I have to make an exact copy (ghost) of my hard drive. What free program can I use?

[jaffa]

I want to make an exact copy of my hard drive and don't have access to any of the commercial programs available (Symantec Ghost etc.).

Therefore I wonder if there are any freeware/shareware available online that I can use instead...

 

[StevenYoo]

might be something here for you

 

[John]

Your hard drive mfg. will have tools on their website.

Examples:
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?swid=1

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxto...ndMax%20Family/Utilities&downloadID=58

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html

 

[o2brew]

Acronis Trueimage has a free 15 day trial. That's what I used recently when moved to a new hard drive.

 

[Jasiek]

Let's just say i have 70gb worth of stuff on my HDD, can i ghost that on one CD?

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Jasiek
Let's just say i have 70gb worth of stuff on my HDD, can i ghost that on one CD?

Ugh, no.

 

[bruceb]

Even if you used DVD's they are limited to about 4.6GB in storage .. When you run Ghost or Truimage it will tell you how large the Image file will be ... some of these programs let you specify Low, Fast, or High Compression ... resulting image file will vary accordingly .. Low=Biggest File, High=Smallest File, Fast=size between Low & High ... Note: High will take more time to run

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

Let's just say i have 70gb worth of stuff on my HDD, can i ghost that on one CD?

Sure, you can stack that up next to all your dvd's you put on floppys.