offtopic ? looking for a disk cloning / imaging tool

[Tim Moor]

dear w2k gurus,
i'm looking for a (free) tool to create diskimages on windows os's. it
should be able to handle sata disks, ntfs etc.

thanx alot
tim

 

[Galen]

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dear w2k gurus,
i'm looking for a (free) tool to create diskimages on windows os's. it
should be able to handle sata disks, ntfs etc.

thanx alot
tim

Free isn't going to happen likely - at least not completely. You can see
what's here and there is one free option available but doesn't do well with
partitions at the last build I tried. In fact it didn't do a single
partition at all now that I think about it. It's all or nothing - meaning I
had to backup the entire drive to another drive.

Backup! Image/Clone:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html

Acronis TrueImage is pretty cheap. That's been my favorite as of late.

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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

dear w2k gurus,
i'm looking for a (free) tool to create diskimages on windows os's. it
should be able to handle sata disks, ntfs etc.

thanx alot
tim

Boot the machine with a Bart PE boot disk, then use
xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches to create a
clone of your disk.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#download