- Nov 22, 2008
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I have been using SSD for a while now and havent backed it up or imaged it yet. As they have a higher rate of failure I wanted to back it up and was loooking for a good free software.
Here's what I would like it to do.
Take and image of the drive (ofcourse) but the restoration should be something like - I boot from its CD (or a CD created by it) point it to the (new/fixed) SSD, point it to the image file stored on another HDD on the same comp and that's it.
One thing though, my primary hdd is partitioned, although I would prefer to keep it that way when its restored, but I do have a question about how these image restoration work. When I restore, will it make the exact same partitions or it doesn't matter. Can I image the 40GB OS partition only and then reformat the SSD and restore it on a new 60 GB partition?
I do not require incremental backup or scheduling ability or any of the other good stuff, need a clean simple and robust program. Please recommend.
Here's what I would like it to do.
Take and image of the drive (ofcourse) but the restoration should be something like - I boot from its CD (or a CD created by it) point it to the (new/fixed) SSD, point it to the image file stored on another HDD on the same comp and that's it.
One thing though, my primary hdd is partitioned, although I would prefer to keep it that way when its restored, but I do have a question about how these image restoration work. When I restore, will it make the exact same partitions or it doesn't matter. Can I image the 40GB OS partition only and then reformat the SSD and restore it on a new 60 GB partition?
I do not require incremental backup or scheduling ability or any of the other good stuff, need a clean simple and robust program. Please recommend.