There are a lot of hard disk repair programs in Hiren's. I figure I will make images before I make clones. Restore deleted partition, Rebuild MBR, Rebuild partition table, Recover files, Restore formatted partition, Backup files by partition, Disk clone, Backup partition table, Create/Delete/Format Partitions etc.

The simple way to clone a Windows disk to another disk, it makes a self-bootable clone of Windows system disk. Useful tool to transfer the data directly from a faulty drive to another drive, built in data recovery function which will also attempt to recover data from bad sectors.Ĭopy all your files and entire system - even if they are locked by Windows.Ĭreate image files of any mounted or unmounted hard disk partition.

Supported filesystem includes Ext2, Ext3, Reiserfs, HFS, HPFS, JFS, Xfs, UFS, Fat16, Fat32 and NTFS.

Open Disk Imager in a Nutshell is similar to Drive Snapshot which supports backing up windows while you are using it. Quickly, easily, and reliably create a complete image backup of all the data located on your hard drive, backups made to CD/DVD/BD are bootable.īackup and restore utility that creates a snapshot of a selected partition or volume, and saves it to disk, or burns it directly to most DVD+RW+R-R-RW or CD-R/RW drives.Ĭreate complete backups of your disk partitions, including operating system, installed programs and all your settings.

Here are the programs I find for imaging and cloning in Hiren's Boot CD 15.2:Īll in one tool for MBR, Partition, Disk, VMWare Disk images vmdk/vmx/vhd, and much more.Ī Tool for making copies of hard disks with bad sectors.Ĭopy old hard drive to a new hard drive by copying the entire contents of one drive to another, CopyWipe can also help prevent confidential or private data from being recovered, by securely wiping the contents of a drive.Ĭreates and writes disk images files to hard and floppy disks.īackup any drive/partition to an image file, even if the drive is currently in use, a very good freeware alternative to Ghost / AcronisĬreates an exact Disk Image of your system into a file while windows is running.Ī hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost. I want to do imaging and cloning both, and I prefer to use two different programs for each to safeguard against failures. I'm going to be switching from a drive with a lot of bad sectors to a bigger, healthier unused hard drive.

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