Need a disk imaging / cloning program

Ben333

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• Aug 31, 2010

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Don't want to use linux, don't want to use a boot floppy, don't want to use a boot CD.

My DOS box has a 160 MB SCSI hard drive, the other day I pulled a 2 GB SCSI drive from another box. I'd like to use a machine with windows XP to: Put the disk in. Image it to a file. Put new disk in. Burn image to disk.

I have an XP box with a SCSI card and tried manually copying all the files but it wouldn't boot. What is a windows program that can get done what I need done?

By the way, I could have used a boot disk but don't want to bother (plus I can't seem to put both drives on the same card at the same time and can't find jumper settings).

 

hafa

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• Aug 31, 2010

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Acronis True Image should do the trick.

 

TollhouseFrank

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• Aug 31, 2010

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driveimagexml is another goodie

 

Wathnix

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• Aug 31, 2010

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I use Acronis True Image Home all the time

 

TempliNocturnus

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• Aug 31, 2010

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ImageX utility from MS WAIK. It's free and it works well for capturing NTFS-formated disks. It's command line but there is a GUI called GImageX.

 

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Psycogeec

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• Aug 31, 2010

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if you have a WD drive dont forget you can get a WDacronis that is just enough to clone and image for free at western Digital downlaods. <-- cheapskate . although i still prefer to use acronis via its CD boot disk because of all the unnessisary stuff added to do it via the OS

norton Ghost will do it too, but the new improvements to ghost arent improvements IMO.

 

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Ben333

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• Sep 1, 2010

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hafa said:

Acronis True Image should do the trick.

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Thanks, forgot this was free for users of WD drives... Might have to put it on my 7 box. I'll feel funny accessing a 160MB hard drive from Windows 7, heh.

 

Redstone

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• Sep 5, 2010

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Ben333 said:

Thanks, forgot this was free for users of WD drives... Might have to put it on my 7 box. I'll feel funny accessing a 160MB hard drive from Windows 7, heh.

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Could you provide a link to the free download? Didnt see it mentioned anywhere on thier website.

 

ratbuddy

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• Sep 5, 2010

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Redstone said:

Could you provide a link to the free download? Didnt see it mentioned anywhere on thier website.

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Go to their site. Click downloads from the support drop down menu. Find your drive. Done.

 

Jmtyra

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• Sep 5, 2010

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Might have already been mentioned, but here are the two I have bookmarked:
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
http://www.todo-backup.com/download/

 

Magicuser

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• Sep 14, 2010

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Ive used Acronis True Image seems to work fine for me.

 

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• Sep 18, 2010

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Magicuser said:

Ive used Acronis True Image seems to work fine for me.

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I love Acronis. It has saved my life so many times.

 

Wathnix

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• Sep 18, 2010

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find out what brand of hard drive you have and visit the manufacturers web site, they will have an imaging program you can download for free and it is usually a brand restricted version of Acronis. I.E. you must have a seagate brand drive installed to use the imaging program off their website, but it will work on any other drive in your computer as long as you have at least one drive that is seagate.