Making an ISO image of a hard drive means creating a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Here are two ways to do just that.

I have a 160GB hard drive in a laptop running an OEM copy of Win XP. I want to replace the HDD with a larger, 320Gb unit. What would be the simplest way of doing this? Any software recommendations ...

Drive formats ok and appears to work with out an issue, Im trying to write an ISO to it and it just fails it goes REALLY slow via usb then stops somewhere between 5% and 10 % complete. bad drive ...