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Imaging Drive in Win8?

Chiefcrowe

Chiefcrowe

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Is there a built in way to make a complete image of your hard drive in windows 8 that you could restore using a boot CD?
 
Read Custom recovery image in Windows 8 for a thorough rundown on all available Windows 8 built-in options for imaging (be sure to follow the links in the article as well). Personally I'd just use the freeware EaseUS Disk Copy personal edition and create a traditional bootable clone.


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Did you check this method out? I used the Windows 7 File Recovery method to make nice images on my Win 8 machine. Created the needed System Repair Disk. Booted to the repair disk and could not see the drives.

I would suggest neither the method linked or the Windows 7 File Recovery methods are very useful. I want an image that is reliable and reproduces the disk software with all settings intact. Reflect works well.
 
Briefly looked it over but haven't gotten to test it yet.

So Macrium Reflect works well on Win8? Haven't tested that either myself.
 
Macrium Reflect Free Edition works perfectly on Windows 8. I have had better results with it than the paid Acronis True Image 2013 which is really buggy in the 2013 edition
 
Chiefcrowe, sent you a PM. I strongly advise using the WinPE version of making the Reflect recovery media though. The Linux version didn't work for me.
 
berryracer said:
Macrium Reflect Free Edition works perfectly on Windows 8. I have had better results with it than the paid Acronis True Image 2013 which is really buggy in the 2013 edition
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Interesting, I use them both Never had a problem with True Image 2013. Its advantage is that it is much faster.

Since time is money I rather pay the $39 for TI.



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I use the built in image utility in Win 7 and 8. Never had an issue with either, and have used them dozens of times. But unlike the link above sates, you must store the image on a separate drive. Restoring the image from the recovery CD overwrites the drive.

If it doesn't see the drives, you need to load a driver. Not an issue with Intel controllers.
 
JackMDS said:
Interesting, I use them both Never had a problem with True Image 2013. Its advantage is that it is much faster.

Since time is money I rather pay the $39 for TI.



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I've been using Acronis True Image for years don't get me wrong I used to swear by this product...

The incident happened a couple of months back.

I had Acronis True Image 2011 (perfectly fine)

Now when I tried to install Windows 8, I had to upgrade to 2013 as 2011 wasn't compatible.

every now and then, when I right click on an icon, explorer.exe would freeze then crash on me until I reboot.

I thought it was Start 8 causing this since it modifies the UI a little bit...

Tried many things but got sick of it so I returned to Windows 7 with Acronis True Image 2011.

Coincidently, my friend in Denmark was having that same right click problem as I did on Windows 8, everytime he right clicks a file Explorer.exe would crash on him until he reboots. We tried a lot of trouble shooting then I noticed that he had upgraded from Acronis True Image 2011 to 2013. The moment I adviced him to uninstall it and go back to 2011 the problem went away.

That's 2 diff. systems on numerous formats...

And if you read other forums especially My Digital Life Forums, you will see how many people bitch about the 2013 version of Acronis
 
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