36 right now, but nice and sunny here and will go up to 68 today. Neighbor rototilled a small area for us so we can have a veggie garden this year. With prices going up on food that prompted us to grow our own! Need to wait 'til all danger of frost has passed. We had a blizzard here one year on May 15th which is when the old timers say it's safe to plant!

Er..That's what it says on the box.
Now don't get me wrong.
O&O Software GmbH Germany produces good quality software for cloning or recovering purposes.
But this free version is crippled in a way you can't restore your system partition with it
(usually C:/ ).
You will have to use the pro version for this.

But it is a nice program in case you have multiple partitions ,and you're putting your Documents Folder ,emails and other precious things on another partition (D:/ etc..).No problem cloning/restoring that one.Might be useful for cloning an entire second drive too.

Most probably it can even restore multiple boot systems (except for the primary C:/ partition that is).But I won't jeopardize my computer system right now.I hoping to buy a new computer,just like Sue is.

Copmom ,You're welcome,anytime.

BTW It's a nice and sunny day over here.
:)

O&O DiskImage Express is free software which enables you to image your entire computer and restore single drives. Robert are you saying it just do C: only, not do C: & D:drive or do you mean if 2 harddrive's one only,can you do drive # 1 then # 2 or not!

Robert.. thanks for finding that old thread.. I couldn't for the life of me. I think I'll also duplicate my post here to that thread, so I can properly thank Penneddragon!

About O&O DiskImageExpress:

"Restoring a system partition is only possible with the Professional, Workstation or Server Edition of O&O DiskImage. You will also need those versions of the program for restoring an image if you have only one partition on your hard disk containing both the operating system and your personal data."

http://www.filehippo.com/download_oo_diskimage_express/

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O&O DiskImage Express 3.5.26
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Hi Copmom,
The original thread was here.
Penneddragon suggested the use of the manual-proportional option of Acronis.

I guess congrats are in order.Glad to hear you managed!
:)

UPDATE Can't find the thread where we originally put this, so I'm bringing this thread back up again. I originally had made a ghost of my 160GB to my 320GB HD and then I ended up with TWO 145GB HD's! I lost

all

Ycopy | http://www.ruahine.com/faq.html may work? KB953356 Stop Note We do not support using Sysprep to install an operating system from an image if the image

was created by using a computer that has a different processor. For example, you cannot create

a Sysprep image on a computer that has an Intel processor and then deploy the image to a computer that has an AMD processor.STOP: 0x0000007E not that I did this, allso can only use 3 times so say http://www.microsoft.com

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-drive-imaging-program.htm
if you like free

OK.. so that kinda answers that question. Guess I'll just bite the bullet and/or switch my c: and F: drives so the smaller one is the ghost.
After yesterday I'm more paranoid about this. Hubby's computer went bonkers! Tried to 'fix' it, changed HD's.. more errors, spent lot of time looking up error fixes on here and then trying on his machine. Other older machine isn't working great either. Time to replace computers and donate older ones to Goodwill or somewhere (MINUS the hard drives!) Maybe they can make use of the bits and pieces.

if you're setting it up as a change-drive-boot-system disc image, it may require (check the docs) moving that stuff off, imaging, then adding a partition and moving it back, or you might be able to partition, move your stuff to the extended (second) partition and tell Paragon not to mess with it.

I dunno, ghost 2001 has always nuked the entire drive.

Question! No one has ever answered my one big question! I want to ghost my C drive to my 2nd HD, I do have several things on that spare HD, and wondered if I ghost my C drive to that, will it overwrite what I already have on it, or should I partition it (it's 300GB), put what I have on there in a separate partition, so that when I ghost my C it can then run as an independent main C drive should the need arise??

No idea rabbit. I just buy it at the regular grocery store in the ice cream section. They come in small containers. A bit more expensive than the regular full size ice cream containers, but sometimes the store has buy 1/get 1 free. That's when I buy it.

Wait: here you go... http://www.benjerry.co.uk/wheretobuy/

Can I get those in the UK copmom? :) Sounds yummy.

Good point rezidue! Now that you're mentioning chocolate chip cookies.. found a really yummy ice cream to satisfy a sweet tooth. Ben & Jerry's "Coffee Heath Bar Crunch". Boy is it good! Also, their mint chocolate chip!

In the end it's all subjective. What works for some might not be for others (preference wise). Just because I like chocolate chip cookies doesn't mean someone else should (although chocolate chip cookie haters should probably have their heads checked by a psychiatrist and be put on medication to get the area of the brain that is creating said disdain for chocolate chip cookies to function normally...). Joking of course...

Already ordered Paragon Drive Copy.. should be here any day now. I think it was around $19.99 as I recall. Got notice it was shipped on 8/5. I can always return within 30 days if not happy.. ordered through Serif.

Hi Copmom! Definitely Acronis - it's fast - excellent compression of archive size and seems to work flawlessly (IMHO) :-) - Regards

Nope.. all my HD's seem to be Western Digital, and they don't offer anything like that! Rats!

If it seagate Harddisk DiscWizardSetup.en.exe is free it to setup new harddisk

I guess I do have room to partition since I've only used 144GB out of 298.

I always thought v9 was latest version.

Not encouraging you to partiton your hard drive.

I did mine when installing xp made 8 partitons then ran vista upgrade.

I did though need to resize one few weeks ago and Paragon Partition Manager v9.0 Professional is the dogs gonads.

Lee: That's the price I paid on the link you sent. I don't have my HD partitioned, so are you suggesting that I partition my 300 GB 2nd HD and put the Drive Copy in a partition so I don't lose anything else on it?

Here's a description from Serif's email I got about Drive Copy:
From Serif:
"System Upgrade? Make light work of complicated migrations!

Remember when upgrading to a new hard drive meant hours of downloading your data, applications, and operating systems to disk; then hours more of reinstalling everything to your new hard drive? Not anymore!

With Paragon Drive Copy 8.5 you can quickly and easily create an exact copy of your hard disk or even an individual partition, including the operating system, applications, preferences, settings and data, in just a few simple clicks!

An intuitive wizard-driven interface makes installing or backing up hard disks and restoring previous backups a breeze, taking all the stress out of normally time-consuming operating system tasks and applications. These tasks can even be automated to run on a regular basis making your life significantly easier and giving you peace of mind in case of a system failure.

Paragon Drive Copy 8.5 is excellent value for money and incredibly easy to use, having already scooped a number of excellent reviews and ratings on the web. Click to order your copy now and be ready when disaster strikes!"

Best thing paragon do is, Paragon Partition Manager v9.0 Professional imho.

What you mentioned copmom in the UK at serifs site you can get it @33% off around $18
or £9.95.

http://www.serif.com/SerifExtra/TemplatePages/Product/668/9178/1.htm

Hi tommy1.. good memory! What I did do was Paragon Drive "Backup", and I do have the CD here for HD C: failure and backed up to drive F:
But, that's not a total clone/copy/ghost - whatever. At least I don't think it is. Why am I getting so confused between 'back up' and 'copy'? But when I read the detailed description on Paragon's web site, there are some differences.
For some reason (and I've learned a lot about computers over the years), I seem to have a mental block (comprehension) on what does what!!!
It's my understanding that backing something up doesn't cover all the background things like registry, etc. It's more like Window's XP backup/restore, isn't it?

Copmom, didn't you do this earlier this year with Paragon?

see thread

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3261#post-28956

Tom

Well, I ended up ordering Paragon Drive Copy (not Paragon Drive Backup). I had gotten an email from http://www.Serif.com offering me the above for $19.95 and I've gotten things from Serif many times in the past, like a digital camera as well as their programs. They always offer a 30 day money back guarantee, so it's on it's way. The main thing is that it works for me. I've got a spare 120 GB HD just sitting here from my old machine. I kept the 2 HD's when I gave that old 733 computer away. I'll format that and use it for a spare when this one drops dead. I'm using that in an external case. I've also got a 300 GB 2nd HD in this machine. Errrr only one problem.. the 120 is IDE and this machine is SATA! That might not work after all if my current C: drive dies!
Quick question.. IF I have a lot of stuff on my 300 GB on here, and copy the C: drive to that, would it remove all the other stuff I already have on it?

Personally, I use ghost 2001 and the freedos option in the ubcd to image win2k partitions both fat32 and ntfs- it's worked fine so far, fwiw. iirc ghost 2001 includes the linux filesystems as of then, though later efitions dropped linux support.

dos 5 ought to work, the abandonware sites have ms-dos 6.22 and ibm-dos 7 available- but the ultimate boot cd's freedos does better with big partitions (that's the format I use) and it's free and legal for sure.

In straight clone mode ghost shouldn't care. I think.

Hi Lee,

I wonder,does an old dos version of ghost on a bootable cd(let's say 5.O )support imaging and restoring Vista?