Computers Hard Drive Imaging

**mikeyis4dcats.** · 01-10-2013, 01:21 PM

Have a buddy who's 6 month old PC is showing signs of drive failure. He asked about getting it imaged over to a new drive. Is Norton Ghost or Acronis still the best software? Haven't had to do this for YEARS...

DaveNull · 01-10-2013, 01:29 PM

FTK Imager.

It's free and incredibly powerful but maybe not exactly user friendly for such a consumer related activity.

chop · 01-10-2013, 01:42 PM

I use acronis. I heard there was a free version but I haven't seen it.

asdf · 01-10-2013, 10:24 PM

I used the image backup that comes with windows 7 recently to replace a failing HD...worked like a charm

**KCFalcon59** · 01-11-2013, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by asdf

I used the image backup that comes with windows 7 recently to replace a failing HD...worked like a charm

I did the same. Worked much better than I expected.

**mikeyis4dcats.** · 01-11-2013, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by KCFalcon59

I did the same. Worked much better than I expected.

how did it work, can you clone directly to the new drive and just swap them out?

htismaqe · 01-11-2013, 12:23 PM

I have also used EaseUS ToDo Backup. Very easy to use and 100% free.

**KCFalcon59** · 01-11-2013, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

how did it work, can you clone directly to the new drive and just swap them out?

I used Windows 7 backup & restore to backup data and create a system image to an external drive. Then I replaced drive. Booted with windows 7 disk and chose restore from system image. Took a little while but worked great.

The only thing I had to be sure of is that the HD I replaced the bad one with was the same size or larger. Mine was a 500GB drive so I just went with the same size.

It was flawless.

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