Need disc cloning software

Title says it all.

Once again, in the context of my internship, I am tasked to find a software which will clone HDDs. Price isn't an issue if it's corporate/professional, but free is nice

Thanks!

 

i recommend Acronis True image.
used it before..gets the job done well. and easy to use

 

I also recommend this.

 

Most of the main HDD manufacturers (seagate/maxtor/western digital etc) seem to have their own disc utility now (most of them based on Acronis) - just go to their website and download it for free. I've used Seagate Disc Wizard for the past two years to make clone back-ups, and its been faultless every time (in both Vista and now 7).

 

You're an it intern and you don't know how to use a search function?

This question get's asked every couple of weeks.

It goes like this:

Someone recommend Acronis, several people agree, someone tosses out that most harddrive manufacturers have a free download of something for one time jobs, then I'll toss out Clonezilla which also has a server solution, then someone will toss out a bunch of free solutions at www.thefreecountry.com....

 

+1, also, Norton Ghost can be pretty good, if the edition of it is 2003 or earlier.

 

You're being too hard on the OP. The last thread on this topic was a whole 5 days ago. I looked it up for them, and if they CLICK ON THIS LINK they too can see that not much has changed in a week...er, 5 days..

 

+1 on Norton Ghost 2003. It is faster than Acronis. Plus it is small enough to fit on a floppy along with PC DOS. We just bought a netbook for my wife and it has no optical drive. But PC DOS and Ghost boot up very quickly via an old Sony USB floppy drive I had.

Acronis is really nice, but it takes forever to boot in comparison to Ghost and is much slower to clone a drive. (I tested it side by side with Ghost about a year ago.) But to be perfectly honest that is my ONLY complaint with Acronis. I do love it's ability to seek out and restore an individual file from an image.

Gary

 

Actually the reason I asked despite the other threads(which I read btw ) was because of the nature of the context, I'm not cloning for home use but for corporate use. Therefore, I need a corporate grade cloning software that won't cause any clashes regardless of how the HDD is, what OS is on it(mostly cloning Windows and MacOS based machines) and what machine it's in.

I already thought of Acronis, but I was wondering if there were other better ones.

Thanks all

 

This is free only for today, but the highly reviewed EASEUS Partition Manager is free on Giveawayoftheday.com.

I downloaded it and am playing with it, but I do not know how well it will work out in the long term.

EDIT: My apologies, one of the disclaimers state that you are only to use this for personal use, so it wouldn't work for your needs after all.

 

Acronis is the way to go.

 

Which is why I always toss in clonezilla server edition

 

http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

 

Most IT orgs I come into contact with always stick with Ghost. I personally use Acronis but from a corp point of view, many seem to favor Symantec (Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5).

 

I have had great success with DriveImage XML for windows XP Pro. I'm not sure how it does with later versions of Windows.

There are some tricks to getting it to work right if you do an actual copy in the Windows environment, but it has never failed me.

Best of all, its free.

 

+1

I purchased Acronis true image and it works like a charm.

 

Acronis is awesome