cloning software

[lasher]

Hi my old samsung spinpoint is starting to sound like a bag of spanners being rattled about, slow booting into desktop etc...

i have another drive i want to connect to my pc, press a button and copy the whole lot from one to another, no messing about with partitions or fancy commands.

The file structure on the samsung is ok , cleaned up the disc with various tools and its now ready to image across.

So what software can you recomend to clone/copy.

Thanks for your time.

P.s. OS is Windows XP latest updates etc..

thanks for your time.

 

[Youngie1337]

Norton Ghost

www.symantec.com

www.ghost.com

 

[lasher]

should have mentioned .. tight yorkshireman.. need it for nowt

but thanks for the link.. had heard of ghost and paragons offerings but need a freebie.

 

[zak4994]

*cough*torrent*cough*

 

[nepas]

acronis used to give away true image,am sure that whichever version was the latest you paid for and the older version was free

http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/

have just noticed that you can trial the software

 

[Darkjeste]

For free you could tree either of these.

http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

I have always used norton myself so I don't know for sure how these work but it's just copying the files over,it really isn't that hard of a thing to do for these programs if it does not have to recover anything.

 

[FarFarAway]

Please note that any more talk of warez will induce some admin anger

You know who you are

 

[lasher]

Please note that any more talk of warez will induce some admin anger

You know who you are

im in no way asking for a ripped version of software...

i see on cnet there are various packages available but was after a free to try or totally free version.

Thanks to those who have posted btw.

 

[Youngie1337]

For free you could tree either of these.

http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

I have always used norton myself so I don't know for sure how these work but it's just copying the files over,it really isn't that hard of a thing to do for these programs if it does not have to recover anything.

Cheers mate, will save these for myself.

 

[FarFarAway]

im in no way asking for a ripped version of software...

i see on cnet there are various packages available but was after a free to try or totally free version.

Thanks to those who have posted btw.

Wasn't aimed at you

 

[Rastalovich]

Any1 care to explain where all the free linux cloners are ?

 

[lasher]

ive just downloaded Acronis easy migrate and theres an option for linux on there , im sure i saw it.

Least when you go advanced clone theres a linux partition set up option.

Thanks for the link btw

free 15 day trial on acronis on almost everyone of their products.

 

[nepas]

weird how they just do a trial now,I remember getting true image 9 for free from them after 10 came out

 

[Rastalovich]

They have got some bundle contracts these days mind u. Had a cd with some freecom usb drive. Dont think it was a special version or anything, maybe 8 or 9.