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#Sep 6th @ 7:51 PM
dentaku
dentaku

I know this sounds like an add but since Jamie can post about re-installing his OS I can post about NOT re-installing my OS Smiley

Besides, this software is free for 15 days and it's not like you're going to take more than 15 days to clone a drive.

 

Vista is working fine and I didn't want to re-install everything so when I got my new WD6400AAKS 2 days ago I decided to use an HDD cloning program for the first time ever.

Since people where having problems getting cloned Vista boot drives to boot when it first came out I was glad to see that Acronis came out with something simpler than their other more full featured disk imaging products named Acronis Migrate Easy 7 that is perfectly Vista compatible.

 

Basically I just ran Migrate Easy on my 250GB drive that also has Windows on it, made the new drive bootable withing Migrate Easy and then pointed it to the 320GB as source and 640GB as destination. After quite some time I had a 640GB drive that's a perfect clone of my 320GB drive. 

Migrate Easy 7 is as simple as it gets.

#Sep 6th @ 7:56 PM
androidi
androidi

Get winhex. It's as easy as it can get to do various type of cloning/recovery tasks and you can do million other things as well after all it has features for programmers too. And you can do all kind of stuff that would normally require booting into some kind of recovery environment to do. It's not really suited to finding rootkits etc but afaik you could write a small program that could do that with the help of the scripting api.

 

It's the only program I've needed to do various low level tasks that come up now and then and the price for all that functionality is similar to what other programs cost for just one thing that it does.

 

 

Also, here's a program that allows you to backup files to ordinary paper and read them back with a scanner. http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/index.html

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