Opinions on free hard drive imaging software

I bought a netbook recently and it came with Win XP Home and I put XP Pro on it. The recovery disk that came with it is for Home as well. Now that I have all my updates and drivers installed, I'd like to make an image of the hardrive in case something happens. I wanted to know what everyones opinion is on the free versions out there and what you have used and liked. Thanks.

Jeremy

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dynamik

Acronis True Image.

jbrown414

I saw Acronis had a trial version for home. I also saw that you could make a bootable cd from it. Will there be an issue with creating a bootable cd and the trial period running out?

paintb4707

jbrown414 wrote: »

I saw Acronis had a trial version for home. I also saw that you could make a bootable cd from it. Will there be an issue with creating a bootable cd and the trial period running out?

Acronis is pretty dumb with their licensing. The bootable CD isn't on a license, so essentially you don't even need the program to backup/restore an image.

brad-

I'm interested to see if there is even a free HD imager out there. I havent googled it yet.

kalebksp

For home hot-imaging I like DriveImage XML, free for personal use.

Tryntotechit

Most of the free trials that I have ever tried have most of their components disabled. You have to buy it to use everything.

jbrown414

Well, I'm just looking for a one time use type of thing.