Best free disk imaging software (ability to boot from flash)?

[JerryMungo]

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[millennia]

That sounds like a long and tedious way to do it. Just use Clonezilla and do a disk to disk clone

https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone

 

[Dan C]

Acronis is the best, but not free. Not sure if the free trial will do it for you.

 

[Dan C]

A kind forumite has offered a copy he got with a new drive, holding thumbs!

Cool. Acronis will definitely be able to do what you want. I've been using it for years.

 

[Dairyfarmer]

Macrium https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
It's not free after 30 days but i often use it when changing HDD for SSD.

Many drives come with access to free imaging software (normally Acronis). Check on the manufacturer's website.

 

[Park@82]

Macrium https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

I also use this.

 

[newby_investor]

Acronis has free editions depending on the brand of new drive you buy. I used a free edition with my WD drive a few months back.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Any Linux

dd if=old drive/partition of=new drive/partition or img

https://www.tecmint.com/clone-linux-partitions/

 

[Gardagar]

Take a look on what I have found lately here, there is really seven dedicated utilities which will really help you with creating bootable image on the flash, windows wise and all others as well really - https://techwiser.com/usb-bootable-software/