Can anyone suggest some free software to create an image of an hard drive please?

Wrong forum. Anyway – Mac or PC? If Mac, suggest you use Carbon Copy Cloner. It has a 30 day free trial. I can’t help if PC, but I’m sure others here can.

Yes, sorry, I noticed it was in the wrong forum just as I pressed submit.

PC 🙂

did mine with norton ghost, moved the boot drive to a solid state, the trickiest problem was getting the drive letter set afterwards (sorry just read your request properly and the free part 😳 )

never had any issues with this: http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm

Some of the hard drive manufacturers seem to have them e.g. Samsung, but they are only when cloning to their drives.

never had any issues with this: http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm

We use the techniicans version of this at work, can’t fault it really. Almost as good as Acronis.

Clonezilla.

This does the job for me on Windows, and isn’t full of adware or bloated. Uses Volume Shadow Copy so it can copy while the system is in use, or there are live CD options. https://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

Or down and dirty, boot a Linux live CD and use ‘dd’ command and that should be able to copy any partition format.

Have used both of these on a Mac – I believe they work on Windows too. Free trails

Carbon Copy Cloner
Super Duper

Swapped out my spinner for an SSD, the Samsung one that comes with the SSD device is simple as.

For Windows we have been using various versions of Acronis for many years