Any free alternatives to Clonezilla? For windows system images.

[BirdDad]

I am looking for backup of my computers, Acronis refuses to load because there are TrueCrypt drives present, and Clonezilla spits out a bunch of errors on every system I try. I need one that can backup to DL blu-rays at better than 1x speed(preferably 6x as I make a lot of backups). What are my options? Must be a bootable CD/DVD(Live).

 

[BirdDad]

and I need one that will handle a usb3.0 blu-ray 6x as some of these are laptops

 

[ultimatebob]

Did you try one of the alternate Clonezilla .ISO's here?

http://clonezilla.org/downloads/download.php?branch=alternative

They're based off of Ubuntu, and supposedly have better hardware compatibility.

Likewise, you could always try the 32 bit version vs. the 64 bit version. The extra memory support in the 64 bit version isn't really going to help you with disk imaging performance since you're disk IO bound anyway.