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Senin, 03 Oktober 2011

Free Clone Hard Disk Software To Clone & Copy Your Hard Drive



One of the most annoying things about owning a computer is the maintenance. It’s easily neglected. After all you don’t really notice the slow decline of your system’s performance, do you?

But then again it’s a delight to work on a freshly installed machine, where everything is smooth and responds quickly. But customization is tedious. And when your hard drive decides to break spontaneously, time is something you won’t have for sure.

Clone hard disk software, special data backup software that clones the structure and contents of hard disk as disk image. As cloning hard disk using clone hard disk software can consider the best data recovery method because it can restore back your entire PC, including the OS plus your data, applications, pictures, video, financial documents, settings and everything like the old hard disk data.

However, the popular hard disk backup and cloning software at this moment like Acronis True Image 9 or Norton Ghost 10 already exists are far expensive. So, I have gather free clone hard disk software list to clone or copy your hard drive in no particular order.


In contrast to Drive Backup Express, DriveImage XML is a visually very basic tool. However, it reliably creates images of logical drives and partitions and restores these to either the originating or a different hard disk.

Like Drive Backup Express, DriveImage XML applies a cloning technique that allows parallel use of the system while the backup is running. It can also do incremental backups, supplementing existing backups with what was changed in the meantime. Additionally, images can be restored without having to reboot.



This software is the easy solution to clone your hard drive . It’s comfortable to use with a sleek interface that guides you through the whole process of backing up and restoring step by step. And while a backup is running in the background you can even proceed using your system.

Both Drive Backup Express and DriveImage XML (described below) require a bootable CD, which the user has to create independently.



Backing up your data is one of those things in life that you really won’t understand until disaster strikes, by which time it’s too late. For most people who haven’t experienced data-loss, the task of backing up just seems like such a good idea in theory, but so much effort in reality.

But take my advice, use this incredible free Easeus Todo Backup software and it’ll be so easy you won’t even have to think about it. And if the worst does come to the worst, and you do lose any data, then you will be covered.


EASEUS Disk Copy creates sector by sector clones of partitions or hard disks, independent of operating system, file systems or partition scheme. It’s a versatile tool for both the novice and experienced user.

Just like CoolZilla, it’s not installed locally, rather the ISO image is burned to a bootable CD or DVD.

The website is probably the best of all tools described here. The information is thorough and very clear, including a very detailed help section that will walk you through every aspect of the program.

Do you clone and copy your hard drive? If so, which program do you use? Can you recommend any particular program to us? Let us know in the comments.


CloneZilla is an open source and cross platform tool to make a copy of a hard drive and also to restore them afterwards.

It’s a tough tool for non nerds as it requires some background knowledge. First of all it’s not a software you install on your computer. You download CloneZilla in form of an ISO image or ZIP file and burn the image to a CD or load the files onto a USB flash drive or hard drive.

The next step is to reboot the computer from that medium you created, which may require going into the BIOS and allow booting from a CD or USB device.

Once the tool is running, it’s easy to use the simple interface to initiate or restore a backup. There also is sort of a screenshot walkthrough on the CloneZilla homepage, where you can view some of the options before running the tool.



XXCLONE is Windows software. The tool can create a self-bootable clone of a Windows drive as well as full backups of non-system volumes. Basically, it can make a hard drive image.

The interface is basic and clear. When started, the tool scans for available volumes and you can then choose a source and target volume from these. A direct link to the Windows Disk Management is provided through the “diskmgmt” button. Under the “Tool Cools” tab you can make use of options such as making the target volume self-bootable, manage restore points or create a batch file to save your current settings for future re-use.

The download section of the website provides a thorough help file that contains screenshots and descriptions of all features.



Once HDClone has created the bootable floppy or CD for you, you can use bootable images CD or floppy to boot your computer and copy the drive content to the new (installed) drive, using a graphical interface. Besides copying complete drives, it is also possible to apply it to certain partitions only. Plus more, the best features using HDClone was AutoExpand functionality.  HDClone will automatically auto-expand a volume to meet the size of the volume partition that it is being copied to.

However, HDClone Free edition only supports cloning IDE/ATA/SATA hard disks only. Plus with disadvantages of HDClone Free edition is limited 600 MB per minute restriction and use for home user only

Redo Backup & Recovery – Bootable Hard Disk Clone CD (Windows & Linux)


Redo Backup & recovery bootable live CD comes with a simple user interface and easy to use tools. Like data backup tools, you can create and store data backups or backup entire hard disk image using their disk cloning features to local storage drive. Meanwhile, Redo Backup will automatically search the available shared folders on your network so you can use them for remote backup of individual files or an entire disk image. Plus more, Redo Recovery also allows us to recover accidentally deleted files by searching the entire hard disk drive for the deleted files, and save them to another storage drive.

Besides that, Redo Backup & Recovery Backup CD also comes with other utility tools as below:

GParted Tools - Hard disk partition software that allow you edit, manage, and resize partitions to take full advantage of your drive’s capacity.

Firefox – Provides Internet access to download drivers or read documentation through integrated firefox  

Drive Reset – Be sure all personal or business data has been removed by using the drive reset utility. This ensures that no private information is left on the disk before selling or giving an old PC away.

Redo Backup & Recovery Live CD does not not occupy more than 75MB and can burn into live CD directly using CD DVD burning software or burn into USB drive.

So, Redo Backup & Recovery Live CD is a nice great backup and disk recovery solution, especially you not able access your hard drive data through operating system.

Macrium Reflect Free Edition – Free Bootable Disk Imaging  Rescue CD


Free bootable disk imaging software uses leading data compression techniques to create accurate and reliable images of your hard disk or partitions on your disk.

Beside that, Macrium Reflect bootable rescue CDs comes with Network access and full GUI to recover the backups when it is necessary to do that. These rescue CDs are helpful if your Windows screws up and you are not able to login. All you do is pop in the bootable disk and run Macrium and restore your Windows installation from previously backed up image files without ever logging into Windows.

The commercial Macrium Reflect full version includes the ability to automatically verify images made, password protection of your images, a Windows PE 2.0 rescue CD with RAID support, etc.

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