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Easeus Todo Backup is a simple, free hard drive cloning tool for Windows
Unlike Partition Manager, there's only one version of Todo Backup, and it's totally free to use in any environment. You can clone drives and create images of your partitions all from the comfort of your Windows desktop. Performance is excellent and comparable to Macrium Reflect which has been my app of choice up until now. Since I can put Todo to work at the office as well, I'll likely be making the switch.
Todo also supports sector-by-sector copying, compression, spanning, and encryption. Image files you create can also be mounted and explored from within the application. Create a bootable rescue CD and Todo can restore images without booting into Windows. Perfect for those times when the proverbial poo hits the fan.
I love Easeus products - so much so that I'd be willing to help them re-work the English on their product page. "Are you still wasting your time to reinstall system, procedure and recover lost data when there is a system failure, crash or other unexpected damages?"
So if you want to avoid unexpected damages, start cloning your drives with Todo Backup. In the words of Mr. Sparkle, "It's disrespectful of crash!"
Bottom line: Todo Backup is a great, free application. Check it out.
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Subscribe to commentsBill MintonDec 18th 2009 7:02PM
Why switch from Macrium to an unproven solution though? I'm a Macrium user, who switched from DriveImage XML because it doesn't support MBR restores, and you have to build your own restore disk. What's the advantage this has over Macrium?
Gardiner WestboundDec 18th 2009 7:34PM
Easeus ToDo Backup is terrific in XP, not so good in Vista. The CD won't boot up Vista. The suggested BartPE workaround doesn't work. Easeus acknowledges the Vista issues in the user forums and says it's working on a solution. I hope it arrives soon.
CurtisDec 19th 2009 4:46AM
To answer Bill - $39.99. Thats the reason. Support free software!
Bill MintonDec 19th 2009 8:27PM
Macrium Reflect has a free version. Also, I run MissingBytes.net, so obviously I support free software. :-)
techpopsDec 19th 2009 11:37PM
Problems in Vista, but what about Windows 7 x64?
This looks perfect for a job i want to do right now.
eDustDec 20th 2009 6:40AM
Problems I experienced with this (Todo Backup 1.1, latest version as reviewed here):
1. It can't backup to a network drive
2. It can't restore from a network drive (documented on their forums)
3. My NAS blacklisted it because of some weird network activity, not sure why, I was just trying everything to try and get it to backup to the NAS
4. No incremental (or differential) backups
So unfortunately I can't benefit from it. Maybe it's good for directly attached drives. I'll go buy Acronis TrueImage now...
Stuart HallidayDec 21st 2009 4:44AM
If you've got at least one Seagate drive on your system then simply use the free Seagate DiscWizard tool from their web site.
I've got a ancient 40GB 2.5" Seagate USB drive and I just plug it into any system with no Seagate drive and instantly I can backup any drive to any drive.
Gardiner WestboundDec 20th 2009 4:33PM
If you require those features then Acronis it is.
In my view TI is bloatware, weighed down with features the majority don't require. It is a bit buggy, occasionally failing for no apparent reason. Have two or three backups handy and several boot disks. They don't always work.
tonygDec 22nd 2009 6:49PM
Yeah, I just used this to create a backup image of a USB drive. It did NOT backup the drive and it erased the drive in the process.... great utility - NOT!!!!
tonygDec 22nd 2009 6:52PM
OK, after a reboot I did find the drive and files in-tact, the program did not in fact wipe the data, but that was pretty scary when it crashed with an error, then Windows asked to reformat my drive!
KostazuDec 25th 2009 11:37PM
It has a nice feature set, but it's far far too slow. 500 GB would have taken 20 hours ballpark, compared to 3 hours for Macrium Reflect Free.