[wladicus]

Recently I was looking for a way to save an image of my hard drive so that I could restore it ANY time to ANY computer. After setting up so many personal settings and various wallpapers, desktops and all the documents saved on particular subjects, it is a real downer when your system crashes and you have to start reloading from 'scratch'.
Well, the information that I got from the following website, including the free software, has taken care of all my worries. Not only can you save an exact disk image to a hard disk partition, or to a different hard disk drive, but you can save to a USB flash memory stick (which I do all the time). There are also ways to make the USB device bootable.
Check out the following site ---> there are many treasures there. smile.gif

Free Hard Disk Backup and Restore, Hard Disk Image and Cloning Utilities (thefreecountry.com)
***More Free Cloning utilities at post #6 below***

walt

[Albert Lionheart]

There is a lot of really useful stuff on there - wish I had seen this a month ago!
Thanks Walt

[Blackmirror]

Thanks Walt

[evilfantasy]

Welcome back Walt and thanks for the great post.

[wladicus]

Thank you very much for your acknowledgement. I, like everyone else, really enjoy helping out when I can. I'm glad that someone else has found this useful.
walt

[wladicus]

Macrium Reflect FREE Edition ... (Information and download)
Free Drive Backup Express ... (Disk backup software)
Clonezilla ... (Bare-Metal restoration from image)
Partimage ... (Disk Partition Image backup/restore,etc. - Main Page)
DuBaron DiskImage ... (Disk Image Backup/Restore)
SystemRescueCd ... (Bootable CD ROM for System Restoration - Main Page)
EASEUS Disk Copy ... (Free Disk Copy, Disk Clone, Partition Copy Software. Sector by Sector for hard drive backup freeware.)
XXCLONE ... (A New Way of Cloning the Windows System Disk)
CloneZilla GParted LiveCD ... (Complete partitioning and drive imaging/restoration tools)
Partition Saving: entry point ... (A DOS, Windows and Linux program that is used to save, restore and copy hard-drive, partitions, floppy disk and DOS, Windows or Linux devices)
PC INSPECTOR™ clone maxx ... (clone maxx CONVAR & PCinspector Data Recovery)
HDClone ... (Hard disk copy, hard disk backup, hard disk rescue - Free Edition)
DrvClonerXP 2.1 ... (Although not as powerful and flexible as "Partimage" or "Drive Image" or "Ghost" drive imaging programs, this is a simple yet powerful solution for XP system cloning requirements)
Self Image ... (hard drive imaging utility for Windows)

[Blackmirror]

Walt many thanks xx

[evilfantasy]

* This is now a Sticky.

[wladicus]

Thanks - Much appreciated!

[jaydeee]

download most of it for my computer troubleshooting hehehe!
I always backup before doing anything, I dont want to loose any file.

[Bailifei]

restore a backup image to any PC might be difficult because of the different configuration. i googled an article about restore image to any PC without reinstalling.

[wladicus]

On-Line backup is OK if you can afford the large bills from your Internet Provider. In Canada they are moving towards usage based charging. The more GB of traffic uploaded and downloaded the greater the cost to the user.
I have a 1TB fixed drive (purchased for only $70), and I do a complete image of my computer fixed drives (one Linux desktop machine and one Vista laptop) every month, and also store important data in between. (I also backup the Registry quite often - like after software additions and changes). I use the free PING imaging software (downloaded then burned onto a CD - under 700 MB) for saving a complete image and restoring. It has worked great for 4 years now with no problems. With PING I can move a complete operating system to ANY machine I want to or even to several machines.
I used to save everything to 8 and 16 GiB flash memory cards or USB sticks. Now the 1 Tera Byte fixed drive takes care of everything.
So - for those of you who do not wish to run up your internet bandwidth usage bill, you can do as I have done and at no expense other than the initial purchase of a USB plug-in fixed drive or a high capacity flash memory.
Cheers

[Daveskater]

What ever are you talking about, Albert?

[Albert Lionheart]

No idea at all - I remember the post but think it was directed at another poster on another thread! There is no way I would talk to Walt like that!
As you are a mod would you be kind enough to remove it for me?

[Daveskater]

No problem mate, I removed the spam you originally replied to Hence the wink

[shmartinn]

The enactment of so abounding claimed settings and a array of wallpaper, desktop and save all the files in a accurate topic, it is a absolute Downer, if your arrangement crashes, you accept to alpha from blemish reload.Well.Now online advancement is the actual defended for the abstracts storage.

[Albert Lionheart]

Sheesh - now there's another one!