Drive imaging?

scoop · 4 Dec 2006 at 14:27

Apologies if this should be in Software, not here, but this seemed more appropriate.

Just re-installed the PC and am now looking to create disk images of it in it's current form. Can anyone reccomend a good, freeware/shareware drive imaging utility? Ideally, it'd be reliable, restorable from a boot disk and happily span the burn across multiple DVDs.

Found several options on Google, but would prefer to use a recommended package before comitting my data to it........

rpstewart · 4 Dec 2006 at 14:45

Ghost is the usual option but I have a feeling that one of the drive manufacturers has something similar for free but it may only do drive to drive.

Personally I don't bother, anything that needs configured is stashed on the backup HDD so just gets restored from there. I can however take two days to reinstall everything without the wife, kids, gineau pigs etc complaining

scoop · 4 Dec 2006 at 16:00

rpstewart said:
gineau pigs etc

Is that one of those new water-powered rodents?

rpstewart · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:46

No it's someone who can't spell and is too busy to look it up....

Tosk · 4 Dec 2006 at 18:00

i would use ghost or true image

but there not free :/

1 tip for ghost is make sure you do a restore from partition to selected partition. as if you don't do it that way then it merges the partition on the same drive

making you lose all data on a backed up partition