What's a good stand alone Drive Image program?

Lancelot

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• Mar 1, 2007

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I'm looking for a good drive image program that runs from a bootable CD-ROM, thus completely bypassing the OS. Anyone?!

 

corruption

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• Mar 2, 2007

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At work whenever we need to copy a customer's hard drive, whether it's starting to fail or they want to move to a larger drive, we use a bootable Ghost cd. I hate to recommend a Symantec product, but you can make a bootable Ghost cd or floppy disk that will clone a drive and it works quite well.

(I'm a computer electronics technician btw, which would explain my need to clone someone else's HD. lol)

 

LiveSideways

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• Mar 2, 2007

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I'd highly recommend Acronis Disk Manager. If your in the scene get something called 'Hiren's boot', its an awesome all in one utility disc.

PS I vote -1 for ghost, had it fail pointlessly so many times.

 

schnikies79

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• Mar 2, 2007

• #4

Another vote for acronis!

 

Neuromancer

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• Mar 2, 2007

• #5

Another acronis vote

 

redduc900

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• Mar 3, 2007

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DriveImage XML V1.21
http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

WinPE/BartPE Support (Run our programs from a boot CD-ROM)

http://www.runtime.org/peb.htm

DriveImage XML V1.21 plugin ...under "Available Plugins". Click on the V1.21 plugin link, and then read the instructions on how to install it... further down the page.

 

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• Mar 3, 2007

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Acronis is the best. It takes less than 5 mins to back up my whole C: partition.