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Free Bootable Hard Disk Cloning CD

Bootable Hard disk cloning CD, a bootable hard disk backup software that take a snapshot of your hard drive or cloning hard disk content into disk image without loading the operating system at all. All disk image that created can be used to restore your windows system later on by exacting the same state of your system files or data.

This free bootable hard disk cloning CD is extremely useful for system recovery in cases of hard disk failure or disaster.

What’s a disk image and bootable hard disk Cloning CD?

A disk image is usually created by backing up a complete sector-by-sector copy of the source medium and thereby perfectly replicating the structure and contents of a hard drive. Bootable hard disk cloning cd is a bootable rescue disk that clone your entire hard disk data or take a hard disk snapshot completely without booting the operating system.

Besides that, bootable hard disk cloning CD also useful during upgrading the hard-disk of your computer, whereby you can just create a disk image of the original hard-disk and then migrate that disk image onto the new drive. So, you don’t have to undergo the painful process of reinstalling the OS, all the software or migrating the documents from one hard disk to another. It is all done by the disk imaging software.

So, I have gather a list of free bootable hard disk cloning cd that can use to backup hard drive image / backup / ghost your partitions or hard drives like any other similar disk image commercial software.

Free Bootable Hard Disk Cloning CD List:

CloneZilla – Open Source bootable Disk Image / Disk Cloning Software (Cross Platform)

CloneZilla is an open source bootable disk image / disk cloning software that suitable for clone and restore hard disk completely either run as bootable disk cloning CD or network edition. However, this bootable disk cloning software doesn’t required any software installation, which can you download CloneZilla in form of an ISO image and burn ISO image to a CD DVD media using CD DVD burning software or load the files onto a USB flash drive or hard drive.

Once bootable Clonezilla CD is running, it has a simple interface to initiate or restore a backup. Plus more, CloneZilla can support multitude of file systems such as ext2, ext3, xfs, FAT, NTFS, and HFS+, ensuring you’ll be able to back up any Windows, Linux, or Mac systems you have.

Redo Backup & Recovery – Bootable Hard Disk Clone CD ( Windows & Linux)

Free bootable hard disk Live CD that allow you performing data backup, data recovery and hard disk clone features without booting operating system first. It has a simple user interface and easy to use tools. Like other data backup tools, you can create and store data backups or backup entire hard disk using their hard disk cloning features and stored to local storage drives or your local area network.

Macrium Reflect Free Edition – Free Bootable Disk Imaging  Rescue CD

Free bootable disk imaging software uses leading data compression techniques to create accurate and reliable images of your hard disk or partitions on your disk.

Beside that, Macrium Reflect bootable rescue CDs comes with network access and full GUI interface to recover the backups when it is necessary to do that. These rescue CDs are helpful if your Windows screws up and you are not able to login. All you do is pop in the bootable disk and run Macrium and restore your Windows installation from previously backed up image files without ever logging into Windows.

The commercial Macrium Reflect full version includes the ability to automatically verify images made, password protection of your images, a Windows PE 2.0 rescue CD with RAID support, etc.

System Rescue CD – Bootable System Rescue CD with Disk Imaging Features

SystemRescueCD is a bootable system rescue CD-ROM for PCs containing utilities that allow you to manage and edit your hard disk partitions, image your hard disk partitions (Partimage), a partition table backup and restore utility (Sfdisk), various file system tools that allow you to format, resize and edit existing partitions on your hard disk.

If you know any free bootable hard disk cloning cd that doesn’t includes on the above list. Let us know or share with us via comment! 

Posted by km. Filed in Freeware, Software, Tips, Utilities

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