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B&R software comparison
Reading Gizmo's list of free drive imaging programs, and a little nosing around here and a few other places, I'm a little confused as to how effective some of these programs are.
Having suffered my share of OS HD failures, I am finally looking at ways to minimize the pain of doing a fresh install to replace a failed HD. The OS install is no big deal, but installing and tweaking the programs as I prefer takes an enormous amount of time.
I have a number of different scenarios to cover:
1) Vista/32 bit HP computer
2) XP.pro.sp3 computer
3) Win 7 x64 HP computer with an SSD (80GB) for the OS and programs (150GB Raptor available for recovery)
4) Win 7 x64 HP computer with an SSD (64GB) caching a mechanical drive (via Intel's IRST feature)
I've read that some of these programs won't scale to different size drives for recovery. Not having used any of them, I have no clue as to their pros/cons for my intended applications.
Anyone here care to offer any suggestions? It seems that Macrium has a good following here, but Gizmo says it has issues that haven't been fixed. I watched a Youtube video of someone demonstrating Paragon and that certainly seemed straightforward. Gizmo seems to like Easeus.
I'd appreciate a little guidance from some with some experience in this area.