Posted: 4/21/2009 7:32:53 PM EDT
| What's the best and simplest one? It has to be a standalone boot disk, not a windows program. |
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The best one I've come across is Ultimate Boot CD
Burn it to a CD (or a minimal version can be written to a floppy) and you have a whole bunch of useful tools, including a couple of disk cloners. Free too! It's a mix of DOS and Linux applications, and depending on which tool you choose it will either start up DOS or boot a linux image. |
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look up hirems boot disk. contains most of the major utilities. It's spelled "Hiren's", and it indeed is the best "all in one" utility disk out there. Easily found via torrent downloads. It's got every major disk cloning proggy available, including Ghost and Acronis. |
| Clonezilla live disk. It can handle any type of partition, and has built in NIC support for just about everything under the sun. |
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Clonezilla live disk. It can handle any type of partition, and has built in NIC support for just about everything under the sun. +1. I use it in my lab. |