Personal computing discussed
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JustAnEngineer wrote:If at least one of your two drives is a Western Digital, the free version of Acronis True Image will do what you want to do. I actually picked up the full version of the Acronis package from Newegg for $15 in a combination deal a few months ago.
Ryu Connor wrote:ImageX from the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)
Avoids the resizing issues as it is not a sector clone it is a file copy.
just brew it! wrote:IIRC Acronis does it that way as well.
XorCist wrote:not to hijack this thread, but i need to clone my own drive (seagate) which has unrecoverable sectors, will any of the clone solutions listed above be able to copy what is copy-able (is that even a word?)
Starfalcon wrote:I have a person who had some computer issues, turns out she had windows 7 on a 80 gig drive that was almost completely filled, only about 200MB left. Looks like windows was running out of virtual memory space and locking up. I am going to replace the drive, and just need to copy the whole drive over to a new one, as I don't have the install media and she has stuff she doesn't want to loose...and it isn't backed up. So I need a recommendation of a free, good drive clone software to transfer it over to the new hard drive.
XorCist wrote:not to hijack this thread, but i need to clone my own drive (seagate) which has unrecoverable sectors, will any of the clone solutions listed above be able to copy what is copy-able(is that even a word?) even with the bad sectors?
Steel wrote:Instead of dinking around with third party image software, use the built in backup to make a system image and create a recovery CD when it prompts you. You can then resize the restored partition afterwards using Disk Management.
vince wrote:Steel wrote:Instead of dinking around with third party image software, use the built in backup to make a system image and create a recovery CD when it prompts you. You can then resize the restored partition afterwards using Disk Management.
+1. I did this to upgrade my C: drive twice, worked like a charm.
flip-mode wrote:And it works on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008. Other tools to image Windows Servers are typically $800 or more, but R-Drive Image is $45 or there about.
Ryu Connor wrote:flip-mode wrote:And it works on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008. Other tools to image Windows Servers are typically $800 or more, but R-Drive Image is $45 or there about.
At least with Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 ImageX is a free solution for it.
just brew it! wrote:You kids and your fancy new-fangled Windows 7 Disk Management... back in the day, we had to resize partitions the *hard* way!
1313andrewx wrote:I use EASEUS Disk Copy to clone my HDD for backup purposes... I also used it to transfer my system data to a bigger HDD, from 500 GB to 1.5TB It is SLOW but it does the job for me...(NOTE: I used the older version, it seems that the new version only supports HDDs upto 1TB...haven't tried the new one)
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/
mghong wrote:is there any software which are free and able to clone my old disk to a new disk ?
just brew it! wrote:You kids and your fancy new-fangled Windows 7 Disk Management... back in the day, we had to resize partitions the *hard* way!
thegleek wrote:mghong wrote:is there any software which are free and able to clone my old disk to a new disk ?
Yes, Clonezilla - the ultimate best FREE hard drive clone software in the WORLD. Nothing else even remotely comes close!
PenGun wrote:"dd is your friend" Linus Torvalds
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1
Straight up block by block clone.