stevie_b Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 What do you use for hard disk / partition imaging? I've used Ghost in the past but my copy of it (2002 edition I think) won't work with Vista without a hack. Whilst I'm not averse to hacking, when you're trying to recover all your work by restoring an image is not the time to do it! So, are there any good freeware alternatives that people have come across? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Knoppix boot CD and the dd command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_mcevoy Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Acronis do a good range that we use in Work for PC imaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 How about the newer versions of ghost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted April 21, 2008 Author Share Posted April 21, 2008 How about the newer versions of ghost That's certainly an option. I've found Ghost (2002 and earlier) to be easy to use and fairly stable, but I get the impression that Norton/Symantec products are getting more and more "bloaty" and overly complex as time goes on. They used to produce some cracking tools a few years ago, but I've not heard good things recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted April 21, 2008 Author Share Posted April 21, 2008 Looks like Acronis and Ghost are the main players in the commercial software market. Anyone else used both or use Acronis? Knoppix sounds like a possible: have you ever had to restore a disk image using it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Get a newer version of Ghost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Knoppix sounds like a possible: have you ever had to restore a disk image using it? Many times yes. Latest version of Knoppix has the Partimage app I believe (http://www.partimage.org/) but I've always just used dd or ntfsclone from the command line (http://www.tipsfor.us/2007/06/05/ghost-your-windows-system-for-free-using-open-source-tools/3/). It would appear that one caveat is that if you're wanting to restore a vista image to a different partition you need to edit the BCD boot file before cloning, or something like that, quick google found this http://www.multibooters.co.uk/cloning.html but I've never used Vista so I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxst Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I use Acronis and it works well. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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