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I'd prefer not to make an image but copy the files as is. If I have to make an image I can, but it's more hassle.
why is it a hassle to make an image? wouldn't copying directories and rearranging them on the destination be more work or hassle than cloning it from the image?
 
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Just data mainly, I could care less about registry entries. Lots of pictures. I'm not sure where they all are... and the drive is in rough shape.

If you can not crack then why dont you go to some hardware/software shop near by with your system. I think They may have various tools to help you out.
 
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Nortons Ghost always worked for me - as long as drive is not in bad shape (it will ask to skip bad sector )
Just select Drive to Drive -you wont have to worry about your partition being too big it will copy data and make partition on new drive same size as the data
You will need to mark the drive as an active boot drive after though - in Disk management ( if a bootable drive)

Another gem is Acronis products

If the drive is in too bad shape , would copy files over with killcopy and ask to skip files on error or manually skip on error

Active@ boot- have some great tool which should work fine
 
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You can use numerous utilities to handle the long name/path issues.
I generally use Richcopy to copy raw data in large amounts.
Easeus is a free imaging software, you could likely create an image with it and then extract the data to the new drive.

Are you trying to copy a disk that is active? As in using installed software or os on that disk? --- That generally doesn't work the best.
 
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If you can not crack then why dont you go to some hardware/software shop near by with your system. I think They may have various tools to help you out.
they don't know as much they know general stuff, they're pretty basic I tried taking a bios rom chip to be erased and they said that was too advanced.
 
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I've used this before and it worked fine: https://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html

HDclone does work - All you need is the free version to get it done.
It only does so many clone operations and it's feature/speed limited due to being free but at least it will clone the drive for you if it can be done at all with the drive in it's current condition.
 
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