[TrashMan]

Teh title sez it all..

I'm looking for a program that directly copies the whole HDD to another one - EVERY SINGLE BIT.
Anyone know one?

[Shade]

What you need is a HD cloning program. HDClone is one, and there is a free basic version available.

[Prophet]

Norton Ghost is one option...

[Turambar]

but its norton, so go for HDClone.

norton= good at marketing, bad at everything else

[Colonol Dekker]

Norton could be gordon freemans dad..............

[Geezer]

Try Acronis TrueImage.

[perihelion]

I recommend a combination of Bart PE (a windows pre-installation environment boot CD) with DriveImage XML.  It is a bit more complicated in that you have to build the boot CD, but it is free and can handle just about any hardware configuration.  If you are using a RAID or other special controller, you may have to make sure you install the drivers when you build the Bart PE CD, but that's not hard.

Not as simple as the purchased off-the-shelf solutions like Acronis, but it has the advantage of being (legally) free.  The only catch is you need a windows XP SP2 install CD to build the Bart PE CD.

I'm assuming in all of this that you are using an M$ operating system.  If not, nevermind.

[TrashMan]

I got HDClone

Tomorrow I'm gonna try the old disk copy procedure and their attempt a repair on the copy with TestDisk...

[Descenterace]

And the funny thing is that Linux has a utility installed by default that will do this quite happily.

dd if=[source] of=[dest]