disc cloning software

shatpank81

shatpank81

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hi
after a bit of advice regarding disk cloning software.
i currently use i think its the first ever version of symantec Ghost - on a floppy disk :D

but i have noticed that lately when cloning Windows 7/Windows 8 drives that it falls over on the slightest thing.

dont mind paying for the software, because frankly i think my company has defo had their monies worth out of Ghost, although if there is a free version of something that someone can recommend would be good.

but i need one that i can boot from, because a lot of the time i only clone/copy hard drives that fail and i try to recover them.

thanks
 
I use Clonezilla for as my method for cloning disks at work seeing as all our PC's are identical. The only downside is that you can't go down in size in terms of disk, regardless of how much data there actually is. However you can put an image on a larger disk and then use Windows disk manager to use the remaining space.
 
Macrium Reflect.

Even the free version works fine and can make bootable media (USB/CD, either Linux-based or WindowsPE-based). The only thing most will use that's not in the free version is incremental backups (though they may work in the bootable media), though there is 'differential backups', which I think is a less efficient version of incremental backups.

Personally I use the paid-version as I do make heavy use of incremental backups, and I usually use the desktop client, though I've also made a customised version of the WindowsPE media which maps my network drives.
 
sorry forgot i made this thread :D

thanks will look into those, i did put clonezilla but couldnt get it to boot, perhaps it was a dodgy cd/image
 
Stoner81 said:
I use Acronis True Image at work and that works pretty well and it is easy to use.

Stoner81.
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Also depending on what hard drives from what manufacturers are installed in the specific computer most of them have drive imaging software available that is based off Acronis and (you have to install the program first) you can also create a boot CD to use the tools without having to run the OS.
 
Here at work we use Acronis Snap Deploy from a bootable CD or USB, which ever one I haven't misplaced.
 
Macrium. I used to use clonezilla, but it doesn't always play nicely with boot sectors, BCD etc - Macrium has never let me down.
 
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