Hawkins Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Anyone know where I can get my hands on a good hard drive cloning utility? I want to take my main hard drive, and just clone it. It's perfect, just slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beeTee Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 I have never heard of this (haven't heard of LOTS of things I see here in the Forums ), Is this different than an image of a drive?? like from Norton Ghost. I ask, cause I've destroyed my computer one time to many last month, and want to be able to use some utility to do this? Reinstalling Windows, drivers, applications, data is a venture I can do without again in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Cloning and imaging are synonymous terms. Symantec Ghost, PowerQuest Drive Image, PowerQuest Drive Copy will do this for you. The least expensive of these is Drive Copy. Drive Image has an embedded version of Drive Copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theHammer Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Scot has recommended Paragon for imaging; the big guys are Semantic's Ghost and Power Quests Drive Image -- and no, it is not hard, simple menu choices as to what you want to image and where you want to place it. I use such a backup system but keep my OS in a small partition, my programs and data in another so that I can image only the OS accepting the fact that I will have to reinstall programs if I do resort to a very old image.Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoepie Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Recently I discovered this cloning program, and it can do much more than cloning alone. One of my friends is testing this Russian-made (English language) program. It looks promissing and it's FREEWARE but:[warningbox]he thinks there might be copyright violations involved: the so called VolkovCommander is actually (my beloved) Norton Commander![/warningbox][extrawarningbox]also the site contains some nasty ugly banners[/extrawarningbox] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b2cm Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 I'm a fan of Powerquest. But I prefer Norton Ghost for cloning partitions or entire drives. I never had problems with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomBox Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Two new players on the market are *The AcronisTrueImage and *The BootIt NG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rons Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 If you just want to copy your old disk to a newer one, use one of the free applications that all hard disk manufactures provide. I have used the Maxtor utility before and it worked perfect. [One drive must be a Maxtor drive to use their software]. However, all of the other manufactures have something similar.Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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