tinmann Posted January 28, 2013 Member ID: 3821 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 17 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 158 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 52 Achievement Points: 1050 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/20/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 01:04 AM Birthday: 04/20/1972 Device: Windows Posted January 28, 2013 I never cloned a hard drive before.. I just want to know what is the best program to use? Awards
Merlin007 Posted January 29, 2013 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1139 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 8605 Content Per Day: 1.62 Reputation: 7574 Achievement Points: 76834 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 6 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted January 29, 2013 Well, if you are running Windows 7 you can use the built in utility to create a disk image. I did this and found it to work quite well so go with this if you are running 7. If you are not running Windows 7, then there is a lot of software from free stuff to paid. Comes down to preference and features. Outside of Windows 7, I have also used Acronis True Image which I thought worked well and does a lot more than I need but I have a handful of PCs and laptops in my home network so I can set up a backup on several machines over the network and save the image to my server. For a simple solution, you can check out software like WinImage http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm or Clonezilla http://clonezilla.org/. tinmann, Astronomer and simplemod 3 Awards
KaptCrunch Posted January 29, 2013 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 353 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5199 Content Per Day: 0.90 Reputation: 4453 Achievement Points: 41746 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 71 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 6 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted January 29, 2013 NOTE: arconis is offered by your drive manufactor under thier tools for free WARNING don't use another manufactors tools on different brand drive ...keep same brand as your clone drive tinmann 1 Awards
tinmann Posted January 29, 2013 Member ID: 3821 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 17 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 158 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 52 Achievement Points: 1050 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/20/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 01:04 AM Birthday: 04/20/1972 Device: Windows Author Posted January 29, 2013 Thank you for the input! I have 3 machines one on xp one has vista and this one has 7 on it Awards
hxtr Posted January 30, 2013 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.93 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted January 30, 2013 I never cloned a hard drive before.. I just want to know what is the best program to use? send me a PM with your Email address. I have just what you need. It is in a ISO format so you just burn to a dvd or cd. Very easy and works like a charm. or you can email me direct at [email protected]
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