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Drive imaging - How to?

kent

kent

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I'm building a computer for a friend and once I get his OS/Updates/Office Suite/etc installed I want to burn him a couple of recovery DVDs because he won't know how to install drivers/service packs if he needs to do it himself.

What's the best and cheapest way to go about doing this? I'll buy a simple program if I need to but something freeware and non-Ghostish might be nice. I downloaded an Eval of Ghost but it seemed really complicated.

Basically I just need something that will make a 1:1 copy of the hard drive and either let me burn the DVDs from there, or create 4.3GB chunk'd ISOs that I can burn from another application.

Thanks
 
I've used Acronis TrueImage to do this recently. I built a new HTPC with an old and extremely loud 15GB drive and spent much time getting everything setup and tweaked as i needed.. Then made an image of it. When the newer/quieter 250GB drive arrived, i just popped it in and restored the image.

The install was about 6-7GB which was compressed down to 3.5GB by acronis. So I could have made a DVD with this image, although I did not (stored it on a CIFS share instead).
 
I had forgotten I downloaded True Image 7 when it was free (anandtech HD forums)

Anyways, I was playing around with it and it looks easy to use.
 
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