Need disk cloning/imaging software for Win2K

[spiffy]

Hi everyone,

I have a HDD that is on the verge of dying -- I am trying to find a software that can clone the disk so I can preserve all the installed programs and such. But seems like all the current utilities (Ghost, True Image, etc.) are XP/Vista only. Does anyone know if there are still any reliable cloning software available for Win2K? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Spiffy

[Bjs]

http://www.clonezilla.org/ ... free

[TJohns]

Ghost (at least up to version 8.x) included a DOS version also...I regularly use a DOS boot floppy or CD to clone NTFS partitions - GHOST will read the partitions itself (calling it something like 3:2 for disk 3 partition 2) even though DOS doesn't support them.

[Ruut]

Acronis True Image v 10.0 runs perfectly on my W2k machine!

[neomaine]

I've recently used SelfImage quite succesfully for the same issue on my brothers PC. I've got a USB2 external enclosure that I put his drive in, created an image file on my PC of the old drive, put a new drive in the USB2 enclosure, wrote the old image to it. Worked great. 20gb took about a half hour to copy, little faster to put back if I remember right.

[RLT69]

Acronis True Image v 10.0 runs perfectly on my W2k machine

Hence the reason he said current versions. 10 is not the current version of Acronis True Image, Acronis True Image 2009 is. Their web site states:

System Requirements:
* Windows® Vista;
* Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition;
* Windows® XP SP 2;

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/requirements.html

Same with Ghost. If Ghost still comes with the boot disk utility - which I believe it does since it supports Linux - you can clone win2k. It really seems odd that they would drop support of win2k.

[lordsmurf]

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-personal/requirements.html

[Seeker47]

Acronis True Image v 10.0 runs perfectly on my W2k machine

Hence the reason he said current versions. 10 is not the current version of Acronis True Image, Acronis True Image 2009 is. Their web site states:

System Requirements:
* Windows® Vista;
* Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition;
* Windows® XP SP 2;

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/requirements.html

Same with Ghost. If Ghost still comes with the boot disk utility - which I believe it does since it supports Linux - you can clone win2k. It really seems odd that they would drop support of win2k.

Yes, but why (specifically) would you need to go to the later version ? Acronis 10 is still a good solution for me, in tandem with W2K. I also use the shareware DFSEE for cloning and other hard drive work, though it is not as simple to use as Acronis. It handles some things that Acronis (TI or Disk Director) don't, and vice versa -- which is why I want them all in my toolkit. It includes multiple platform versions (one for Linux among them), and does not dis-inherit older OS versions like W2K in the course of its regular, free updates.