Harddrive Image Software?

[soundbox]

Hi All

Any free software available to image your harddrive?

Thanks.

 

[nivek]

Windows?
Try winpe + imagex

If you want sector copy I think theres an opensource version of ghost

 

[LazyLion]

Disk Cloning is in the news...
http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iArticleId=4308383

that article is recommending Clonezilla...
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/

But here is another article looking at the best of the disk cloning tools...
(Clonezilla is top of their list too)...
http://packratstudios.com/index.php...ghost-who-a-list-of-open-source-alternatives/

They are as follows...
Ping...
http://ping.windowsdream.com/
PartImage...
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page
g4u...
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
linbox...
http://lrs.linbox.org/
and FOG...
http://freeghost.no-ip.org/

Free Disk Imaging/Cloning Software...
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
http://www.clonezilla.org/
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/xxclone.html
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/download.html
http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

 

[soundbox]

Thank you Guys!

 

[ponder]

Do you want to image the drive or clone it? There is a difference.

 

[Gnome]

I've used clone-zilla, would recommend it, awesome program. Just for straight imaging where I don't mind power user interaction I just use dd. Versions of dd exist for all operating systems. It's even widely used in forensics because you can pretty much make a bit accurate image of any media (including RAM).

 

[carstro]

I've used clone-zilla, would recommend it, awesome program. Just for straight imaging where I don't mind power user interaction I just use dd. Versions of dd exist for all operating systems. It's even widely used in forensics because you can pretty much make a bit accurate image of any media (including RAM).

Really usefull,also for me,thank you

 

[ponder]

Really usefull,also for me,thank you

Just be careful with the likes of dd, ddrescue & dd_rescue. Confusing the drives (which is not to hard in linux) will make you cry.

 

[K T]

I swear by Acronis True Image, never used anything else.

 

[Dan C]

I swear by Acronis True Image, never used anything else.

Yeah me too, been using it for ages ... think earlier versions were of free of charge, just not sure where to find it now.

 

[Arthur]

Yeah me too, been using it for ages ... think earlier versions were of free of charge, just not sure where to find it now.

Acronis True Image is not a free program and never has been. The latest version - Acronis True Image Home 2011 - can be bought for $49.99 with credit card off the Acronis website here. They also have corporate versions for servers and workstations, and even Linux, called Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. Local disti is Synapsys.