
Sadly, this is not the end, because over time as you continue to use your personal computer you install different softwares when the need arises. More often than not, many of these sofwares are bloatware that you necessarily don't require for your daily computational habits. From the very first moment that you own a personal computer your operating system is mostly preloaded with various software applications for general purpose usage. This entry was posted in software tech, tech by john_user. There is NO Restore to dissimilar hardware in free version!īackup is a hidden full system mirror that can take over should the original become damaged Restore to different / smaller? partitions YUMI is great for a multiboot USB device, it is the first multibooting USB creator that works most of the time, and it has worked with almost everything I’ve tried so far. Tutorial and plugin to do Bart PE yourselfįrom the comments, from the author: “And if you can only get an optical booting disk with any of these, there are numerous programs out there to turn that into a bootable USB drive, I’ve had the best luck with Unetbootin, YUMI, and Universal USB Installer. Linux(/dos from website) based bootable CD (“Create bootable USB Flash drive, CD or DVD” –from website)

“Linux Rescue CD” or “Windows” PE (Pre-install Environment) Recovery Yes (“uses Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS)”Īny backup destination – including external storages, CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs, network as well as the secured hidden partition (Backup Capsule) Yes, register on web, get email with prod key and sn Paragon Backup and Recovery (Advanced) Free Note if you’re imaging a drive you have already removed from a system, a sata-to-esata cable plugged into a esata port on a computer is very fast (you still have to provide stata power to the drive, somehow). I did not try Macrium Reflect Free because you can not restore to another drive unless you buy their commercial version. I have used Drive Image XML, PING, and Clonezilla with success. Recommendation: I have been using Paragon Backup and Recovery Free frequently and it has been reliable and has all the features i need.

Taken from the article “Best Free Drive Imaging Program” at and augmented with details from the tools’ websites.
