I want to clone my HDD for back-up Where I work we use "Ghost" to image up our PCs but I don't want to buy it and I want something that is free to clone drives. I know that there is "Clonezilla" and this can be used to clone to network drive, dvd and usb drives but is there a better option?
Clonezilla does a good job providing the destination drive is the same size or larger than the original. Any specific features that you need?
Bear in mind that if you are using win7, you'll probably have to run the repair from the win7 cd to use the clone drive if anything goes wrong. I clone my drives using a bootable Ghost CD and the installer has to re-write the boot volumes when you try to use the image on the backup drive.
I have a 1Tb atm but this is just a back up if my drive fails or whatever. Also I'm planing to getting a SSD some time this year hoping this can be copied over I have win 7. I use Ghost v8 from a USB every day at work never had to use a repair tool with win XP, XPE and 7 so I'm not to sure what yours trying to get at sorry
That's ok, the newer versions of ghost probably copy the boot sectors of the drives better - i'm using an old (ancient) version of ghost which is why i probably have to rewrite the boot sectors on win7 via the repair tool - never had the same issue with XP tho.
do you Sysprep windows? in vista and 7; c:\windows\system32\sysprep run sysprep.exe this will make your pc "new"(as if you just installed windows) but saving all drivers and programs installed. this could save you having to use repair tool
