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EaseUS Disk Copy makes it utterly simple to create a bootable disk for your system on a CD or DVD, USB drive, or ISO image file, and use it to copy or clone disk partitions and recover data and partitions from backups, including sector-by-sector copying for total compatibility. With it, you can perform disk operations that usually require more than one drive (even more than one computer), such as recovering a backup of your main drive.
EaseUS Disk Copy is fully portable, so it runs as soon as you click its program file without having to be installed, even from a USB drive or similar device. The program's disk wizard is a simple dialog box with three choices for creating a bootable drive, with drop-down lists for multiple destinations: USB, CD/DVD, and Export ISO (you browse to select a destination for an ISO file for further use). We inserted a blank DVD-R into our disk tray, and EaseUS Disk Copy's built-in burning software recognized it. We selected CD/DVD and pressed Proceed. Immediately the software began analyzing our system and burning our bootable drive. The whole process was finished quickly. We removed the disk and labeled it, since a bootable disk you can't find or identify doesn't help much when your system is kaput. We reinserted the disk, rebooted out system, accessed the boot menu, and selected CD-ROM. As it should, our system booted to EaseUS Disk Copy's menu.
At this point we could choose to continue into Disk Copy, boot from the first hard drive, or select an additional partition to boot from (handy for multi-OS systems). We selected Disk Copy, and the program's disk copying and cloning wizard opened. This wizard walked us through each step of choosing a disk or partition as well as operations and options. The sector-by-sector option takes more time and uses more space, since it creates a one-for-one clone of your disk.
For a simple, free way to create bootable disks to use with backups and to copy your hard drives and partitions, it's hard to do better than EaseUS Disk Copy.
Publisher's Description
From Chengdu Yiwo Tech Development:
EaseUS Disk Copy Home is a free disk/partition clone software for home users only. Regardless of your operating system, file system and partition scheme, through creating a bootable CD it can sector-by-sector copy you disk to assure you a 100% identical copy of the original one. It is a perfect free tool for Data Recovery Wizard to recover files from a backup disk.
With built-in burning feature, it can automatically create a bootable CD/DVD or USB disk to copy entire disk easily. Partition copy: Copies one partition to another sector by sector with a bootable CD. Disk copy: Clones one disk to another sector by sector with a bootable CD. Sector by sector copy: Makes physical 1:1 copies (clones) of hard disks and partitions which ensure 100% identity to the original.
What's new in this version: Version 2.3.1 has built-in burning feature, it can automatically create a bootable CD/DVD or USB disk to copy entire disk easily.
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All versions:
3.9 starsout of 93 votes
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Current version:
3.1 starsout of 12 votes
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My rating:
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"Works great. Did all I needed."
Version: EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1
Pros
Easy to use and fast.I needed to set up a drive for an ACER recovery attempt. I used other software several attempts with poor results. EaseUS DISK COPY HOME worked.
Cons
I wish there was a portable version.
Summary
Good program
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"Copied everything on my hard drive"
Version: EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1
Pros
I wanted to upgrade hard drive to a new one, and so was looking for a disk copy tool. easus disk copy works perfectly, doing exactly what i want. the sector by sector copy is safe and reliable.
everything on the old hard drive was copied to the new one. and the computer booted from the new hard drive.Cons
sector by sector copy might be a little bit slow
Summary
good
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"After re-install of windows will not activate"
Version: EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1
Pros
Clean user interface
Cons
After re-install of windows will not activate
The email support address doesn't work.
I mount a system backup from a different machine. It mounts ok, but cannot be accessed.
I get "F:\ is not accessible - media is write protected"
I had tested the mount on the first machine with no problem.
With incremental backup the result was success, but mounting the image, succeeds but cannot be accessed. So every day you need to try the mount, and delete the incremental backup, the run the backup again.
I haven't had any luck restoring Windows 8 from a backup.Summary
Don't pay for this. Use the free version, and test recovery on a test machine.
I posted this review for the wrong product, I was talking about Easeus ToDo Backup Home.
Updated on Mar 28, 2013 -
"did not work for me"
Version: EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1
Pros
looked it like it was going to deliver
Cons
Founds 22 Gb worth of stuff and recovered it so I thought great! But none of the recovered content was actually readable. a waste of $70
Summary
Don;t waste your money. was doing for my kid, now he'll learn to back his stuff up.
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"Try it you continue to use it."
Version: EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1
Pros
Easy to use and directions are very intutive manner.
Cons
No cons that I found. Get its
Summary
This fills a much need for all Computer for Backups
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"won't run on Windows XP"
Version: EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1
Pros
none, could't make it run.
Cons
I downloaded it several times. Wouldn't run on Windows XP.
Summary
Something is wrong with the current version.
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"Garbage!!!"
Version: EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1
Pros
Don't know. Won't work
Cons
Downloaded 3 times. Each time got a message that the startup file was corrupted and to download again.
Geting help from the website is worthless. Too many things to navigate through to get to support and contact.Summary
For domething so highly rated, this is not the sort of thing I expect. I have asked for a refund. I hope I get it.
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"Easy to use, but..."
Version: EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1
Pros
I found the software very user friendly.
Cons
However, when I plugged the disk in after about three hours of cloning, something had happened to the boot sector and it wouldn't boot.
Summary
I'd actually like to know just what happened so I could avoid making the same type of mistake should I ever want to use EaseUS again in the future.
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"Can't handle multiple partitions"
Version: EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1
Pros
Didn't use it long enough to find out
Cons
The first backup I tried to an NAS was about 200GB across 8 partitions (yes, I'm a developer and I partition my disks accordingly). After 2 hours it had backed up 288MB and showed 105 hours to go. Looking at the performance monitor, the disk was running 100% (and virtually nothing else could be done) but disk transfer rate was almost non-existent - in the neighborhood of a few mb/minute (normal is > 10mb/sec.). Obviously the program issued enough requests that the disk just thrashed trying to keep up and couldn't transfer data effectively. Cancelling the backup and the system returned to normal.
Summary
Maybe it's ok if you have one or two partitions, but with multiple ones it's completely worthless. No idea how restore works - I never got that far.
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"Handy tool with basic layout."
Version: EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1
Pros
- Straight forward instructions
- Copied everything down to the drive letter
- Easy as 1_2_3Cons
- Saving file a bit cumbersome
- Initial load/start-up seemed to hangSummary
Couldn't have been easier to work with this software. I had both my computers connected to the internet in order to read the instructions while downloading the file and completing the operation. I also had to restart the computer I worked on a couple of times as the program seemed to hang at a certain point in the beginning. Results were outstanding!
