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creating a disk image from an external Hard Drive

I need to image and replace old drives from desktops that are running Windows 2000 Pro.

I’m new to imaging software but we do have Norton Ghost 15 and Acronis in our library.

The hard drives are from desktops and I have a USB dock I can use to connect the IDE drives to my laptop where I plan to load the imaging software which I hope will see the drives connected in the fashion described and make the image.

Has anyone used either Norton Ghost 15 or Acronis before in this way and will this work? Initially i'm struggling to get Ghost to see the USB docked IDE drive even though my laptop can see it.

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DHPBilcare

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Thanks for the comment.

I'm currently downloading Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server Multi-platform Standard.

I'm assuming I can create the recovery disk once i've installed Acronis on my laptop?

DHPBilcare

ASKER

I guess what i'm asking is which version of Acronis is best suited for what I need to do.

Looking at the Acronis website True Image 2013 is better suited than Advanced Server?

Is that version the one your first comment was suggesting I was using?

DHPBilcare

ASKER

OK. True Image 2013 seems the best option.

Will the recovery CD clone IDE drives that have Windows 2000 Pro on them? Does this matter?

Syed Ali

Acronis has different versions for windows server or windows os
Acronis true image is not for windows server