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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware / Software Crap > Trying to save an image of my laptop - need freeware software recs
 
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KillHour
Oct 28, 2007

$70 of cognitive dissonance and counting

Spacewolf posted:

OK, so. I have a laptop on its last legs. It's going to get replaced eventually, but until then I have a Western Digital portable hard drive (it advertises as 1 TB but only appears to have 930 GB capacity when I look via windows) I can use for backups.

I would like to image the laptop to the portable hard drive.

Should be easy enough, were the software WD includes with their hard drive not *absurdly* slow - and I don't think it does an actual image. Because I'm only doing this *once*, I'm looking for freeware.

So, here's the specs.

My system runs Windows 8.1 x64, but by the time I get a new computer, who knows, it might use Win 9.

I'm backing up/imaging a drive that says it has 672 GB with 416 GB free.

Just so you know, the reason for this is that hard drives are measured by manufacturers as powers of 10 (so 1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes), while hard drives are measured by windows as powers of 2 (so 1TB = 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes). The technical term for the way Windows calculates this is GiB (Gibibytes). When you do the math, 1,000GB = 931.32...GiB. The other gig or so is taken up by the formatting of the drive.

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