I uses EASEUS (booted from a CD in the docking station) to clone my 40 GB Win 7 partition on my 60 GB SSD in my X41 tablet, to a standard IDE 40 GB drive on a USB interface. This latter drive then boots fine on my X31. I guess if the SSD dies, I would use the X31 the time I buy a new disk for the X41t, then clone back.
I remember however reading something about the fact that the cloning might not be optimal, so the end result (forward, then back) would be not similar to the initial image (something related to the way the cloning is done)... Can anyone confirm this -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: mardi 8 fevrier 2011 05:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] O/T: Alternative to Acronis for backup? Hello, A few programs to investigate: EASEUS Partition Manger - http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm Clonezilla - http://www.clonezilla.org/ Macrium Reflect - http://www.macrium.com/ Paragon Hard Disk Manager - http://www.paragon-software.com/products/home/ R-Tools R-Drive Image - http://www.drive-image.com/ Runtime Software DriveImage XML - http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm TeraByte Image for Windows - http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm Perhaps one of them will meet your needs. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 10:00 AM 2/7/2011, you wrote: >Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 10:44:47 -0800 (PST) >From: Laurence <[email protected]> >Subject: [Thinkpad] O/T: Alternative to Acronis for backup? >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >O/T: Alternative to Acronis for backup? > > >I recently gave up on the current edition of Acronis backup; it >seemed like the >product and support were haphazard. Multilple patch releases to get >it working, >dumbed-down but unintuitive UI, then glaring and obvious mismatches >between the >documentation and the software. That didn't inspire confidence in >something that >needs to work the first time it's needed. > > >Is there a similar product that can do disk images, clones, standard backups >with options for incremental and differential plus can restore with hardware >changes? One reason for needing backup with a notebook is that the >machine can >easily be lost of destroyed and it's unlikely to have an identical >one handy to >restore to. I would rather not do an hours or days long rebuild of >everything on >my system - too much time down the drain. I'll do that when I move >to a new OS >and no sooner. Machine is a thinkpad T40 > >--- Larry _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
