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Geek Culture / Is there anything free that lets you make a raw image of your hdd?

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Posted: 20th May 2007 06:51
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I am looking to make a COMPLETE backup of my hdd, this includes bootsectors, mbrs, and any filesystem areas..

I have yet to see anything that can do this for hdds
I'd also like to have the capability to write the saved image back to the hdd incase something goes wrong..

I have two computers, so locking the hdd won't be any problem, I can just take the hdd out of one and put it in the other..

I am using windows Vista btw..

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Posted: 20th May 2007 09:51
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Unless you have a second drive of larger capacity to copy to, I am betting you would not have enough memory for such an image creation. Just use a HD cloning software which you can find some free, but use at your own risk.

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Posted: 20th May 2007 17:46
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yea, I do..

on any matter though, I decided to risk it with my disk...it works though(or at least the part I was worried about..)

I was seriously considering booting into dos and using an old, small utility called partcopy ..who knows if it would have worked, but anyway..

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Posted: 20th May 2007 19:12
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Some programs can use strong compression when making the image, but I don't know of any free ones and I doubt you could afford EnCase.


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