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What is the best way to get a good hard drive image?
I recently bought a new hard drive and I'd like to take an image of my current hard drive and load it onto the new one. First of all, is this usually quick and painless or is there some risk involved? Secondly, what is some good software, preferably cheap or free, that I could use to do this? Thanks in advance for your help.
I've created countless images using Norton Ghost at a previous job, but those images were created over a network making it much more efficient and easier to test. I'm just looking for something simple and reliable that doesn't have more functionality than what I need, which is just creating a hard drive image from a personal computer.
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- TheCuriousLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
norton Ghost or Acrnonis are the Best.
It will take less then 10 minutes for 50 GB DATA
- KenLv 41 decade ago
I saw in some magazines the local ones that they offered a full version of Paragon drive image. Check the website as the may give you a download of it. I have been using Drive Image for years (it's now part of symantec) and it has been safe and reliable. The only thing you need to do when you've done an image is to try to test it out. Usually the software has the option of 'verifying' the image. Most people never actually try it out until disaster happens. Some of my images went haywire but I have had some two or three images, so I just went back to an earlier image. I also noticed the ones created on a DVD or CDRW usually are more likely to have problems in the first instance they're created because most sizes of the c drive will span over more Cd's and which usually the problem arises. I have preferred the method of creating partitions within the main hard drive, and load a copy of the image on the remaining partition. So when a need arises to use the backup image, its straight away available on the partition. The only problem is the size of the image from c that you wish to create. If an image is done on virtually a virgin drive, one that has minimum of programs on it, the higher the success ratio. If you are going to use a commercial program you can go and look for "drive copy", it used to be part of Powerquest, now owned by Symantec. Norton ghost may not be easy to use for newbies.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Try norton ghost
