Best Boot Drive Imaging Software

[Dathaeus]

Hey guys, would like a general consensus on what you think is the best to use to backup a boot drive to an external so that if anything goes wrong on the internal boot, I can just pop a new drive in there and image/recover it back over easily, no frills, high reliability... and of course free is always good as long as it works for this one purpose:

 

Acronis True Image

Norton Ghost

Clonezilla (free/open source)

G4L (free/open source)

BackupPC (free/open source)

Bacula (free/open source)

(Any Linux app, Ghost, ddrescue, etc....)

 

(If applicable, Windows XP Pro and will have many programs installed, and possibly large files, i.e., HD video files, going from a 1TB internal to a 1TB external)

[Phil]

xxclone is free and very thorough.

[Nemo]

I vote Acronis True Image.

[Yoosty]

I have one friend that swears by Norton Ghost and another that likes Acronis True Image. But from past experiance with Norton, I would give my vote to Acronis True Image. :thumbs-up:

[JJRKOC]

I've used Norton Ghost for a really long time but I recently switched to Acronis. It works great.

[devit]

acronis

[mesh]

xxclone looks neat, does it work with vista?

[Mirkin]

For my part, I like ghost, I guess it comes from using it almost daily for the last several years.

 

Never had a problem with it, as long as the external drive was USB, though I would think ESATA would also work