hdd clone using usb boot stick

robert.brookes@ · 6 Jan 2009 at 22:36

is thhere any of the disk imaging software available that can use a usb pen drive to back up and restor a disk image??

want try windows 7 on my main pc but i have only recently just reforted to vista and dont want have go through it all again

chiggz · 6 Jan 2009 at 22:58

i use acronis

should work exactly as you want

P_A_N_I_C · 6 Jan 2009 at 23:32

as long as you make the stick bootable, u can put ghost or acronis on it no probs.

bledd · 7 Jan 2009 at 11:18

acronis can make it bootable for you, using its bootable media creator wizard

robert.brookes@ · 7 Jan 2009 at 20:57

thanks guys will give it a pop

alrready got a boot usb pen for things like bios flasing and backtrack, will try acronis thanks fellas

nrh1703 · 8 Jan 2009 at 22:58

gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net) works a treat for this kind of thing too and it's free. It can be booted off a cd or usb drive. An older version is also included on knoppix distributions.

I recently used it to shrink the vista partition on my laptop and then migrate an sbs server from two drives to a raid6 array. Both jobs worked flawlessly.

bledd · 9 Jan 2009 at 08:44

^i'm sure you're aware of this and probably just misread the title

but gparted is for partitioning, not imaging, but it is great

partedmagic is another awesome tool that contains gparted, and more

robert.brookes@ · 13 Jan 2009 at 07:54

worked a treat guys even worked loaded sata drivers

tryed windows 7 then went back to vista an hour later lol