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The default free software recommendation for cloning a hard disk, Clonezilla, is actively and aggressively user hostile, like many programs from the world of Linux. But it's free, and comes with the special sparkle of being open source, so it gets recommended a lot.
This has led me to have many bouts of swearing and struggling with balky upgrades than I can count. But it seemed all the user-friendly alternatives that I could find were for-pay products that haughtily refused to clone a boot disk unless you forked over tons of money for the pro version.
Now, I have finally, finally found a free trial app that lets you clone a system disk, with no fuss or bother about size, without having to jump through an intricate dance of copying each individual partition and hoping it would still boot when all was done.
Disk Genius is one of those rare birds, a for-pay app where the free version is actually extremely useful and capable. It's almost never recommended for partition wrangling and cloning, because it's marketed as a data recovery app... but what it actually is, is a universal, do-everything tool for dealing with computer storage devices and the data on them, including cloning, partition resizing, and recovering lost data, lost drives, etc. And now, finally, I can tell clonezilla and its user-hating interface to not let the door hit its ass on the way out.
Disk Genius: one of those apps that you wonder where it was hiding from you all these years. A+. Highly recommended.
This has led me to have many bouts of swearing and struggling with balky upgrades than I can count. But it seemed all the user-friendly alternatives that I could find were for-pay products that haughtily refused to clone a boot disk unless you forked over tons of money for the pro version.
Now, I have finally, finally found a free trial app that lets you clone a system disk, with no fuss or bother about size, without having to jump through an intricate dance of copying each individual partition and hoping it would still boot when all was done.
Disk Genius is one of those rare birds, a for-pay app where the free version is actually extremely useful and capable. It's almost never recommended for partition wrangling and cloning, because it's marketed as a data recovery app... but what it actually is, is a universal, do-everything tool for dealing with computer storage devices and the data on them, including cloning, partition resizing, and recovering lost data, lost drives, etc. And now, finally, I can tell clonezilla and its user-hating interface to not let the door hit its ass on the way out.
Disk Genius: one of those apps that you wonder where it was hiding from you all these years. A+. Highly recommended.
