Disk Image software

Gman · 8 Jun 2009 at 19:27

i'm wanting to take an image of my hard disk (os and files) so I can swap the hard disk and drop everything on the new one without reinstalling windows etc.

Whats the best software to do is ?

in the past i've used norton ghost but that was a long time back

cheers

binaryknight · 8 Jun 2009 at 19:31

acronis true image is a good piece of software

theheyes · 8 Jun 2009 at 19:36

Clonezilla is pretty good and free but nowhere near as friendly as Acronis or Ghost. If you don't mind paying I'd go with one of the Acronis products.

Gman · 8 Jun 2009 at 20:12

thanks for the suggestion guys, bit too late though

the drive just died a clicking death. managed to backup most things but it looks like my evenings going consist of an xp install now.

Macky · 8 Jun 2009 at 20:34

What kind of discs you using? Blu-ray? Whatever the case, you could try something like magic ISO and then IMG BURN.

swinnie · 8 Jun 2009 at 22:41

Gman said:
thanks for the suggestion guys, bit too late though the drive just died a clicking death. managed to backup most things but it looks like my evenings going consist of an xp install now.

Would've probably got corrupted sectors on the image, if the drive was failing.

Acronis, though!

bledd · 9 Jun 2009 at 09:50

Macky said:
What kind of discs you using? Blu-ray? Whatever the case, you could try something like magic ISO and then IMG BURN.

failure to read the thread

miniyazz · 9 Jun 2009 at 21:01

You can tell Acronis to ignore corrupted sectors I think