Software for cloning/imagining hard drives

[Un4tural]

Hello All,

 

Could anyone advise on software that is flexible on hard drive sizes for creating an image of a system and restoring on another identical system.

 

I've tried a good portion of tool in hirens boot cd ending up with a bluescreen or failure when trying to restore the image on another identical laptop or complete failure if hdd size is off.

 

It would need to be imagining tool, as it needs to be flexible on hdd size, like what comes with samsung SSDs to upgrade, which allows for the hdd size to be smaller/larger than source, highly preferable to be able to launch from usb like hirens boot cd though, to restore from image and not from hdd to hdd...

[JPotze]

back in the day i used symantec ghost. on startup in post i pressed a key ( i think f10 ) and then the image was pulled in via the network and i could image 100 computers in 1 hour. we did that every week for all the computers in the school.

[PenPoint]

Acronis True Image is one of the best utilty in the marketplace.

I also heard Drive Snapshot( http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/ ), this will be decent too.

[stratege1401]

freestuff actually working;

- Clonezilla

- redobackup

- Gparted

 

all free, workknv on usb based on linux ...

 

[JoostinOnline]

I use EaseUS Todo Backup for my business. The free version works if you don't want to pay.