Thread: Best hard drive image software

I'm looking for the best software to image my hard drive to either a network storage device or RW's. My hard drive is failing & I am tired of doing the daunting re-install process of everything. I need some thing that is well-matched with Vista & XP. I also need to be able to place that image on any size hard drive exactly as it appears when I made the image.

Any help would be greatly respected.

Use norton ghost is really good, and resize the partition when you use the image to restore a system.

From my understanding, Norton Ghost 14 will do what you want; it can also split disk image volumes to sizes (i.e. 4 GB) for DVDs. I think that is your best bet.

I've had such a good experience with Driveimage 7, the last version from PowerQuest, that I would buy a used copy of it somewhere if I didn't have it already. Freeware DriveImage XML is fine, but you have to jump through some hoops to make a boot CD with it, and you definitely want your driveimage program to be able to run off a boot CD or other bootable device.

Thanks for all the posts! They have all really giving me something to think about. I am currently using a free copy of Capricorns EZ Gig II software & it didn't work worth a darn until I reversed the drives & then it worked great.

I have tried a few other products but couldn't really figure out how to use them the best.

Does anyone have any screen shots, or reasons I should go with their choice?