Good free Cloning program that is 64bit compatible?

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Corey j

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Anyone know of a good free Cloning program that is 64bit compatible? for Vista ultimate being upgraded to win7

for the specific purpose of making an exact restore-able image of the HD.
That can be copied to a reformatted harddrive after a major colaps of the os or virus damage?

I also want to be-able to do a periodic erasure of said hd for security and privacy purposes. which I would do before formatting the HD again.

I like to download a try a lot of free stuff and as you know it can mess your system up good and proper, to the point, its better to start over from a cloned image of factory settings that are up to date .:o
 

My Computer

System One

Re: Free Software List for Vista

PS to my former comment. Could not modify my last post, for its still in the approval waiting.

I would be cloning to DVD or DVD dual layer

The Boot CD or disk Would need to be made by said cloning software For I am new to the Cloning world.;) pun intended
 

My Computer

System One

I've been using this for the past few months, and I like it a lot, but I'll be perfectly honest and say that I've never tried to restore an image :p

I can't imagine it not working though, it requests that you make a live cd to recover your backup should the system become unable to boot.

Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP tx2000z
    CPU
    AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-68 Gold Edition
    Motherboard
    Quanta 305E/nVidia nForce 430
    Memory
    4096MB DDR2 PC2-5300 @ 5-5-5-15
    Graphics card(s)
    nVidia GeForce Go 6150 64MB
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio/Altec Lansing
    Hard Drives
    250GB 5400RPM SATA
    PSU
    8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
    Case
    HP Echo tx2000z
I have been using Macrium for quite a while. It is the smallest, fastest and most efficient image program you can get.

Always works perfectly for me.

I think what you want to do is create an image of the drive - store it on dvd's and then restore the image when needed.

To restore, boot the tiny rescue cd that you run off from within the macrium program - remove the macrium cd and put in the LAST dvd first.

Imaging makes a compressed backup of the used sectors on the drive. Cloning makes a 1:1 copy of all sectors on the drive.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Vista
    CPU
    Intel E8400
    Motherboard
    ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
    Memory
    4gb DDR2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    nvidia 9500GT 1gb
  • Operating System
    win7/vista
    CPU
    intel i5-8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
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