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4/21/2009 7:32:53 PM EDT
What's the best and simplest one? It has to be a standalone boot disk, not a windows program.
4/22/2009 8:56:42 AM EDT
[#1]
look up hirems boot disk. contains most of the major utilities.
4/22/2009 9:07:36 AM EDT
[#2]
If you're familiar with Linux you can boot a live CD and use the "dd" command.
4/22/2009 10:15:04 AM EDT
[#3]
The best one I've come across is Ultimate Boot CD

Burn it to a CD (or a minimal version can be written to a floppy) and you have a whole bunch of useful tools, including a couple of disk cloners. Free too!

It's a mix of DOS and Linux applications, and depending on which tool you choose it will either start up DOS or boot a linux image.
4/22/2009 10:25:01 AM EDT
[#4]
Quoted:
look up hirems boot disk. contains most of the major utilities.


It's spelled "Hiren's", and it indeed is the best "all in one" utility disk out there.  

Easily found via torrent downloads.

It's got every major disk cloning proggy available, including Ghost and Acronis.



4/22/2009 10:56:11 AM EDT
[#5]
Clonezilla live disk.  It can handle any type of partition, and has built in NIC support for just about everything under the sun.
4/22/2009 12:07:15 PM EDT
[#6]
Acronis TrueImage, not free but works with AMD 64 bit. Ghost boot disk does not.
4/22/2009 12:09:07 PM EDT
[#7]
Ghost works on everything I've ever tried. We had a few AMD laptops a while back, I don't think they were 64 bit though.
4/22/2009 12:21:19 PM EDT
[#8]
Quoted:
Clonezilla live disk.  It can handle any type of partition, and has built in NIC support for just about everything under the sun.


+1.  I use it in my lab.