Dos_Box Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 A quick question. I need to let a user with very little technical skills know how to copy their windows hard drive to a new one they have purchased. Short of sending them off to the command line are there any free packages to do this?
pooley Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 How about freeghost ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/
k-strider Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 Isn't DriveImage XML a free one? sure i read an artical on it somewhere.
ICT_GUY Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 This months pc PRO has a drive image utility on it.
tech_guy Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 (edited) I'd normally suggest driveimage xml but it's a bit technical for a novice. I usually give them a bartpe disk & written instructions on how to use it so long as they've got an internal/external burner cdrom drive as well to use. Failing that I go and do it for them. Edited March 19, 2008 by tech_guy
OutToLunch Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 When you say 'Windows hard drive' do you mean they need to copy a live system? Will they be happy being pointed at bootable CD utilities with an appropriate guide, or will they need to be able to run it from within Windows?
craiglay Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 Thought about something like MaxBlast (Maxor and Seagate HD's) can clone a drive and are relatively straightforward to use. Personally, I would give them a BartPE / DriveimageXML disk and some written instructions Craig
Joanne Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 I got a new HDD for my system and i was so tempted to just copy and paste!! I just ended up re-installing windows and copying over files and stuff... a fresh start is always good... right?
mac_shinobi Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 Here is a full list of utils for that sort of thing : http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml The above site has a lot of other free utils / tools etc
Polski Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 I have used Partition Commander 8 since XP came out (previously used Partiton Magic 6). I think it's time I got my hand in my pocket and bought a newer version as my version does not support SATA drives. It does do nice stuff like recover dead "Dynamic disks" though, so cannot complain. My number 1 CD.
SYNACK Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 Drive snapshot is really easy and very fast. It is free for 30 days to: Drive Snapshot - Download evaluation Software No install needed either, just a straight EXE.
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