best (free) image software

magicroundabout · 22 Mar 2012 at 07:29

i'm wanting to move my SSD from my PC into my Macbook and place my moments XT into my PC but want to know what is the best free image burning software so i can instal the drive and then image it so it's as it was before.

Anyone got any recommendations

anything I don't mind · 22 Mar 2012 at 09:45

clonezilla, copy it on to a usb stick and use a portable usb drive to create the image. Realy simple. probably find guides on youtube or google.

Philtor · 22 Mar 2012 at 11:15

Macrium reflect free is excellent.

magicroundabout · 22 Mar 2012 at 18:28

philtor said:
Macrium reflect free is excellent.

i've just used this but am unsure how i would use the image to restore windows from?
Unless Win7 recognises .mrimg files

djkav · 22 Mar 2012 at 18:41

Is there an option to create a rescue boot disk. That usually loads a basic front end that you can restore from your back up image.

magicroundabout · 22 Mar 2012 at 20:27

I think it does. Sweet. I'll read up a bit more before I go ahead with it so I'm confident with what I'm doing

Philtor · 22 Mar 2012 at 23:21

Yeah you can create a boot disk from within the program.

magicroundabout · 23 Mar 2012 at 07:44

philtor said:
Yeah you can create a boot disk from within the program.

excellent cheers

thenewoc · 23 Mar 2012 at 08:33

2nd clonezilla. Only used it to create images so far but i believe you can use it with a boot menu / restore partition, thats what i need to look into next.