Free Hard Disk or Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

Disk Imaging or Cloning Software is a type of software which makes an identical copy of your hard disk's structure and stores it in a file for future restore. Usually these software are on floppy or other bootable media, so that you can backup your Operating System and restore it when you cannot access it.

dd for Windows - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

A software to create/restore images of disk and can also handle ISO images of CD-ROMs.

Clone Maxx - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

This one, as mentioned in the introduction, runs from a floppy disk. It works with any partitioning setting and makes use of modern hard disks' DMA option to backup and restore data faster.

PING - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

PING runs on Linux, and makes compressed image files. It has support for numerous file systems such as: ext2fs, ext3fs, ReiserFS, FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, JFS, XFS, UFS, HFS, and NTFS.

Dubaron DiskImage - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

This software not only makes images for partitions or hard disks but also provides support for cloning USB drives, floppy disks and optical mediums like CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. It runs on Windows 2000, XP and Vista only. It is also to be noted that image files may be compressed.

SelfImage - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

SelfImage is a totally cool software with numerous features. It compresses the images it creates. It saves space by skipping unused sectors on the drive. It can even image non-Windows file system. It allows remote restore. Runs on Windows and is under the GNU GPL License.

Forensic Acquisition Utilities - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

Derived from the Unix dd, this Windows command line tool enables imaging of each sector of the storage device. It is released under the GNU GPL License.

WinDD - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

Same as Forensic Acquisition Utilities (Above).

NFGDump - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

Running on both Windows and Linux, this software enables to clone drive with the images being compressed and encrypted and spanned. Supports FAT32, FAT 16 and NTFS. Again, this one is released under the GNU GPL License.

DriveImage XML - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

This software works on Windows XP only and can create images to be restored on another drive, and not the original drive itself. You need to use a plugin called WinPE boot CD-ROM to be able to restore the original drive.

g4u - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

This software come in 2 version: floppy disk and CD-ROM one. Both of them are the same and can clone and restore any OS with any file system to another computer through FTP.

Partition Saving - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

This MS-DOS program enables you to image your Windows partition or Linux one. It supports a whole lot of file systems like NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, FAT12 and ext2. It can compress the image file and newer version of the program can run from Windows. It is an ideal tool to place on a bootable rescue disk.

PartImage - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

This software is for Linux users and enables you to make compressed image files of partitions and hard disks. The file systems supported are ext2fs, ext3fs, ReiserFS, FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, JFS, XFS, UFS, HFS, and NTFS.

RawWrite - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

A good tool for the creation of floppy disks images and bootable disks.

SystemRescueCD - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

This is a CD-ROM ISO file which has bundles lots of system utilities for PC users, allowing you to do all types of maintainance tasks like partition imaging, formatting, creating, resizing and more. There is no need for a particular Operating System or file system, the CD-ROM platform-independent.

Ultimate Boot CD - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

This is a CD-ROM ISO image and provide utilities just like the SystemRescueCD (above) with more tools like Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista password resetting tools and free virus scanning tools.

DiscWizard - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

This is one tool from Seagate, which allows you to image your old hard disk and restore it on a new Seagate one. The software can create a bootable disk.

MaxBlast - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

MaxBlast is the same as DiscWizard (above), except that this one is for Maxtor hard disks.

HDClone Free Edition - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

Quite old software, with no support for DMA and other technologies like SCSI. It only enables you to clone your hard disk to another one. Allows you to create a bootable disk.

XXClone - Free Hard Disk/Partition Imaging and Cloning Software

Works only on Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista. It copies the Windows partition to another one which would not require a restore step.