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Top 27 Free and Discount Disk Image/Drive Clone Apps. Guide to choosing the best one easily

User Guide

Disk Image/Drive Clone (Wiki) consists of software for disk imaging and drive cloning.
• Disk imaging, also known as bare metal backup, means the software can back up the entire disk or volume, as well as all the data included, like files, programs, settings etc. It backs up all data into an image file. Please note that generally it only supports to recover the whole disk/volume from the image file, not able to recover a single file in the image.
• Drive cloning refers to the feature of copying the entire hard drive/volume to another drive.
Some software in this subcategory supports disk imaging only (e.g. Laplink DiskImage), some supports both drive cloning and disk imaging (e.g. Stellar Drive Clone, O&O DiskImage)

Contents

1 The difference between Disk image and Drive clone
2 Disk Image/Drive Clone Software Feature Highlights
3 Free vs. Paid
4 Editor's remarks
5 Best Freeware
6 Top Shareware

The difference between Disk image and Drive cloneCloning and imaging are similar in that they can both make exact copies of your hard drive's contents. When you clone a drive, you turn a second drive into a copy of the first. With imaging, you create a very large backup file from which you can recreate the drive's contents at a later date, either onto the original drive or another one.

Disk Image/Drive Clone Software Feature Highlights

Option to create a bootable disc from the image file
Unlike file-based data backup software, which backs up selected files and folders, software in this subcategory is for disk/hard drive based data backup, capable of backing up the entire disk/hard drive
Support for system/hard drive migration, even for migration to dissimilar hardware

Free vs. Paid

FREE	PAID
For personal use only Basic features only, no support for incremental backup or differential backup No support for restoring data to a dissimilar hardware	Rich features, supports incremental backup and differential backup Most supports both disk imaging and drive cloning Convenient to use, supports scheduled backup Highly secure, protects your privacy Tech support available

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