Good hard drive "ghosting" software?

[SammyBoy]

I have a Dell hard drive that is failing on me, and they are willing to replace the drive (they came over to my house and dropped off the exact same drive), but they are not willing to move the data over from the first HDD to the new one for me. Does anyone know any good programs that will make an exact copy of the first (Failing) hdd (its still functional atm but is claiming it has errors, etc., and needs to be replaced) and clone it onto the second one so I can just remove the first one and plug in the second one and it will all work like nothing ever happened?


Freeware preferred, although I have a very limited amount of time here before Dell demands I send them a drive back so non-freeware is okay too.

Thanks.

 

[loup garou]

um...Ghost?

 

[C'DaleRider]

Originally posted by: werk
um...Ghost?

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: C'DaleRider

Originally posted by: werk
um...Ghost?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: GhettoFob

Originally posted by: C'DaleRider

Originally posted by: werk
um...Ghost?

 

[FoBoT]

don't buy powerquest, but Symantec/Ghost bought them anyway, so i think your choices are very limited

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: GhettoFob

Originally posted by: C'DaleRider

Originally posted by: werk
um...Ghost?

 

[RossMAN]

Another vote for Norton Ghost.

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: GhettoFob

Originally posted by: C'DaleRider

Originally posted by: werk
um...Ghost?

I've used ghost and drive image, both worked fine for me

 

[BurnItDwn]

Haven't used any recently, but back in the windows 3.1 and dos 6 days, Norton Ghost was king.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: GhettoFob

Originally posted by: C'DaleRider

Originally posted by: werk
um...what?

um...Ghost?

 

[chibchakan]

Look here, most are free to try. Good luck.

 

[LAUST]

Norton Ghost 2003 works great for single users, we use Ghost Corp edition 8 at my work and it's wonderful. No problems at all.

 

[Cable God]

V2i Protector by Symantec (was originally powerquest). Get the trial and see the difference. Ghost makes you reboot. V2i does not. You can do a base inage, and then daily or weekly incremental images. Writes directly to a DVD-+/R/RW as well as network shares. You can image from the console on a server or from your PC. We use it here on or LAN instead of Ghost. We did use Ghost Enterprise, but ditched it as soon as V2i Protector came out. WAY worth the money in comparison to Ghost. Plus the server version, just like the workstation version, does hot backups while the server is still up. We have live Oracle DB's doing transaction processing while backing up to image at the same time.

 

[ROcHE]

Acronis True Image

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Find brand
Go to brand's website
Download programs

Use programs to boot from floppy with their programs which wil let you transfer all files.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: GhettoFob

Originally posted by: C'DaleRider

Originally posted by: werk
um...Ghost?

 

[Paulson]

Norton Ghost!

 

[Joemonkey]

go here

download the ISO

burn it to CD

boot to CD

use g4u