I tried it with Clonezilla, but it seems to want to clone to the target with the only same exact partition size as the source. I am currently using Aomei for my machines and although it is not as fast as the old Ghost or SSR it does the job. It has restored my test machine several time without an issue. At one point a newest SSR failed when I tried to restore my test machine. Aomei came to the rescue and it did restore it. I am rather impressed with the features it has and the cost for the full version is very reasonable.
The free version does not contain the scheduler which is the only limitation on the free version. It is a very good product. I had a failing drive, needed to transfer to a new one. It took maybe six mouse cliks. If you need it just one time this is the way to go.
Looking for tool to copy one windows 8. My goal is for the set up of each computer to be identical. I need to be able to input the correct Windows license on the second or third or fourth computer as I do this. Can any of the above mentioned products do this so each computer will have its own license when I am finished?
As far as I know that is not possible in these 3 applications, and no other backup software may be able to do it either. That should deactivate it so you can enter a new key in the System window. From your post I understand that you have no problem filling in new license codes. As long as you change the code the moment you start up the machine, you are not into too much legal trouble.
Especially when it is a one-off job of small proportions say like 4 computers. Microsoft does have tools for deploying similar computers where you must fill in the license code when starting up such a computer, but that are solutions for companies and are not nearly as simple or clear-cut as the software discussed here in this article.
Or you could do a full restore. The downside of windows-image-backup is a bare-metal restore may take a lot of manual steps. In a production env, clonezilla is a part of fog which can do bare-metal restore via a small pxe-booted linux environment.
Thanks for the nice article! The article mentions that all 3 will backup to network, Acronis specifically mentions that it backs up to NAS. Hi Raymond, great article. One thing I did not see is how large the bootable or rescue media need to be. I have flash drives lying around from MB on up. The only thing missing is what size the resulting file s are.
Hate to go thru the whole process and find sorry, not enough space on media. We did a major comparison of resulting file sizes here: raymond. You could always get a full SP1 disc ; raymond. Does anyone use Terabyte to backup their machines? More so, even when validates… I have had more restore failures with Acronis than any other app. So… now I migrate towards Aomei because they too have the lifetime license and they really make it easy. I even cloned and restored a drive the other day and it worked great.
I really think that in these situations when you need to do such critic stuff, like backup of the system you should rely on a good and famous program like Acronis… or the free version of Acronis. I have tried many backup programs but most of these when the time comes failed. The only program that work for me is todo backup and it is also free. The option is not available in the free version…. Easeus makes the best free Windows partition program, but I am less than thrilled with Todo, so I appreciate this article and an actual email from raymond.
I have tried clonezilla and it serves the purpose in most cases. The ideal solution that I need is browsable image for linux or dual boot systems. I will greatly appreciate your help in this matter since I have spent a lot of time over the years looking for such solution. There is at least 6 different version of the 3 applications, all have different sizes, maximum is about MB for the Acronis tools.
We did some tests a few months back of imaging software compression ratio and speed, although not at max compression, they still give you a good idea. No point in us just repeating all the tech details of each app, the official website is for that…;. Nice post Raymond. Pluses: - Stable, fast and easy to use. In conclusion: Norton Ghost 15 is a must have software for everyone who cares about their computer data.
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