Best cloning software solution IMO is from EASUS, both their disc copy software and their partitioning software.

Free for home/private use. Ran circles around the Acronis that came with the last WD or Seagate drive that I purchased. The main thing it did was power through bad sectors on the failing HDD. Acronis just stopped and threw up it's hands left me with a sinking feeling in my stomach.

EASUS logged the bad sectors but kept moving forward with the copy. Saved my rear-end big time. Not that my rear is big.

I will forever sing it's praises because of that.