Disk Imaging freeware

[Chankama]

Hi everyone. Are there any good "free" Disk imaging s/w out there for
Windows XP? Like Norton Ghost - but free. Thank you!

 

[mike555]

Hi everyone. Are there any good "free" Disk imaging s/w out there for
Windows XP? Like Norton Ghost - but free. Thank you!

=== I use the free version of " xx-clone " , it works good , every
month I clone my " C " drive to another partition.......
http://www.xxclone.com/ (be sure to read the instructions) I
didn't have it write to the MBR , I just added a line to my boot.ini
file -

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="XXCLONE: Windows (Cloned
Volume) [d:0,p:2] \WINDOWS" /fastdetect


so now my boot.ini file looks like this:

[Boot Loader]
timeout=5
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="XXCLONE: Windows (Cloned
Volume) [d:0,p:2] \WINDOWS" /fastdetect

--of course yours might be a bit different ========

 

[Chief Suspect]

Hi everyone. Are there any good "free" Disk imaging s/w out there for
Windows XP? Like Norton Ghost - but free. Thank you!

I'm unaware of any true "imaging" software that does as good a job as
Ghost or TeraByte. Others like XXCOPY are merely file copying schemes
from one drive to another. A longsome, tedious process, but workable
and free ... if you have that second drive available. True imaging
takes only minutes, and you usually have the option of putting the
image on another diskdrive, or onto CD/DVD discs in case you have only
the one harddrive. And CD/DVD discs make for safe portability.

 

[Juzme]

http://www.partition-saving.com/

http://www.partimage.org/

 

[Nick Worley]

Hi everyone. Are there any good "free" Disk imaging s/w out there for
Windows XP? Like Norton Ghost - but free. Thank you!

I'm unaware of any true "imaging" software that does as good a job as
Ghost... [snip]

I had Norton Ghost on my old XP computer and it worked perfectly.
I tried it on my new XP computer and it totally screwed it up -- XP wouldn't
load and I had to reinstall the OS and all my software from scratch (which
is kinda ironic when you think about it).
My new XP computer is very different to my old computer in many ways, but my
old XP computer used Intel Pentium 4 (2 GHz) (32 bit), whereas my new
computer uses AMD Athlon 4000+ (2.4 GHz) (64 bit). I've always wondered if
the 64 bit processor was responsible for the screw-up? Or rather whether
Norton Ghost's inability to deal with the 64 bit processor was responsible?
Anyway, whatever, everything's working fine now, and now I use Acronis True
Image. Not free, but it works with my 64-bit processor and that's all I care
about.
I'm not sure if this was just a one-off blip, but I wanted to let people
know of *potential* problems using Norton Ghost and an AMD 64-bit processor.
Regards
Nick

 

[John Corliss]

Hi everyone. Are there any good "free" Disk imaging s/w out there for
Windows XP? Like Norton Ghost - but free. Thank you!

I'm unaware of any true "imaging" software that does as good a job as
Ghost... [snip]

I had Norton Ghost on my old XP computer and it worked perfectly.

But Nick, Norton Ghost isn't freeware and neither is Acronis True
Image. This group is supposed to be for the discussion of freeware only.
Commecial software should only be mentioned for comparison purposes, as
when listing features that a person is looking for. Please refrain from
recommending commercial software.

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls and other such idiots. No adware, cdware,
commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware,
shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez
please.

 

[Nick Worley]

Chankama wrote:

Hi everyone. Are there any good "free" Disk imaging s/w out there for
Windows XP? Like Norton Ghost - but free. Thank you!

I'm unaware of any true "imaging" software that does as good a job as
Ghost... [snip]

I had Norton Ghost on my old XP computer and it worked perfectly.

But Nick, Norton Ghost isn't freeware and neither is Acronis True
Image. This group is supposed to be for the discussion of freeware only.
Commecial software should only be mentioned for comparison purposes, as
when listing features that a person is looking for. Please refrain from
recommending commercial software.

The main reason I posted was to let people know of a potential conflict, as
opposed to recommending a specific app.
But since this is a newsgroup for freeware, not commercial software, then I
can see my post was inappropriate.
Apologies.
Regards
Nick

 

[Richard Steinfeld]

Chief Suspect wrote:

Chankama wrote:


Hi everyone. Are there any good "free" Disk imaging s/w out there for
Windows XP? Like Norton Ghost - but free. Thank you!

I'm unaware of any true "imaging" software that does as good a job as
Ghost... [snip]

I had Norton Ghost on my old XP computer and it worked perfectly.

But Nick, Norton Ghost isn't freeware and neither is Acronis True
Image. This group is supposed to be for the discussion of freeware only.
Commecial software should only be mentioned for comparison purposes, as
when listing features that a person is looking for. Please refrain from
recommending commercial software.

The main reason I posted was to let people know of a potential conflict, as
opposed to recommending a specific app.
But since this is a newsgroup for freeware, not commercial software, then I
can see my post was inappropriate.
Apologies.
Regards
Nick

However, we may indeed need to resort to payware recovery utilities in
order to rescue our computers from damage caused by badly- or
irresponsibly-crafted freeware. God knows what will happen when we click
on a file named "install.exe." I've already had this experience.
Freeware coders don't exactly provide us with professional documentation
(if at all!), and we can't depend on calling them for support.

Installing new freeware isn't as risky as dining on blowfish, but it can
be a genuine risk. Image backup can fall into this sphere, and to me,
for this reason, this discussion is very on-topic. In fact, discussing
system restoration made neccesary by freeware damage should be an
essential, constant topic on this board, because the damage is done by
(on-topic) freeware.

Note: since I've already been asked to do this, I'm going to start a
thread with an edited version of this post.

Richard

 

[Nick Worley]

[snip]
In fact, discussing system restoration made neccesary by freeware damage
should be an essential, constant topic on this board, because the damage
is done by (on-topic) freeware.

Or even (as in my case) system restoration made neccesary by paidware
damage!!!
Regards
Nick