Re: Disk Cloning Software?

Just decided to try True Image. Made a True Image of my 40gigger.

Took 12(!!!!) hours and knocked me out of Windows the whole time!

It's gonna be Disk Image from PowerQuest, methinks. 12 hours on a fast Dell
Box with 7200 rpm disks. 12 hours!!

It would be funny if it weren't so pitiful!


<dreamtheater_142@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,
Any way my vote for Acronis True Image
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/.
Timothy Daniels, I use this program almost for backup my OS partition.
As it perfectly suits for this act, it could create backup from
separate partition as well as full disk.

Ross M. Greenberg wrote:
CasperXP looks great and looks like it'll do the trick! Gotta resize the
partition: right now it's 33 GB in an 80GB partition -- Casper wants me
to
resize it. Based upon your say-so, I'm spending the $50 today! You
know, I
can't find any decent partitioning software either! Arrggghhhhhhhhh!


"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ross M. Greenberg" wrote:
Yes. :-)

Well, I desires a bit-for-bit copy of my current C: drive onto this
larger USB drive, I consider it both.


A "clone" can be booted directly. An "image" has to be "restored"
from other media before it can be booted. Booting from a USB drive
is still considered a trick which most people cannot do (including me).

For cloning - making a bootable copy on another hard drive - I use
Casper XP. It costs $50, but you can download a free copy that will
work for 30 days from www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp . I prefer
Casper XP over Acronis's True Image because Casper XP can
copy just one partition off a hard drive which may contain many
partitions, and put the copy into one partition (or unallocated space)
among other partitions on the destination hard drive. True Image
copies the *entire hard drive* onto the entirety of another hard drive.
That's fine if you're just upgrading to a larger hard drive, but it
sucks
if you want to archive a current version of a system partition among
other versions. I do the latter in order to have multiple clones that
I
can fall back on in the event of failure of the primary hard drive, and
I don't want to spend the time to "restore" a system from CD or DVD
or external USB hard drive. To boot one of the clones, even without
failure of the primary HD, all I have to do is adjust the boot order in
the BIOS, restart the PC, and the clone of a previous system loads
up. Casper XP is dedicated to cloning, and it does its thing within
Windows while Windows is still running - unlike Symantec's Ghost.
For cloning, Casper XP is the best utility I've found.

*TimDaniels*



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