Drive Imaging Software

[Dave C.]

Just read the box on Ghost 9 ($69, Staples). Among many things, it makes a
full duplicate of a drive and the clone drie gets assigned a drive letter
and is bootable.

Also saw Copy Commander ($29) which seems that is could do the job. Anyone
use this one or any other comments?

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[Mel]

Just read the box on Ghost 9 ($69, Staples). Among many things, it makes a
full duplicate of a drive and the clone drive gets assigned a drive letter
and is bootable.

Also saw Copy Commander ($29) which seems that is could do the job. Anyone
use this one or any other comments?

The Ghost 9 CD is Bootable - and it boots up to the Microsoft Windows XP
Preinstallation Environment, which means it has native support for NTFS.
Are you running XP?

CompUSA had Ghost 9 & Partition Magic for ($50) after rebate.

I didn't look at Copy Commander.

I've been looking for a freeware solution, but so far none have measured
up to the task. Either they boot up to DOS or Linux and I wasn't
satisfied with them.

 

[Duddits]

Just read the box on Ghost 9 ($69, Staples). Among many things, it makes a
full duplicate of a drive and the clone drie gets assigned a drive letter
and is bootable.

Also saw Copy Commander ($29) which seems that is could do the job. Anyone
use this one or any other comments?

If you're going to spend dollars go with Acronis TrueImage
Cheaper and faster than Ghost.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
IMNSHO, it's the best.

regards

Dud

 

[jmatt]

These are free .

XXCLONE
http://xxclone.com/

Clone maxx
http://www.pcinspector.de/clone-maxx/uk/welcome.htm

DrvClonerXP
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?12500000037740
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/DrvClonerXP.shtml

X-Clone
http://www.activedwg.com/Download_Links.htm
http://www.simtel.net/product.php?url_fb_product_page=33313
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils5.html

BigDisk
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils1.html

ImageCast
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils3.html

Clone
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils1.html
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/diskutl/clone.zip

DrvImagerXP
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/DrvImagerXP.shtml

xxcopy
http://www.datman.com/xxcopy

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[bambam]

(e-mail address removed)-dot-au.no-spam.invalid (jmatt) wrote in

These are free .

XXCLONE
http://xxclone.com/

Clone maxx
http://www.pcinspector.de/clone-maxx/uk/welcome.htm

DrvClonerXP
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?12500000037740
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/DrvClonerXP.sh
tml

X-Clone
http://www.activedwg.com/Download_Links.htm
http://www.simtel.net/product.php?url_fb_product_page=33313
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils5.html

BigDisk
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils1.html

ImageCast
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils3.html

Clone
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils1.html
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/diskutl/clone.zip

DrvImagerXP
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/DrvImagerXP.sh
tml

xxcopy
http://www.datman.com/xxcopy

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Great list jmatt, but you seem to have missed my favourite.

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

This is a much underrated program by the payware crowd IMHO. The only
real downside is that you must have a fat partition to backup to. Oh and
you can't browse the image and extract individual files, which I only did
once when using Drive Image, just to check that it worked.
The program is reasonably easy to use, has pretty good documentation,
backs up and restores quite quickly, will fit on the small area left on a
Win98 boot disk, and it's Pricelessware. So I'm not the only one that
thinks it's a good program.

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005SYSTEMUTILITIES.php#0547-PW

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[Gary R. Schmidt]

[SNIP]
Also missed, "Ghost for UNIX" (g4u), at <http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/>

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[Ben Wylie]

I'm looking for a program to back up a laptop hard drive to an image which
needs to be saved over a network onto a networked drive. This
drive/partition image needs to contain all info (inc MBR) so as to be able
to completely restore a hard drive/partition. If this image file was somehow
browsable, so i could extract individual files, that would be a bonus. This
is saving from a FAT32 partition, onto an NTFS partition. I've tried
DrvImagerXP but it saves the complete drive including space which contains
no data. The drive i want to backup is 19gb but only contains 6gb of data,
so it's not ideal saving all 19gb.
Partition Saving runs from DOS so won't be able to save to a network drive.
XXCLONE won't let me save to a network drive. Clone Maxx will make a
bootable floppy and so is unlikely to be able to save to a networked drive.
DrvClonerXP and X-Clone just clone, they don't save an image of hard drive.

So basically i need software to:
-Create image of a local hard drive (FAT32) on a networked drive (NTFS)
-Must include all information including MBR to restore the drive completely.
-Must save only real data, and hopefully have some compression.
-If possible (i realise unlikely) be able to browse the drive image and
extract individual files, as well as being able to restore the complete
image.

Thanks
Ben

 

[nobody]

Just read the box on Ghost 9 ($69, Staples). Among many things, it makes
a full duplicate of a drive and the clone drie gets assigned a drive
letter and is bootable.

Also saw Copy Commander ($29) which seems that is could do the job.
Anyone use this one or any other comments?

Maybe DFSEE? www.dfsee.com




Alan

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[John Fitzsimons]

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[Richard Steven Hack]

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These are free .


DrvImagerXP
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and- Recovery/DrvImagerXP.sh
tml

I was just using DrvImagerXP last night - note that it will NOT back up
a "chunk" bigger than 4.2GB. Apparently the idiot who wrote it used a
four-byte int variable for his byte counter... It will count the
number of bytes saved larger than that. And it WILL successfully backup
chunks up to around 4GB. I don't know if it has any other stupid
limitations.

One nice feature is it will allow you to reboot the system and then
image the OS partition before anything much is running, which is a
little safer than doing it from within Windows.

Also if you have access to a Knoppix or other live Linux CD, you could
use partimage which is a command-line (ncurses menu driven) image backup
utility the output of which could easily be piped over a SSH network
connection to a remote server. I used that to image my C: drive last
night before I found out what the problem was with DrvImagerXP.

The DrvImagerXP facility can be found on the Bart's PE-based Windows
Ultimate Boot CD as well - which is nice because you can boot that and
backup an XP OS partition without running the hard disk OS at all.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

I'm looking for a program to back up a laptop hard drive to an image
which needs to be saved over a network onto a networked drive. This
drive/partition image needs to contain all info (inc MBR) so as to be
able to completely restore a hard drive/partition. If this image file
was somehow browsable, so i could extract individual files, that would
be a bonus. This is saving from a FAT32 partition, onto an NTFS
partition. I've tried DrvImagerXP but it saves the complete drive
including space which contains no data. The drive i want to backup is
19gb but only contains 6gb of data, so it's not ideal saving all 19gb.
Partition Saving runs from DOS so won't be able to save to a network
drive. XXCLONE won't let me save to a network drive. Clone Maxx will
make a bootable floppy and so is unlikely to be able to save to a
networked drive. DrvClonerXP and X-Clone just clone, they don't save
an image of hard drive.

So basically i need software to:
-Create image of a local hard drive (FAT32) on a networked drive
(NTFS) -Must include all information including MBR to restore the
drive completely. -Must save only real data, and hopefully have some
compression. -If possible (i realise unlikely) be able to browse the
drive image and extract individual files, as well as being able to
restore the complete image.

You might use Knoppix or one of the other Linux live CDs to run
partimage which can backup only used data from FAT32 (but not NTFS)
partitions and pipe it out standard output over an SSH connection to a
network server.

However, this is an ncurses-menu-driven command line utility, so you'd
need to have some familiarity with Linux and also how to pipe the output
over an SSH connection - and you'd need an SSH connection to the Windows
server (maybe Microft's UNIX Services for Windows?).

And you're unlikely to be able to browse the image file if it's
compressed - although that probably could be done with Linux utilities
used in combination. I've never tried that particular method.

g4u (Ghost-For-Linux) can do what you want. Don't know if it's on any
of the live CD distros.

 

[bambam]

I'm looking for a program to back up a laptop hard drive to an image
which needs to be saved over a network onto a networked drive. This
drive/partition image needs to contain all info (inc MBR) so as to be
able to completely restore a hard drive/partition. If this image file
was somehow browsable, so i could extract individual files, that would
be a bonus. This is saving from a FAT32 partition, onto an NTFS
partition. I've tried DrvImagerXP but it saves the complete drive
including space which contains no data. The drive i want to backup is
19gb but only contains 6gb of data, so it's not ideal saving all 19gb.
Partition Saving runs from DOS so won't be able to save to a network
drive. XXCLONE won't let me save to a network drive. Clone Maxx will
make a bootable floppy and so is unlikely to be able to save to a
networked drive. DrvClonerXP and X-Clone just clone, they don't save
an image of hard drive.

So basically i need software to:
-Create image of a local hard drive (FAT32) on a networked drive
(NTFS) -Must include all information including MBR to restore the
drive completely. -Must save only real data, and hopefully have some
compression. -If possible (i realise unlikely) be able to browse the
drive image and extract individual files, as well as being able to
restore the complete image.

OK, this is not exactly what you are asking for but it should have the
same end result.
Resize your existing 19GB Fat32 partition into a 10GB partition.
Partition Resizer works a treat-

http://zeleps.com/

Format the remaining space as a Fat32 partition. Ranish Partition Manager
is the obvious chioce-

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005SYSTEMUTILITIES.php#BootManag
er;Partitioner

qtparted is also well worth a look. If you have a recent copy of Knoppix
you should already have qtparted-

http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/

Now you run Partition Saving and image C to D, boot back into windows and
send the image to your network drive.
Yes, sometimes there are a few extra steps with freeware solutions, but
the cash stays in your pocket and we stay on topic in this group.

I also recommend, apart from a copy of Knoppix, that you download a copy
of the Ultimate Boot CD. It has all the software I,ve mentioned, except
qtparted, plus heaps of other handy stuff-

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

 

[jmatt]

bambam
Great list jmatt, but you seem to have missed my favourite.

Thanks bambam , knew about it , had it filed in a different place ,
have now included it in my clone file .

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[bambam]

I also recommend, apart from a copy of Knoppix, that you download a copy
of the Ultimate Boot CD. It has all the software I,ve mentioned, except
qtparted, plus heaps of other handy stuff-

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Actually I see now, that if you download the full version of the Ultimate
Boot CD vs the basic version that I have, it includes qtparted.