions, guys.

I'm going to download them both and have a look - although, Chuck, reading the stuff on the Macrium site, it seems to indicate that you have to perform the intermediate step of backup to, and restore from, a third medium, which is what I'm trying to avoid :-)