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good hard drive imaging software?

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grimreeferx09

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hey guys, im thinking about replacing my hardrive with 2 in raid 0, but dont wanna lose any of my data. whats the easiest to use/best software to do this?
 
Many years ago, was Partition Magic
Then Symantec Ghost
Then over past several years Acronis True Image
For the past year, for both stand alone PCs and servers, I've been enjoying Paragon.
 
+1 for Acronis, although I only use the nogui Boot CD and don't ever install the software.
 
Partition Magic was/has never been an imaging too, YeOldeStoner... ;)

I think you were meaning another most excellent PowerQuest product (they made Partition Magic too) called Drive Image, the original (because it predated Ghost by about 2 years but not everybody knows this) drive imaging application. It ruled for a long long time, and then Symantec stepped in and pulled the plug when they bought out PowerQuest and ruined pretty much every product and their fantastic reputation.

Ugh...
 
Acronis, and use universal restore to inject the new raid drivers, or else your system will not boot properly
 
Joe Average said:
Partition Magic was/has never been an imaging too, YeOldeStoner... ;)

I think you were meaning another most excellent PowerQuest product (they made Partition Magic too) called Drive Image, the original (because it predated Ghost by about 2 years but not everybody knows this) drive imaging application. It ruled for a long long time, and then Symantec stepped in and pulled the plug when they bought out PowerQuest and ruined pretty much every product and their fantastic reputation.

Ugh...
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Yeah.."oops" :) Caught me asleep..had to get up early to hop a train to NYC for a network job. Didn't have enough coffee in me yet. :p

PQDI. I remember the DOS one. Running that from a floppy doing 2 gig parts.
 
Acronis works great. I was not a believer...but using Acronis I did an image of a -failing- system hard drive to a usb drive. Then got a new hard drive in and Acronis did an EXACT copy of the image from the usb to the new drive without ANY issues whatsoever. I admit I'm kind of a pessimist so I was waiting for something to go wrong at some point. But to my surprise everything went perfect. 100% Awesomeness...
 
I use to use True Image and I just could not take it any more. So I switched to Paragon Drive Backup and have not regretted it one bit.
 
QcGuy said:
I use to use True Image and I just could not take it any more. So I switched to Paragon Drive Backup and have not regretted it one bit.
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Could you be a little more descriptive of what you "could not take" anymore. Just out of curiosity.

And I'll add my $0.02. Acronis FTW.
 
I always liked True Image because it was simple and basic but it worked. I have used it from versions 8 to 11 and it just started getting more and more bloated with every release...kind of like Nero did and when you looked in the support forums there were always so many issues people were having and Acronis always gave the same response "We are aware of the issue and currently investigating it" and it seemed like when they released a new patch everyone was the beta testers for it and it took another 3-6 months to get those bugs worked out then along comes a new version and it started all over again. I tried the demo of the True Image 2009 and I that did it for me. I just wanted a basic drive image program. So I started looking around and tried several demos and eventually settled on Paragon. I think True Image is still a nice program it's just become to bloated for my tastes that's all.
And when ever I restored a image Vista would boot up and tell me "Generic Device Driver Installed Please Reboot" so I would have to reboot again. And it did not matter if I made the image in Vista or from True Image boot cd. After I switched to Paragon someone in True Image forums figured it out that it had to do with the way Vista checks the hard drive boot sector and on a restore True Image did not write it the way Vista wrote it. Paragon never gives me that issue.
 
Clonezilla, if you just need to be able to image offline. Its a linux Live CD (or LiveUSB/PXE), supports linux partitions and NTFS. Can clone whole drives, as well as partitions. Its one major downside is that images are not browseable, so you cant pull specific files out of one if you need, short of reimaging it. You can image a virtual drive in vmware if you don't want to use a physical computer though.
 
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