CLoning a drive

[Rydawg5143]

Preformance wise and error wise. Is there any reason to not clone a HD?

 

[axan]

as long as the dirve to be cloned is healthy there is no reason not to clone it.

 

[beanz003]

i clone my hd frequently just incase one hd takes a dive. totally worth it if you have an extra hd lying around

 

[Rydawg5143]

thanks for info.

WHat you guys use to clone?

 

[beanz003]

if you have a seagate drive, you can use seagate diskwizard, which is a free program based on acronis trueimage. great and simple software. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard

 

[Rydawg5143]

i have all WD drives. aaks and aals

 

[beanz003]

since seagate's diskwizard is based on acronis trueimage, i would go with that.

 

[undermined]

use the WesternDigital install disk or download it from WD. Or use GParted/clonezilla which is a linux liveCD based partitioning/cloning tool that is free.

 

[axan]

acronis is nice but like others said there are other free tools that will do the job just as well.

 

[SkittlesMcduck]

Or use GParted/clonezilla which is a linux liveCD based partitioning/cloning tool that is free

I can vouch for clonezilla. I use at work and we pxe boot many computers and clone them all at once. Works great for single computers also. It is also just as easy to use as acronis or any of the more "mainstream" solutions. Has great compression for imaging.

 

[Hard and Confused]

I use HD Clone 3.6 pro. Its cheap and does a damned good/fast job.