I have a HP Mini with a 16GB SSD drive running Windows XP. I want to clone the entire Drive and store it on an external Hard Drive before upgrading to Windows 7. I want the option to revert to the pre- Win7 Drive image. The program must be able to see a USB external hard drive because I wont be able to store the image on the SSD.
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Norton Ghost
Acronis Trueimage is what I use for that very purpose. There is a “free” similar product from Seagate, called “Disk Wizard”:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=DiscWizard&vgnextoid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
It is supposed to work only for Seagate drives, but I’ve had success with a mixed configuration…
Other than that, there are many free Linux disk cloning utilities, many on bootable CDs