do you know a good freeware hard drive copying program?

[edong]

Belarc advisor could not tell the brand of the hard drive. I do not want to open the case (for personal reason).

I will appreciate if you can suggest a good freeware that will clone the hard drive into an external USB HD to a folder that I select. The external has some data on it so I will create a folder for this cloning. I do not want an image rather I prefer it to be folders and files also like the source. Thanks.

[Ron B]

DiscCopy at www.easeus.com

Or Clonezilla

[budz]

acronis true image at Western Digital.

http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en

[johns0]

Macrium.

[aedipuss]

Macrium.

free? looks like it's $40?

edong-
if all you want is folders and files then just use windows copy and paste. no other software required.

[Bjs]

Macurium Reflect - Free Edition ... the $40 on the front page is for commercial / business environment

Paragon backup & recovery 10 - Home use and includes "differential backup" ... images can be mounted for file / folder extraction similar to windows explorer view

As for user files

Areca Backup ... Incremental, differential and full backup support
Cobian Backup ... similar

[Nelson37]

There is no reason to know the brand of the hard drive. All the software needs is to recognize it.

There is no such thing as "cloning" a drive to a folder. To another drive, partition, or image file, that's it. A folder cannot be made bootable, all you need is a simple copy operation with "show all files" turned on. No extra software needed at all.

You want to copy files, not a hard drive.

[kenmo]

How about Microsoft's Synctoy.... It's free....

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d05...displaylang=en

I use it to backup my didigal photos, 3D renderings and digital paintings to an external drive....

[chavo]

I was copying data from one hard drive to another when suddenly I lost several excel files. What software can I use to recover Excel files?
Thansk in advance.

[Cornucopia]

Just copy them over from the source again...unless you didn't "copy" them?

Scott

[ron spencer]

7 year old thread????

In any case....did u cut the files or copy them?