Suggestions needed 4 free xp image software?

[KG]

I' am looking for a good free ntfs disk imaging program for use with Win XP sp2. I hope to
completely clone a bootable NTFS XP partition to another "primary NTFS partition" HD on the same
system. The clone should be bootable with a BIOS boot disk change. Any suggestions on what works
for you? Thank You
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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi KG,

"Good" and "free" don't usually go together well when it comes to software
of this nature. Recommend that you pry open your wallet and look at these:

Image for Windows www.terabyteunlimited.com
Acronis True Image www.acronis.com

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[Rock]

I' am looking for a good free ntfs disk imaging program for use with Win XP sp2. I hope to
completely clone a bootable NTFS XP partition to another "primary NTFS partition" HD on the same
system. The clone should be bootable with a BIOS boot disk change. Any suggestions on what works
for you? Thank You
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[KG]

Thank you for the response. But what I' am looking for would allow me to just change the BIOS boot
drive, then reboot and go. and to restoring the defective drive at a later time. In other words
the image must be bootable and able to operate as the original HD.

Image and Backup logical Drives and Partitions

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[Manny Borges]

You are confusing two seperate concepts.

Mirroring would be the technology closest to what you are talking about with
the whole "change my boot drive" comment. google RAID 1 .

But if the data on one becomes coprrupt in a mirror, both drives are done.

I think you will find that restoring an image to the original bad
drive/partition from the second drive/partition only takes a few minutes.

So why be sloppy about it and say you are going to fix it later. Just fix it
now .

The best solution:
drive 1 size x:
drive 2 partitioned into a part1 size x partition and part2 size y
partition.

Image drive 1 to drive2part2 on a regular schedule.

Tape a restore floppy or cd to the side of the system.

As for software, you are going to have to pay money for a decent imaging
program. Try ghost or true image or any of those out there.

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[Guest]

I' am looking for a good free ntfs disk imaging program

The files aren't an issue as you can just drag and drop from one partition
to another.

The issue is making copies of the partition and boot sectors. I don't know
if Windows ME start up floppy or Windows XP booting cd-rom allow you to
specify an active partition when partitioning a drive (this would also
install load code into the partition sector). Windows ME lets you read /
write the boot sector via DEBUG, but not NT / 2000 / XP. You need a special
program to read / write the partition sector.

In the old days, I would always format C: as a < 2GB FAT16 partition and
install MSDOS 6.22 on it. I had written programs to read / write parition and
boot sectors for backup purposes that ran under MSDOS. Then I would install
98/ME and then NT/2000/XP to create a multi-boot system. After each install
step, I would back up the boot sector as it's get modfied by each OS.
(NT/2000/XP copy the previous MBR to a file called BOOTSECT.DOS if you have
MSDOS and/or Windows 9x/ME installed).