Freeware bootable disk cloning software?

[gta95]

Hey, what do you guys use as a bootable disk clone? I have a unbootable HDD, and before trying the freezer trick, I would like to try to clone the disk.

 

[xenotype]

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

one of the features its free

 

[SockMan!]

Clonezilla Live:

http://www.clonezilla.org/


I haven't had a chance to use it yet.

 

[Old Hippie]

I have a unbootable HDD, and before trying the freezer trick, I would like to try to clone the disk.

One little hint, if your BIOS sees the drive, you have a chance.

If not..................

 

[gta95]

One little hint, if your BIOS sees the drive, you have a chance.

If not..................

My BIOS sees it, it just won't boot into Windows. The welcome screen before the login prompt will come up, but then the screen goes black and the system reboots.

 

[l3tt0hax0r]

Yeah your bios has to see it

 

[Old Hippie]

My BIOS sees it, it just won't boot into Windows. The welcome screen before the login prompt will come up, but then the screen goes black and the system reboots.

Ahhh, then we're on the right track.

Hiren's Boot CD is another wrench everybody should have in their tool box.

The freezer trick should be reserved for mechanical HDD problems.

 

[gta95]

It seems that the problems persist even with the new hard disk. I'm gonna try the memory sticks out.

 

[gta95]

This is ridiculous. This is the second computer within two weeks that has had trouble booting up, and the memory and the PS have checked out both times. How could two Windows installs theoretically just fail to boot (one restarts right when the welcome dialog comes up, and one screen goes dark after reaching the welcome screen with the mouse movable, then reboots after a while.)

 

[The Hunter]

Perhaps the Windows CD youre installing from is a bad copy.

 

[gta95]

Perhaps the Windows CD youre installing from is a bad copy.

I'm trying to boot from the hard disk

 

[Joe Average]

Hiren's BootCD is a warez-laden product and shouldn't be discussed or even recommended here (could end up costing you your account, actually).

You can use the UBCD4Win and create a custom one with DriveImage XML on it for doing imaging duties. Free, useful, and fairly easy to understand and work with.

 

[gta95]

To get up to speed with everything, I used UBCD to image to the new drive, but I'm still experiencing the problems previously stated


"This is ridiculous. This is the second computer within two weeks that has had trouble booting up, and the memory and the PS have checked out both times. How could two Windows installs theoretically just fail to boot (one restarts right when the welcome dialog comes up, and one screen goes dark after reaching the welcome screen with the mouse movable, then reboots after a while.)"

I don't know where to go from here. I really don't feel like a reinstall. I guess I will have to do a repair install, but I realy don't want to if I don't need to.