First post, by porksmuggler
I'm looking for an all in one solution, but Macrium, Aomei, etc. have all gone paid for system drive cloning / imaging I believe. I demoed the latest MiniTool version, and its the same. Phil has an older version of it on his site, but I haven't demoed it to see if it does all of the above. I read Clonezilla may not preserve alignment.
So what's the best option? Any free / open source software to do it all, or should I just make a simple copy of all files, system / hidden included, then use something like BootIce to restore the MBR, PBR. Or should I just fdisk / format the new drive as normal, align with MiniTool 9, then copy the backed up files over.