What's a good software for creating an image of my HDD?

[fyleow]

..

 

[Baked]

True Image 9 for $30 @ newegg.com

 

[Sid59]

the new hard drive should come with a cd that will copy the contents from the old drive to the new.

 

[Praetor]

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda2

 

[xcript]

DriveImage XML

 

[LoverBoyJ]

Ghost Rules!!!
[/putting on flame suit] ok flame on! LOL🙂:laugh:

 

[corkyg]

TrueImage 9 shoves Ghost right out the door - always has. 🙂 It has a function that creates you a bootable CD with the full program on it, and then you can by pass the Windows OS. Then you CLONE the old drive to the new drive using the PROPORTIONAL setting and everything will be bit-by-bit put on the new drive exactly where it is supposed to be, and is immediately bootable with no image restoration needed. Think CLONE - not image.

 

[LoverBoyJ]

Ghost has been able to do that since I used it (4yrs ago). They have a bootable disk (DOS based) to image your HD without touching Windows.

 

[corkyg]

No doubt - but it is still a blood sucking Symantec product. 🙂 How does it do on RAID arrays? Firewire and USB externals? SCSI? Speed?

 

[fyleow]

..

 

[razibhasan]

I like Acronis True Image 9. That works great for me 🙂

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: LoverBoyJ
Ghost has been able to do that since I used it (4yrs ago). They have a bootable disk (DOS based) to image your HD without touching Windows.

Ghost was awesome back in the day, but it's terrible now. Complicated HDD arrays cause it to choke and die. It rendered my PC unbootable a year ago. I have my IDE drives plugged into a PCI controller and my optical drives plugged into the onboard IDE controller. I added a SATA drive and wanted to clone the IDE drive to the SATA drive. Ghost went through the motions fine in Windows, but upon rebooting into DOS, it refused to run, putting my computer in an unbootable state that took me about a day to fix.

TrueImage did the drive clone in about two hours.