I'm looking for an imaging solution similar to Norton's Ghost, but don't want all the 'fluff' that comes with the new Symantec Ghost Suite. All I want to do, is have the ability to boot from a CD, and load an image to a disk from another internal / external drive or other appropriate media.

Captain Frostbyte wrote: clonezilla works like a champ as long as the destination disk is the same size or larger. Smaller such as migrating to a Smaller SSD, is painful.Not so much really! The USB disk I setup always have GParted as part of the multiboot.

I run GParted, shrink the OS partition to about 5gig over the used space, reboot and start Clonezilla, then use the image partition option to the data partition. It does add a step or two to the process but nothing too bad. One of the biggest issues is getting Windows to install on a single partition, this alone solves many problems. With Linux desktop systems I just skip the swap partition. FOG will automatically pull only the used space so it is easier to image to a different size drive. Active@ Disk Image is what I went to after Ghost.

It was around the time I needed to monkey around with EFI/GPT disks as Ghost didn't support GPT disks and didn't handle imaging/restoring the EFI partition properly. Kel tec 380 serial number location. Does the usual stuff, Disk/Partition/RAW Disk to Image/Disk/Partition. You can create a bootable USB disk with it, once in the program you have a basic set of tools like cmd prompt, a explorer shell, partitioning utilities etc.

One feature I really like was the ability to connect a USB drive without rebooting. The desktop program is pretty lightweight as well, I've not really used it much. Created a live Disk image of the same computer it was installed on, never tried to do a restore with it.