We've covered FOG before in considerable detail, so if you're interested in learning more about how to use FOG, check out this tutorial. Partimage is a Linux-based tool, commonly packaged for a live rescue CD, which supports a variety of partition types and has a relatively easy-to-use menu structure.
It's a little bit less intuitive than Clonezilla, but it may work better for you in certain situations. These certainly aren't the only free and open source disk cloning tools out there. Wikipedia lists over a dozen others with an open source license, and there are certainly more than that out there hidden away across the Internet.
Do you have a favorite tool for disk cloning, either one listed here or one we should have included? Let us know in the comments below. Was going to download and use the latest version of Clonezilla since I have had success with it in the past. However that was a couple years ago. If I remember correctly I believe it has a limitation that the target drive must be equal or larger in size than the source drive you are making the copy from.
Even if the amount of data stored on the source drive would fit on the size of the target drive. Image credits :. WIlliam Warby. All you do is pop in the bootable disk and run Macrium and restore your Windows installation from previously backed up image files without ever logging into Windows. To make everything even better, Macrium Reflect supports both 32 and 64 bit versions of XP and Vista and the size of the installation file you must download is only 27 MB.
Macrium Reflect Free Edition is dotTech. DriveImage XML. Paragon Drive Backup Express. Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8. Seagate DiscWizard. Software that is intended to backup individual files and documents.
Ability to create a bootable CD. You have the option of creating either a Windows based rescue disc or a Linux based one. At the next window, select a bit or bit rescue disc and click Next. The Macrium boot media can also perform backups. Acronis True Image is perhaps the gold standard in imaging software for home and small business use.
There are however, special cutdown licensed versions created for hard drive manufacturers Western Digital and Seagate. As long as you have a drive by one of those companies installed on your system internal or external , you can use the special version of True Image. The feature set is highly reduced from the full Acronis True Image but you can still backup and restore images, clone discs and mount images as virtual drives.
Install and launch whichever version you have downloaded depending on your hardware. Presets are available in the drop down for the drives you already have attached. Make sure your media is already inserted, click Next and then Proceed in the next window to write the rescue media. When we looked at Backupper for our imaging software speed and compression tests , we were mightily impressed. On top of that, Backupper Standard is completely free for personal and commercial use.
Give the task a proper name. System Backup chooses only the partitions required that enable Windows to boot for backup.
If you have a system reserved partition, that will be included also. Click the writing option you prefer and follow the prompts to complete the process. The AOMEI rescue disc is actually the same program as you get on the desktop and it should also recognize your previous backup tasks. Simply Click Restore on the task, click Yes when asked if you want to restore a system image, highlight the backup file and click Start Restore.
If you backup partition C onto partition D for example, and they are both on the same physical hard drive, if the drive fails you will lose both partitions at the same time, and that includes the only backup you might have of partition C. This could be a costly and painful mistake.
Great and very useful article but direly needs to be updated as many new versions have now replaced these tested versions which are now old and many are already obsolete..
Also needed: what are the boot media sizes needed for each program? Knowing this we will know what is the smallest size flash drive to use to create our emergency boot disk. There are programs that work only with a particular format and not the other, this will simplify our work.
Thank you. I tried Seagate Disc Wizard for a while. I would never want to depend on Seagate Disc Wizard. I have tried all of these, but one thing that I miss with Ghost was its ability to build its own recovery media into the backup DVD.
One bad experience I had in the past, which is why I returned to Ghost, was if I misplaced the particular version of the recovery media, then my past backup files could not be read by the updated current version. So, is there a good program out there that is like Ghost where the recovery program is built into the recovery media DVDs instead of being separate?
What about a partial backup? The installed software will likely be far to integrated into Windows folders and the registry. My favorite has been Paragon Drive Copy for several years now. They were the first software to be able to copy a Windows 8 UEFI partition without having to tweak any of the settings and have the resulting clone drive be bootable. Seems dubious, there have been similar claims in the past but no one has been able to do this right, but their other software is great so I will have to try it out.
What image backup software is tested to work with Windows 10? Most I see are for win 7 or 8. Windows 10 compatibility is not listed because the article was released before it came out. They all do support Windows 10 though. Veeam Endpoint Backup free is worth considering. It has a nice set of features and is fast for both backup and restore. Using an older version of Ghost on Windows 7, this seemed to work OK — it supported setting up the bigger partitions on the target drive beforehand and handled cloning to the larger partitions on the target drive.
I tried it with Clonezilla, but it seems to want to clone to the target with the only same exact partition size as the source. I am currently using Aomei for my machines and although it is not as fast as the old Ghost or SSR it does the job. It has restored my test machine several time without an issue. At one point a newest SSR failed when I tried to restore my test machine. Aomei came to the rescue and it did restore it.
I am rather impressed with the features it has and the cost for the full version is very reasonable. The free version does not contain the scheduler which is the only limitation on the free version.
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