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Old 01-03-2013, 11:02 AM
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I want to try out Windows 8 so I need to make a full image of the hard drive with windows 7 in its current state. Whats the best way to do that?
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Old 01-03-2013, 11:06 AM
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I want to try out Windows 8 so I need to make a full image of the hard drive with windows 7 in its current state. Whats the best way to do that?
Acronis True Image, I just wanted to beat somebody else here to saying that.

What disk drives to you gave now? Now may be a good time to also just buy a new fast spinny disk (Western Digital Caviar Black are great) or a nice new SSD drive (Samsung 840 Pro are great) and use that for your tests.

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Old 01-03-2013, 11:11 AM
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Awesome thanks Darryl! I have an SSD right now for my OS and a WD Black for my audio. I also have a couple other misc drives for samples and backup. I really want to try W8 on my SSD and I dont think I should spend the money on another one for this right now.

Is there anything trusted to the freeware realm for this?
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Is there anything trusted to the freeware realm for this?
Not that I've used. I just stick with Acronis, but mostly I'm on Macs for audio or running Windows under VMware products nowadays so not out there trying out other imaging products.

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Is there anything trusted to the freeware realm for this?
Actually there is. Seagate used to offer a feature limited rebranded version of Acronis as Seagate Disk Wizard. You used to be able to download the .iso for free from their site and burn a bootable CD. Last I checked - which was a year or so ago the download was still there. As I recall you can only clone one drive to another but it worked with any brand drive.
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Is there anything trusted to the freeware realm for this?

Macrium Reflect is excellent freeware, I clone all my rigs with it and so far so good.
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Clonezilla, free
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Look at Windows 7 Backup (in Control Panel).

I think it can make an image backup...
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