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12-29-2008, 09:42 PM
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#1 | | Glorious Gaming PC Master Race
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| need a free HDD cloning software
need to make an image of my laptop drive to an external USB HDD (through USB naturally), so i can swap them out quickly.
Partition Magic maybe?
any ideas?
Last edited by Psykopathik; 12-29-2008 at 09:48 PM.
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12-29-2008, 10:44 PM
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#2 | | Banned By Establishment
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turbo e asking questions???
i've used norton ghost which ain't free. try acronis
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12-29-2008, 10:49 PM
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#3 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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12-29-2008, 11:06 PM
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#4 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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+1 for norton ghost
i've always used it and never failed me
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12-29-2008, 11:16 PM
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#5 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Acronis has a free trial period, so if its for a one time use, you're good to go  | |
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12-30-2008, 01:51 AM
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I don't see acronis supports dos mode recovery(or maybe I am stupid)...so I use Norton only.
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12-30-2008, 08:39 AM
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#7 | | Zombie Mod
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Originally Posted by John  | I've used DriveImage numerous times. It works as advertised, and it's free.
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12-30-2008, 09:38 AM
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#8 | | Glorious Gaming PC Master Race
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thanks guys
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12-30-2008, 10:27 AM
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#9 | | The RS Freebie guru
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Find and download Hiren's Boot CD.
You will have every single one of those programs listed above plus more.
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12-31-2008, 12:14 PM
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#10 | | Glorious Gaming PC Master Race
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weird drive image copied, but when i installed the newly cloned drive it didnt work, however all the stuff is copied.
meh.
just did a clean install instead.
thanks for the help anyways guys
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12-31-2008, 12:19 PM
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#11 | | Zombie Mod
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Originally Posted by Turbo E weird drive image copied, but when i installed the newly cloned drive it didnt work, however all the stuff is copied. | The partition may have needed it to be set to active.
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01-01-2009, 08:22 AM
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#12 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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and you need to make sure you copy the MBR if you are mirroring your boot drive.
I think the default is usually off, in case people accidentally overwrite an existing MBR on their clone drive.
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01-01-2009, 06:49 PM
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#13 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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I've tried Ghost and Acronis True Image 11. TI11 is easier to use, and cheaper in stores. Incredible life saver, and you can make bootable media out of essentially anything, which has helped me out a ton. I can't recommend TI11 enough.
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