Hi All I currently have a 750 GB Hard drive and I would like to back this up using a Disk Image. Two questions I have are: 1) Which software (open source would be great) do you recommend ? 2) What size would the Disk Image be ? Thanks All I look forward to your replies
Don't use free software myself but if you wanted to pay for something I would recommend Acronis True image, its always been easy and trouble free, it seems lightweight enough (well it doesn't slow everything to a halt when it runs anyway) and I have restored from it after a failure so know it does work. http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ It is paid for but sometimes you do get value for these things.
If you have a seagate or maxtor harddrive you can download segate Diskwizard which is free and is actually Acronis True Image. But has to detect a segate or maxtor device connected to the system to work. I use it all the time for cloning I just connect a seagate harddrive and do the clone from a samsung to another samsung drive and then disconnect the segate. Works great.
Thanks guys, what size iso image can i expect to create ? or this is dependent on how large the hard drive is ?
I use Acronis. The image size depends on the used space on the partition and not the overall size. My initial Windows 7 backup was 3.5GB.
I had an old Maxtor external HDD lying about - connected it up - downloaded. Now the proud owner of a "free" copy of Acronis True Image. Thanks Bumsrush.