Cloning macbook hard drive, What Software? Will boot camp copy?

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I have a 500gb hard drive on its way for my macbook to replace its 120gb one it comes with. I also have an external SATA case and have heard about cloning. It sounds like a great idea as it lets me keep all my files and settings just the way I had them before. Does anyone know of some good software (preferably free)? And will the cloning software copy my boot camp partition?

Another question, can a boot camp partition be resized? I originally set it at 32gbs but now that I have more space would like to make it bigger.

Thanks for the help.
 

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1. Cloning software: SuperDuper (shareware), Carbon Copy Cloner (donation)

Both will create a bootable clone to an external hard drive which can then be used to boot your Mac and clone back to the new hard drive. However, they will only clone your OS X partition.

2. Clone your Boot Camp partition: WinClone is a free utility which can be used to make a copy of your BC partition.

3. Resize a Boot Camp partition: Paragon software's "CampTune" can non-destructively resize a BC partition. Software is free for now.

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You got that one down to a science.

Now an automator script so you don't have to type it again - or do you have that already also?
 

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