shanenin Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I got a job fixing a computer for the beauty salon my wife works at. As a precaution to not losing any data, I would like to make a perfect bootable copy of the harddrive on a spare I have. What would a reliable, possibly free(or inexpensoive) utility be to do this. If I made a mistake on the original harddrive, i would like to be able to just put my copy of the harddrive in and boot it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
il_wiccan Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 (edited) I got a job fixing a computer for the beauty salon my wife works at. As a precaution to not losing any data, I would like to make a perfect bootable copy of the harddrive on a spare I have. What would a reliable, possibly free(or inexpensoive) utility be to do this. If I made a mistake on the original harddrive, i would like to be able to just put my copy of the harddrive in and boot it.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>There are about a million of them but I know someone who uses this one Cobain Backup 7Forgot to mention this is shareware...... Edited September 2, 2005 by il_wiccan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted September 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 that looks like a nice program to keep a backed up copy of files. I was looking for a more simple way to copy a whole drive. I thought windows may even have a utilty in it that would maybe do this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 (edited) I don't know of any reliable free image backup utilities. Usually when you buy a new retail hard drive it will come with a software disk to image your drive.These are the only pay programs that I have heard of that work decent.Acronis True Image 8.0Symantec’s Norton Ghost 9.0 Edited September 2, 2005 by TheTerrorist_75 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skeet6961 Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I got a job fixing a computer for the beauty salon my wife works at. As a precaution to not losing any data, I would like to make a perfect bootable copy of the harddrive on a spare I have. What would a reliable, possibly free(or inexpensoive) utility be to do this. If I made a mistake on the original harddrive, i would like to be able to just put my copy of the harddrive in and boot it.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>symantec also has drive image thru their powerquest aquistion. not sure they sitll produce or support it but i've always preferred it to ghost. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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