Randy, There are any number of programs out there for free that will allow you to clone a hard drive. CloneZilla is good as are others. Most of these have walk throughs that show how it's done.
I haven't cloned a personal (PC) drive in some time, so I can't offer specifics as far as software recommendations. I clone Mac drives regularly using Carbon Copy, a Mac program for cloning that's been around for years. I also use Disk Utility to make compressed image files for archive and backup purposes as well. Disk Utility is a native program that's been a part of the Mac OS for years, and it's probably one of the best things they ever put together in that regard. The PC work I've done has been enterprise level stuff, so the tools I used aren't typically available to the general public, or they're rather expensive for the average person. There have got to be some list members out there with PCs that are cloning drives. ?? Dan Sent from my iPad > On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote: > > So, can you tell me in simple terms how to do this? > > I have a portable hard drive and would like to do essentially a clone of the > hard drive on my computer. > I understand there is a way to do it by booting from a flash drive so that > the whole of C can be accessed to copy it. > I assume I could use something like ghost or clonezilla to make the copy. > The question is - exactly what do I need on the flash drive to make it > bootable and let me make the copy? > It is Windows 7 Home Premium. > > My IT guy says it is simple and he will do it for me but he is busy and > despite a number of reminders, has yet to do so. > He is good however, in the sense that when I had a hard drive going bad, he > came and got my computer and copied and replaced it all within about 2 or 3 > hours. > > Part of the business is a backup service that copies changes to files in the > night and stores it off site. However, that would not recover the whole C > drive if it was needed. > Thus, I would like to have something that could put this back where it was > pretty quickly if a problem arose. > I understand it would need to be redone pretty regularely in order to be of > much use. > > Part of the problem is that over time we tinker with programs etc and then if > we do a clean install, things don't look or work like they did before. > I am pretty happy with the machine right now and would like to be able to > preserve that look and feel. > > RB > >> On 04/02/2015 5:28 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >> Of all the times I've tried, I never got Windows to roll back using the >> native recovery utility. >> >> I'm not bashing, just relating my experience. >> >> I am a great believer in clean installs. Keep a clean image and good, >> regular backups, and when something like this occurs you just nuke and start >> fresh. It makes life so much easier. >> >> Dan >> >> >> >>> On Feb 4, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> A bit late since you have fixed it, but is there not a means of telling >>> Windows to go back to an earlier date in order to avoid issues like this >>> that crop up? >>> >>> RB >> >> _______________________________________ > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
