pow
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Wondered what you guys used?
I need a disk imager, fed up of rebuilding machines I rebuilt 3 months ago becuase of stupidity. I'm looking for a good free or cheap (£10ish) program that can sit on a USB hard disk, take an image of an entire hard disk/partition and store it to a file on that USB HDD. Also then restore it if possible.
Ideas on a postcard?
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Half Pint
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cnet has some free ones that will do just that...
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Neo
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Acronis is great from personal use.
Norton Ghost is reliable and will cost a tiny bit.
If i was you dave get yourself a copy of Acronis Home and an external HDD, could even send you it on MSN some time 
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pow
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We use Acronis here, I want it all above board this time though, I use it for external work!
Acronis it will be then! Find it for me cheap now 
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Neo
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http://www.niche2.com/free/optional-sample.php?adobe-pro=318
£13
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3496626/Acronis-True-Image-11-Home/Product.html?ptsl=1&ob=Price&fb=0&&_$ja=tsid:11518|cc prd:3496626|cat:Software
£13.99
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James_DT
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Place I used to work used either Windows Deployment Services, or booting from SystemRescueCD and using partimage, depending on which computers needed doing and where they were.
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pow
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James, the MS DaRT stuff?
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James_DT
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Nah.
The WDS stuff comes with Server 2003 SP2 & 2008, and the SysResc CD is a Linux Live CD with NTFS support (can be installed to a USB drive instead).
http://www.sysresccd.org
Both in combination with NewSID, of course 
EDIT:
PartImage is only really ideal if you're dealing with identical or very similar computers most of the time, which we were, otherwise you're going to need to keep lots of different images.
[Edited on 19-11-2009 by James_DT]
[Edited on 19-11-2009 by James_DT]
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Sam
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I'll be looking at this thread with interest, I'd rather get a free imaging program for myself than have to pay for Ghost as I'll probably ever only use it the once (see my other thread for the reason why I need one).
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Doug
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Bit for Bit image you could use FTK Imager ?
Not sure how you would restore it though?
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richardworrall
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ive got a copy of norton ghost on floppy disk, a few years old mind but does the job. used a few times to make a copy of my hard drive, works every time.
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