- Aug 3, 2013
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Hi, I was looking for software to clone my hard drive into an .iso image? I have two hard drives. A 1tb (931gb) with about 313gb free and a 2tb (1.81tb) with about 1.55tb free -
I'm looking for a bit-to-bit clone. An absolute identical clone all stored into an .iso file. Does anyone know how long it would take to clone 618gb's worth of data? Or does a bit-to-bit clone, copy each sector, so the actual clone would be 931gb even though I haven't used all of that data?
Lastly, if I were to make a bit-to-bit clone into a .iso image, how easy is it to unpack all the data onto a separate new, unused hard drive?
I've had my Western Digital 1tb (931gb) 7200rpm hard drive for around four years now. I don't know much about hard drive's life span but I have far too much data to lose with absolutely ZERO backup of any kind.
Recently, my friends drive broke and he lost around 400gb's of data. Randomly out of the blue his drive broke so it really make me think twice about my data. Obviously drives don't last forever.
Cheers!
I'm looking for a bit-to-bit clone. An absolute identical clone all stored into an .iso file. Does anyone know how long it would take to clone 618gb's worth of data? Or does a bit-to-bit clone, copy each sector, so the actual clone would be 931gb even though I haven't used all of that data?
Lastly, if I were to make a bit-to-bit clone into a .iso image, how easy is it to unpack all the data onto a separate new, unused hard drive?
I've had my Western Digital 1tb (931gb) 7200rpm hard drive for around four years now. I don't know much about hard drive's life span but I have far too much data to lose with absolutely ZERO backup of any kind.
Recently, my friends drive broke and he lost around 400gb's of data. Randomly out of the blue his drive broke so it really make me think twice about my data. Obviously drives don't last forever.
Cheers!
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