Drive Backups

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I'd like to do some drive imaging on my old windows equipmen... - Feb 13, 2024 by Erik Friesen  

We are using Macrium Reflect which is free to use if you wan... - Feb 14, 2024 by Kristof_K  

We also use macrium reflect and a usb/ide adapter to image a... - Feb 14, 2024 by Tom  

Our IT company came in and did that for us. They used Acroni... - Feb 14, 2024 by MistrThou  

MiniTool Partition Manager is the easiest way to clone a har... - Feb 15, 2024 by RichC  

Strictly speaking none of the "free" tools that ha... - Feb 15, 2024 by Spoiltforchoice  

Acronis is the way to go and the cost is reasonable. https:/... - Feb 16, 2024 by redspare1  

I unsure on this, that it would actually work on my CP45 for... - Feb 16, 2024 by Erik Friesen  

You will need an old version of acronis. I think 2014 uses 5... - Feb 16, 2024 by redspare1  

We even used a usb to ide adapter. ... - Feb 16, 2024 by MistrThou  

Erik Friesen

#90561

Drive Backups | 13 February, 2024

I'd like to do some drive imaging on my old windows equipment for backups, mainly boat anchor prevention.

Heller, CP45, DEK, various shades of XP embedded. There aren't many good options that I'm finding, for sure not in new software.

Any ideas? Or just fiddle my way through Clonezilla or DD?

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Kristof_K

#90562

Drive Backups | 14 February, 2024

We are using Macrium Reflect which is free to use if you want to use disk backup or cloning.

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Tom

#90567

Drive Backups | 14 February, 2024

We also use macrium reflect and a usb/ide adapter to image all of our machines for backup.

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MistrThou

#90568

Drive Backups | 14 February, 2024

Our IT company came in and did that for us. They used Acronis. Some of that software allows a a bootable USB to run over the computer's hardware rather than pulling the physical drive and plugging it into a laptop with another external drive.

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RichC

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Drive Backups | 15 February, 2024

MiniTool Partition Manager is the easiest way to clone a hard drive that I've found - free too !

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Spoiltforchoice

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Drive Backups | 15 February, 2024

Strictly speaking none of the "free" tools that have successfully polluted any search result for disk cloning are free for business use. On top of that many of them are lies and don't function fully unless they are the paid version. And as the OP is pointing out most do not cover XP let alone XP embedded which is probably missing things like Volume Shadow Copy that the modern programs are relying on. You are going to want to use a bootable stick of some kind, a firm that has an IT dept or service contract probably has these tools.

I would stick with clonezilla/dd/partclone from a bootable stick if you are comfortable with them or you could look at foxclone.org which puts a friendly face on partclone - does need to run on a 64bit machine tho' so probably not something running XP embedded (PentiumD / core2 onwards).

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redspare1

#90588

Drive Backups | 16 February, 2024

Acronis is the way to go and the cost is reasonable. https://www.acronis.com/en-us/products/true-image/ You install this on a modern windows PC, make a bootable USB or CD-ROM. Then boot your old computer and save to USB or hard drive. You can also save over LAN to a windows share.

They changed the license around a little. It used to be called acronis true image home.

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Erik Friesen

#90590

Drive Backups | 16 February, 2024

I unsure on this, that it would actually work on my CP45 for example. It is windows XP embedded with 128mb ram. The second question really, is, would this boot a new IDE drive on XP? I'd be curious if anyone has had to do this and it worked.

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redspare1

#90591

Drive Backups | 16 February, 2024

You will need an old version of acronis. I think 2014 uses 512mb ram. Just move the machine drive to a newer computer that has an IDE slot. IDE can also do CF with an adapter.

You're basically running an PC with nothing in it, just booting acronis, your machine drive will be read, the copy your data to another internal drive or LAN windows share with no password ideally.

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MistrThou

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Drive Backups | 16 February, 2024

We even used a usb to ide adapter.

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