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a C-level person has left the company. They have a laptop that I need to take an image of and place on an external drive for archiving. I don't have special software to do this. Is there freeware I can do this with? or can I do this with windows xp pro sp3 which is on the laptop?

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I believe you can do this with Clonezilla. I've used it before to image disk to disk, but never disk to image, but I'm pretty sure you can do this with it.

http://clonezilla.org/

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David-Howard

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Dr. Klahn

I've found Acronis to be reliable and efficient. It can back up to any kind of drive, external or internal.

geriatricgeek

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if I use the acronis trial, and need to retrieve the info, do I need acronis to get things retrieved?

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Brian

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mayureshtodankar

As mentioned Clonezilla will be a good, else you can try to find out the manufacturer of HDD and any try manufacturer for cloning software.

Brian

@mayureshtodankar,

Please correct me if I'm wrong but why would geriatricgeek need to contact HDD manufacture for cloning software?

Clonezilla, RedoBackup and or Backup/Restore in Windows 7 will be suitable enough. All of these methods are free.

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nobus

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