Just after a free (or free trial) disk cloning utility, like symantec ghost. Tried draggletails great website (got some other bits and bobs off there) but couldn't find it a sweep of the nets coming up with crap + I like to be recommended software :)

Acronis! (http://eu.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/) Not free, but you can get the older version for about £10.
Acronis has never failed to restore my images, even bare metal installs. :thumbsup:

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Acronis! (http://eu.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/) Not free, but you can get the older version for about £10.
Acronis has never failed to restore my images, even bare metal installs. :thumbsup:

Cheers sav, might have a pop on the trial. :)

Acronis! (http://eu.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/) Not free

For a freeware solution, have a look @ RSJ HD Image (http://www.rsj.de/stage/en/hdimg/default.asp) (which I linked to in March here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=273378)) :thumbsup:

That is a good tool

Acrons is good, but its only a 15 day-trial version:
http://www.download.com/Acronis-True-Image-Home/3000-2242_4-10168093.html?cdlPid=10744891

There is also Easeus which is completely free ware:
http://www.download.com/Easeus-Disk-Copy/3000-2242_4-10457675.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10804715

For a freeware solution, have a look @ RSJ HD Image (http://www.rsj.de/stage/en/hdimg/default.asp) (which I linked to in March here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=273378)) :thumbsup:

Cheers sccux I missed that post. Can you disk to disk with it as that's what I'm intending to do?
Cheers

Can you disk to disk with it as that's what I'm intending to do?

Not directly (which I think is the same with Acronis/Ghost et-al).

You can burn the image to disk, then stick the cd/dvds into a new PC and restore the image to another HD:thumbsup:

Not directly (which I think is the same with Acronis/Ghost et-al).

You can burn the image to disk, then stick the cd/dvds into a new PC and restore the image to another HD:thumbsup:

Ghosts extremely easy you just put both hdds in the computer and clone one to the other in 5 minutes, I wanted something like that but beggars can't be choosers. I'll use one of the tools suggested and burn it to a dvd and restore it from that. Needs to be done tonight thats all.
Cheers

The free Ultimate Boot CD has several ghosting/partition managers. I used one the other day to successfully transfer a HDD with XP to a different HDD.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

I posted this the other day - it is imaging as well as back-up software.

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=354833