If you simply want to upgrade from one hard drive to a bigger drive,
Casper can be fully operated with Window-Eyes - with absolutely no
sighted assistance. Have done it several times here, and it works
perfectly well. Even the very newest version is fully accessible. So, if
I got the initial request correct, that you simply want to upgrade to a
larger capacity drive, Casper is the real answer. It does make a fully,
ready-to-go copy of your old drive, so simply flip out the old drive,
insert the new one, and turn your computer back on. You will be right up
running, exactly where you left off your old drive. Absolutely no need
for reinstalling anything, and absolutely done all in blindness.
Only in cases where you need a recovery from a halted system, you may
need sighted asistance. Yet, I cannot speak for that part of the job,
since I haven't had to do that after using Casper. Make it a habit of
running a disk backup regularly with Casper, and should your current
drive ever fail, simply insert the backup drive into your computer, and
you are right up running. As such, you hardly ever would need the
recovery feature, hence just about never would need sighted assistance.
And if your system is not broken, you just want to revert back to the
state of your backup drive, you can perform that job perfectly well
without any sight, when using the features of Casper. I have been using
Casper for the last three years, and have had no need for sighted
assistance ever within that period, for my backing up, upgrading or
system migrations.
David
On 9/25/2014 10:31 AM, Samuel Wilkins wrote:
Hello Jason,
Although it isn't free, Casper may be what you want. The trial lasts for 30
days, so you can see whether it does what you want it to do. You can create
a bootable backup of your system, (in other words, copy your hard drive onto
another, which is probably what you are looking for), or an ISO image of
your hard drive. However, it should be noted that when you want to boot
from your backup, be it by a bootable backup or image, you will need sighted
assistance to help you. Hope this helps.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Symes [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 25 September 2014 08:19
To: [email protected]
Subject: accessible hd cloning
I'm using WE 8.4 and trying to find a hard drive cloning software that
works well with WE and is preferably free. I've tried Acronis
TrueImage, Paragon backup * Recovery, Drive Image XML, Macrium
Reflect, and probably a few others I can't remember, and all either
don't have direct drive-to-drive copy, or just aren't friendly with WE
in any way, shape, or form. I want to throw my Windows 7 onto a larger
drive, but I don't want to have to completely reinstall Windows.
Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks a bunch.
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