Solved How to perfectly clone my HD...HELP...

[Core7]

I am going to the biggest LAN in South Africa so can some one please help me to make a perfect copy of my HardDrive as is and put that copy on to a clean brad new HadrdDrive? Just in-case something goes wrong...please this will be much appreciated.

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[nitroman84]

I use Acronis True Image to make full backups of my system. It allows for a full backup to an external drive or cloning of one disk to another. I have had very good luck with it.

 

[A Guy]

All free

Seagate Disc Wizard (Free version of Acronis for Seagate drives)

Backup & Recovery 2010 Free Advanced

Macrium Reflect

Drive Image XML

Clonezilla

A Guy

 

[nitroman84]

All free

Seagate Disc Wizard (Free version of Acronis for Seagate drives)

Backup & Recovery 2010 Free Advanced

Macrium Reflect

Drive Image XML

Clonezilla

A Guy

Guess I should have looked around a little before buying Acronis

 

[A Guy]

All free

Seagate Disc Wizard (Free version of Acronis for Seagate drives)

Backup & Recovery 2010 Free Advanced

Macrium Reflect

Drive Image XML

Clonezilla

A Guy

Guess I should have looked around a little before buying Acronis

This free one is like version 10. It's good, but you no doubt have a newer version with more features

A Guy

 

[nitroman84]

All free

Seagate Disc Wizard (Free version of Acronis for Seagate drives)

Backup & Recovery 2010 Free Advanced

Macrium Reflect

Drive Image XML

Clonezilla

A Guy

Guess I should have looked around a little before buying Acronis

This free one is like version 10. It's good, but you no doubt have a newer version with more features

A Guy

Recently upgraded to version 11, better integration into Windows 7 but I miss the UI of 10.

 

[Core7]

Oky none of this looks like a definite chance to me bur HDClone does though what you think of this i can get the professional edition. My friend has it, and I just want know it has an option Drive to Drive so you clone it but I want to know how does this program clone your HD wile you are still using some of the program and services?

 

[nitroman84]

Oky none of this looks like a definite chance to me bur HDClone does though what you think of this i can get the professional edition. My friend has it, and I just want know it has an option Drive to Drive so you clone it but I want to know how does this program clone your HD wile you are still using some of the program and services?

Good question, I guess only a software engineer or an extreme level geek could break down the nuts and bolts of it. But I can say it is a quick process. Backup about 9 min, recovery to a clean disk about 15.

 

[A Guy]

Oky none of this looks like a definite chance to me bur HDClone does though what you think of this i can get the professional edition. My friend has it, and I just want know it has an option Drive to Drive so you clone it but I want to know how does this program clone your HD wile you are still using some of the program and services?

Don't know what you mean by "none of this looks like a definite chance"? But all the programs I listed will clone a hard drive, which is what I thought you wanted?

A Guy

 

[Core7]

Oky none of this looks like a definite chance to me bur HDClone does though what you think of this i can get the professional edition. My friend has it, and I just want know it has an option Drive to Drive so you clone it but I want to know how does this program clone your HD wile you are still using some of the program and services?

Good question, I guess only a software engineer or an extreme level geek could break down the nuts and bolts of it. But I can say it is a quick process. Backup about 9 min, recovery to a clean disk about 15.

Damm that doesn't sounds right to me I want to back up my whole 320gig HD with all its programs and music and everything so when I am done and i plug out my 320gig and put in the cloned one everything must be the same, that is all I want just a clone of the whole hard-drive, my fiend says he got a bootable CD with it... Read this maybe someone can tell me hoe to do this with this program:sarc:

 

[nitroman84]

Oky none of this looks like a definite chance to me bur HDClone does though what you think of this i can get the professional edition. My friend has it, and I just want know it has an option Drive to Drive so you clone it but I want to know how does this program clone your HD wile you are still using some of the program and services?

Good question, I guess only a software engineer or an extreme level geek could break down the nuts and bolts of it. But I can say it is a quick process. Backup about 9 min, recovery to a clean disk about 15.

Damm that doesn't sounds right to me I want to back up my whole 320gig HD with all its programs and music and everything so when I am done and i plug out my 320gig and put in the cloned one everything must be the same, that is all I want just a clone of the whole hard-drive, my fiend says he got a bootable CD with it... Read this maybe someone can tell me hoe to do this with this program:sarc:

You are not actually backing up the whole 320 gig, the programs will only back up the data that is stored on the disk. For example my SSD is 128 gb my Windows install with all applications occupies 28 gb. The program backs up only that 28 gb which is used and then (depending on user settings) compresses it resulting in a 17.8 gb file for future use if needed.

 

[Core7]

So there is no way I can take my hadrdrive and make a complete copy of it?

 

[nitroman84]

So there is no way I can take my hadrdrive and make a complete copy of it?

Of course you can, the example i used is for a backup. But my program (like others listed) also have a clone option as well. This feature will clone your disk to another connected to the computer. And in mine (Acronis) you have the option to do a sector by sector backup which does clone all sectors of the drive resulting in the full size of the drive. I see no need for this as you are also including the free space of the drive, but when you clone it will only write the used data including partitions to the destination drive. It is a perfect bootable copy of the original you simply replace the original with. This process also takes only about 10-15 min.

 

[A Guy]

So there is no way I can take my hadrdrive and make a complete copy of it?

Every program mentioned in this thread will make a complete copy (clone) of your hard drive. A Guy

 

[Core7]

So there is no way I can take my hadrdrive and make a complete copy of it?

Every program mentioned in this thread will make a complete copy (clone) of your hard drive. A Guy

Thanks guy so I can use clone HD?

 

[nitroman84]

So there is no way I can take my hadrdrive and make a complete copy of it?

Every program mentioned in this thread will make a complete copy (clone) of your hard drive. A Guy

Thanks guy so I can use clone HD?

I have no personal experience with that program but if it supports the above mentioned features then yes it will do what you need.

 

[Core7]

Every program mentioned in this thread will make a complete copy (clone) of your hard drive. A Guy

Thanks guy so I can use clone HD?

I have no personal experience with that program but if it supports the above mentioned features then yes it will do what you need.

Or would you prefer this? "Acronis True Image Home 2011 v14 Build 5519 Final"

 

[wds7]

Thanks guy so I can use clone HD?

I have no personal experience with that program but if it supports the above mentioned features then yes it will do what you need.

Or would you prefer this? "Acronis True Image Home 2011 v14 Build 5519 Final"

Yub ..this one should work for you ..
I use it to clone my "Back up Hdd" in case something goes wrong ,,i just pop it in .

 

[patio]

I did extensive testing of all the Free apps mentioned and IMHO Macrium Reflect came out on top...

 

[Core7]

SH!t clonehd doesn't work when I clone it and after that turn PC off and then plug out the old one and leave the cloned one in then it only shows a white - and nothing boots up and I did check the boot settings