Have you ever rack your brain to search a free hard drive imaging software to take an image of your entire hard drive disk? This article will introduce you a free hard drive imaging software - EASEUS Todo Backup, which enables you to backup your whole hard disk or partition to an image and restore it or clone your hard drive disk to another.
You may need a reliable and free hard drive imaging software in the following cases: if you need to replace the slow and old computer with a new one and take all the data with you, you can backup all the data to image and store it on an external hard drive or CD/DVD and then restore it to the new computer with free hard drive imaging software; If you want to do a complete format of the computer and start off fresh or do some operations which may lead to data loss, say, partitioning your hard drive, if anything goes wrong, you would like to return my computer to the way it is now with the free hard drive imaging software; It is also a best way to backup your hard drive to secure all your data.
EASEUS Todo Backup is an award-winning and free backup and restore solution for a good reason: with detailed instruction wizards, your computer will be in a safe condition within minutes without the help of an IT specialist to backup your system state, partition and disk to other disk, external hard drive, CD/DVD. And this program is totally free to use. EASEUS Todo Backup can backup your hard drive disk to image in case of a system crash or hardware failure. It allows you to backup and restore disk or partition after viruses attack, unstable software download, hard drive failure, etc. It enjoys a good popularity among its users. Please download the free hard drive imaging software and following the steps as below to image your hard drive:
1. Install the free hard drive imaging software.
2. Launch EASEUS Todo Backup. To image your hard drive, please click "Backup" in the main window, or select "Operation" -> "Backup" from the menu bar, tool bar or action panel to start "Backup Wizard".
3. EASEUS Todo Backup will scan and list all the existing partition(s) and disk(s) information in this step. Select the disk you need to image.
Sector-by-sector backup Option
You may notice that there is an option of "Create image sector by sector" at the bottom. Sector-by-sector backup can be chosen if necessary. If you choose it, it means you prefer to backup all sectors to the image file even though there is no data on the source partition or disk. (Sector-by-sector backup will be operated automatically when there is bad sector on the source partition or unused space is less than 2%. Image backup file created sector-by-sector will produce large imaged file.)
4. Select backup image location to save the image and input the name for the image. Please save the backup archive file to different partition or hard drive, especially the removable hard drive. If you save the file on to the original place, you cannot restore the image when this original partition is corrupted.
5. Choose backup options. Here are two options: "Use Default options" and "Set the option manually".
a. Use Default options:
If you choose "Use default options" during this step, the backup image will be produced according to you previous set state.
b. Set the option manually:
If you select "Set the option manually", you can set the Priority, Compress Level, Image protection and Image Splitting options. (This option also can be changed previously in Tool -> Option)
Tips:
In menu "Tool" -> "Option", you can change "Temporary File Path" besides the settings above. If the temporary file path is the partition that you want to backup, sector-by-sector backup cannot be achieved until the path is changed to another partition in "Option" menu.
6. Add some comments to the backup image which will help you to find the image file faster.
7. This window displays the list of operations which will be performed. Click "Proceed" to start the backup creation task. The task progress will be shown in the special window. You can stop the procedure by clicking "Cancel" or use the "Back" buttons to change the task.
8. The process bars of current operation progress and total progress will be listed. After all the operations finished, there will be a pop-up window with the result notification.
After the following steps, your hard drive will be successfully backed up to an image with the free hard drive imaging software. EASEUS offers free support to its users. If you have any technical question about this free hard drive imaging software, please contact support@todo-backup.com.
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