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paulbelk   08-23-2009 at 08:15:16 PM

I'm looking for the best software to image my hard drive to either a network storage device or RW's. My hard drive is failing & I am tired of doing the daunting re-install process of everything. I need some thing that is compatible with Vista & XP. I also need to be able to place that image on any size hard drive exactly as it appeared when I made the image. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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saint19   08-25-2009 at 10:20:54 PM
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Use norton ghost is really good, and resize the partition when you use the imagen to restore a system.

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dorsy99   08-28-2009 at 04:37:59 PM
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From my understanding, Norton Ghost 14 will do what you want, It can also split disk image volumes to sizes (i.e. 4gb) for DVDs. I think that is your best bet :)

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tosh9i   08-29-2009 at 09:40:24 PM
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I hear that Acronis is the leader when it comes to imaging.

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Russ51   09-01-2009 at 09:01:52 PM
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I've had such a good experience with Driveimage 7, the last version from PowerQuest, that I would buy a used copy of it somewhere if I didn't have it already. Freeware DriveImage XML is fine, but you have to jump through some hoops to make a boot CD with it, and you definitely want your driveimage program to be able to run off a boot CD or other bootable device.

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paulbelk   09-02-2009 at 05:37:51 AM
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Thanks for all the posts! They have all really giving me something to think about. I am currently using a free copy of Capricorns EZ Gig II software & it didn't work worth a darn until I reversed the drives & then it worked great.

I have tried a few other products but couldn't really figure out how to use them the best.

Does anyone have any screen shots, or reasons I should go with their choice?

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chillygoose   09-09-2009 at 03:19:57 PM
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I have used True Image for a few years switching from Ghost. I find it most functional in a home environment for disk imagining and also quite functional as a daily backup for my computers. Ghost is most functional in a DOS environment and has updated their software to be more functional with in a windows environment but from my experience True Image is a very smart buy. Here is a link that provides some good info.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/f [...] of_your_pc

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chillygoose   09-09-2009 at 03:36:02 PM
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Here is another very good article on the 2 leading imaging software packages

http://www.techsupportalert.com/dr [...] eviews.htm

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entropy_80   10-07-2009 at 08:58:34 PM
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+1 for Norton Ghost

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4ryan6   10-08-2009 at 01:44:23 PM
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Acronis True Image is what I use.

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