New Laptop: i need to image the HDD

[MrGenie]

hi all,
first of all, i bought a new laptop with no OS on it. Using the winxp CD i always had to install the OS, i was faced by "HDD not detected by the setup". I didnt know what that was since its my first SATA installation. later i realized that and got a winxp CD that recognizes the SATA HDD. and the isntallation went OK. I did various upates and installed other applications. Since the laptop didnt have its own rebuild disk, i decided to create one. my thing is what would be the BEST options to create a bootable image of my HDD that will work with my SATA disks?


thanks.

 

[takeru]

acronis true image

 

[QuixoticOne]

And here it is free as a beta if you feel
like being a tester:
http://www.acronis.com/homecom...a-testing/atiHome2009/
http://www.acronis.com/homecom...2009/registration.html

Originally posted by: takeru
acronis true image

 

[MrGenie]

thanks guys..
for takeru... which version will best suite me provided that im not going beta... thanks quixotic

 

[corkyg]

If you are imaging or cloning a Vista drive, you need TI version 11, build 8053 or newer. That is not Beta. XP works with just about any version from 9 on.

I clone my notebook's SATA HDD regularly by connecting an external eSATA drive to a eSATA PCMCIA adapter, and booting with the Acronis created rescue media. Takes about 30 minutes to fully clone a 200 GB SATA drive in the laptop.

 

[montag451]

Some of the hard drive manufacturers use Acronis TrueImage as their FREE cloning software.
Its rebadged, but its still the same engine.
Its free on their sites!!!!

Just make sure you have one of their drives in your machine - doesn't have to be one that your are cloning to/from.

 

[Randum]

wow was just going to post asking for imaging software, my desktop HD is going really slow and i wanted to move my main drive over to another HD, perfect! now lets hope it works flawlessly...

 

[sourceninja]

clonezilla will do it no problems as well.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
clonezilla will do it no problems as well.

I just backup up my laptop with this, and it gave me an error, saying I should run chkdesk. That would be fine, but it didn't say which drive it had a problem with.

It's also not for newbs, because it uses unix names for the drives. It explains which is which, but so did the software used to upgrade Tivos. If I had a dollar for every person I knew who messed that up.....

 

[0roo0roo]

xml drive image is free