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On 3/10/14, 4:16 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:05:00 -0500, HanK wrote:

On 3/10/2014 1:08 PM, wrote:
On Sunday, March 9, 2014 10:27:31 PM UTC-4, HanK wrote:
What are you guys using?

What are you trying to accomplish? Just make an image? Duplicate the drive? Back ups?

I want an image so that all software, registries, partitions, and data
files are copied in case of disater. I am using memeo automatic backup,
but I'm not sure that gets everything.

Disk Wizard makes a bit by bit copy, all data and partition
information if you do a full drive copy or you can do it a partition
at a time.

What? Windows doesn't include software to do a complete backup of a hard
drive?

My *free* version of the latest Mac OS software includes software to do
a complete reinstall of what was on a failed (or sold) hard drive.
Before I sold my 2009 iMac, I made a Time Machine backup of its drive
and when the new iMac arrived, I simply restored it all onto the new
machine's SSD. Didn't take that long, and when I came back from lunch,
everything was done.

I also use an app called SuperDuper, which takes an image of what's on
the hard drive and can easily restore a hard drive. Both Time Machine
and SuperDuper have many options for backups and restores.

Oh, and the hard drives in a Mac have a partition that reinstalls the
operating system, if you like. If the drive fails and Apple installs
another, *that* drive will have the OS on it, and if you have a backup
as I've described, you simply reinstall everything.

Windows registries...nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. How...obsolete.