Best software to clone entire hard drive?

[jakobkraft]

We had 2 drives crash on us and need some kind of cloning software to prevent this from happening again.
Any ideas? Thanks🙂

 

[Homerboy]

same topic different day... asked over and over

Acronis TrueImage or Migrate Easy depending on exactly what you are looking to do here.

 

[homercles337]

How about free?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: homercles337
How about free?

Look and see if your disk manufacturer has something for download off their website.

 

[jakobkraft]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Acronis TrueImage or Migrate Easy depending on exactly what you are looking to do here.

Looking to make bootable CD that is a mirror of entire drive...?

 

[NightCrawler]

Originally posted by: jakobkraft

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Acronis TrueImage or Migrate Easy depending on exactly what you are looking to do here.

Looking to make bootable CD that is a mirror of entire drive...?

It does all that accept I don't think it makes the cd bootable, but you can create a bootable master cd.

 

[NightCrawler]

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/comparison.html

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: NightCrawler
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/comparison.html

Hrm, why is this being recommended over ghost?

 

[NightCrawler]

Originally posted by: warcrow

Originally posted by: NightCrawler
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/comparison.html

Hrm, why is this being recommended over ghost?

The latest Ghost is really based on drive image 7 which was totally bloated and completely different from Drive Image 6 which was really good.

I've used Drive Image 6, 7 and Ghost 2003. I admit I haven't used ghost 9.0 but since it's based on Drive Image 7 and that was unbelievable bloated and silly compared with drive Image 6, I just can't recommned it.

Problems with Drive Image 7:

1. requires .net
2. require at least 256 megs of ram
3. didn't always work right
4. require a special recovery disc

Ghost 9.0 might have fixed all the bugs that were in Drive Image when they aquired Powerquest but really Acronis True Image is the better app today.

 

[NightCrawler]

read other users reviews: http://pcworld.pricegrabber.com/rating_...drev.php/product_id=3738977/id_type=M/

 

[suklee]

Another vote for Acronis TrueImage. > Ghost

 

[John]

I run ghost 2003 from a floppy and it works like a champ.

 

[Caminetto]

Originally posted by: John
I run ghost 2003 from a floppy and it works like a champ.

:thumbsup:

 

[corkyg]

Acronis TrueImage 8 - hands down. Symantec is a cannibalistic bloodsucker. 🙂