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Old May 17, 2010, 10:45 PM
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Is there a program that can make an image of an entire partition on bootable media for restoring later? For free? Looked for a while, can't find one.
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Old May 18, 2010, 05:23 AM
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wd free version of acronis should be able to i think don't quote me on it i don't use the wd version. hope it helps
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Old May 18, 2010, 03:57 PM
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Is there a program that can make an image of an entire partition on bootable media for restoring later? For free? Looked for a while, can't find one.
Sorry, have not come across any freebie backup programs that can do bare metal restore, closest is bundled software with some USB enclosures.
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Old May 18, 2010, 04:21 PM
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Is there a program that can make an image of an entire partition on bootable media for restoring later? For free? Looked for a while, can't find one.
Acronis WD Edition as gingerbee mentioned will do it for you for free as you have a WD drive.
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It is a scaled down version of the Acronis Home version. Will do a full backup, but no incremental.
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Old May 18, 2010, 11:18 PM
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Scanned through WD Digital edition Acronis but didn't think it would work as it just wanted a location on a different partition/drive to create the backup but maybe selecting blank media in the odd is all it takes to get started.
I ended up using Win 7's backup tool, as I did not know it had it till now..
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