Image disk to disk win7?

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Is there any free software that will Image disk to disk with a windows 7 load?
 
i think danman meant windows 7 "create system image". which does exactly what it says, snapshot of your drive.
 
I need to copy the image of one drive to another. Windows 7 is the OS. Active Disk failed. It made an image but would not put it back on a different drive.
 
he wants to clone a drive from one to another.
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That is totally different from making a image of the system that can be restored in its entirety at some time to some other disk.
 
Copyright said:
I need to copy the image of one drive to another. Windows 7 is the OS. Active Disk failed. It made an image but would not put it back on a different drive.
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CloneZilla will work for this. So will partedmagic or gparted. I believe so will a free trial of acronis true image and you may still be able to burn that to a cd. Also if you have a Seagate or Western Digital drive you can download a free version of acronis true image that does not expire although I do not believe the trial burned to cd version expired anyways. For the linux experts dd will also work and so will ntfsclone.
 
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EASEUS Disk Copy will work too. I cloned my Win7 Enterprise x64 HDD install onto my SSD with it. They happened to be the same size, so it may or may not be more work if the drives aren't the same size.
 
drescherjm said:
That is totally different from making a image of the system that can be restored in its entirety at some time to some other disk.
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TOTALLY different? are you sure you're not overexagerating?

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I've heard good things about clonezilla
 
Maybe a little exaggeration.

Creating an image is meant as a backup tool or a go back mechanism. Not for a way to clone a disk. Although if you want and you have a third disk you can force it do that using a restoration of the cloned disk. This is way more time and work needed to achieve a clone of a hard drive. This is why I did not mention Drive Image XML, partimage, ghost ... as these are geared towards creating an image not making a copy.
 
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Strange.. Ghost calls it DIsk to Image... then I can take that Image and put it on any disk. So actually I can clone a disk from that image. I guess the term is used loosely with them? Active Disk 4.0 did not work. I see all the files there but it fails to boot. Can Clonezilla do a disk to disk copy? This would be two different sized drives. I would want it to use the full drive as a single partition. I would like something I can use "off line" as a boot to cd method and just clone the drive easily. I know I can do this all day with older versions of ghost but I don't have the latest with Win 7 support.
 
There are several ways of doing this:

- Use Clonezilla or PING to create an image of the source drive; put that on some other media or a third hard drive and then restore it to the destination disk
- Use Easeus Disk Copy as suggested above; I've used it for a disk to disk clone with good results
- Go to your HDD manufacturer's home page; usually they will have a cut-down version of Acronis or some other software that will allow you to do a disk to disk copy for purposes of upgrading

There are more options, but I don't see why one of those wouldn't do the trick...
 
imyourzero said:
There are several ways of doing this:

- Use Clonezilla or PING to create an image of the source drive; put that on some other media or a third hard drive and then restore it to the destination disk
- Use Easeus Disk Copy as suggested above; I've used it for a disk to disk clone with good results
- Go to your HDD manufacturer's home page; usually they will have a cut-down version of Acronis or some other software that will allow you to do a disk to disk copy for purposes of upgrading

There are more options, but I don't see why one of those wouldn't do the trick...
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I will have to give these a try next time. I said screw it and did a fresh reload. For some reaosn the machine ran much much better in my games this time around. I know it wasn't the faster HD that made the difference so apparently something was bonkers with my video driver. In the end the fresh install was the best option for this rig.
 
Copyright said:
Strange.. Ghost calls it DIsk to Image... then I can take that Image and put it on any disk. So actually I can clone a disk from that image. I guess the term is used loosely with them? Active Disk 4.0 did not work. I see all the files there but it fails to boot. Can Clonezilla do a disk to disk copy? This would be two different sized drives. I would want it to use the full drive as a single partition. I would like something I can use "off line" as a boot to cd method and just clone the drive easily. I know I can do this all day with older versions of ghost but I don't have the latest with Win 7 support.
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it sounds like Active disk cloned the filesystem, and not the disk. Without the proper boot loader on the first sector on the drive, it will never boot.
 
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