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There’s been many, many, many times I’ve had to re-image a hard drive.  At my first job after I moved to a new city, we used “Zen Image” to pull a disk image over the network for deploying new PC’s at a school.  My most recent job we use it to clone a customers hard drive and move it to a new hard drive.

Disk imaging is a quick and easy process with various types of software.  Most are made in Linux.  I’ve used Acronis, which can be found for free if you get it from Seagate, Maxtor, or Western-Digital.  Of course it is re-branded but it’s not that big of a deal.

Anyways, to the point.

Clonezilla is a free disk imaging utility that pretty much anyone can use, assuming you know what disk cloning, imaging, reimaging, etc. even mean.

Consider this more of a resource for all the IT people out there, although they probably already know about it.

Clonezilla has pretty much the same features as many other disk imaging utilities.  Save/Restore disk, Save/Restore partitions, etc.

Give it a try.  To get it, head to their website which can be found here if you didn’t see the links above.

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I’m sure you are like me.

You’ve run into a problem, had to reformat, and didn’t keep a backup of software.  You reinstall software only to find out you have misplaced a jewel case or dvd case and you are lacking the ever-so-important License Key.  You search everywhere and are unable to locate it.

Drown those worries.

License crawler is free software that scans your registry for product keys so that you may back them up properly.   Me, I copy the entire window into notepad and print it out.  This free software ensures that you will never have to go through that frantic scavenger hunt for serials in your closet, countless spindles, booklets, etc.  Keep it all in one place and you will be good to go.

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