I'd only recommend drive cloning if both drive are exactly the same one. Otherwise you will most likely end up with offset alignment being off; inferior drive performance.Might I suggest a drive cloning operation? It's miles faster than copying within an OS environment, if the new drive is bigger than the old drive it will resize automatically, and I'm sorry I don't know of any other program that can do this besides Acronis Disc Director, but if someone else out there knows other (free) software, shoot
It is always the best to create a new partition and copy the file manually and/or fresh install OS.