best free program to create ISO image of HDD ?

[MS140ukn]

i want to burn an ISO image of HDD just in case one day i need to recover pc due to a malicious program that hijacked OS..it has happened to me in the past. need a good reliable disk imaging program that is free and very easy for senior citizens to make heads or tails out of.

any ideas? i have one to got called drivelimage XML..there is also macrium free but macrium's user interface perplexes me most of the time.

 

[MoreCoffee]

i want to burn an ISO image of HDD just in case one day i need to recover pc due to a malicious program that hijacked OS..it has happened to me in the past. need a good reliable disk imaging program that is free and very easy for senior citizens to make heads or tails out of.

any ideas? i have one to got called drivelimage XML..there is also macrium free but macrium's user interface perplexes me most of the time.

ISO isn't really meant to back up a HDD it is for CD and DVD images. But AOMEI Backupper works very well as backup software and it is free.

 

[tango]

Ive used driveimage and found it pretty easy

 

[MS140ukn]

very good. ill look into your hints here. the next phase is changing option in booting from a flash drive or disk -DVDRW but I have a dilemma, I already have WD back up mode engaged..it copies files from disk C and saves within the external HDD...then there is macrium which backs up too..i should delete one of them

oh and also, which is better, incremental or differential backups?

 

[MoreCoffee]

very good. ill look into your hints here. the next phase is changing option in booting from a flash drive or disk -DVDRW but I have a dilemma, I already have WD back up mode engaged..it copies files from disk C and saves within the external HDD...then there is macrium which backs up too..i should delete one of them

oh and also, which is better, incremental or differential backups?

Do a full system backup.

 

[MS140ukn]

ive already done a full backup using drivelimageXML program. one must not take computers too lightly...one day you will face a malicious program that will hijack OS and force self to do a hard reset..which happened to me . i wasnt prepared.:crazy:

 

[MoreCoffee]

ive already done a full backup using drivelimageXML program. one must not take computers too lightly...one day you will face a malicious program that will hijack OS and force self to do a hard reset..which happened to me . i wasnt prepared.:crazy:

Yes, there are dangers. That is why I've had AOMEI Backupper for a long time doing backups for me every month or so.

 

[MS140ukn]

I kind of scrapped previous attempts to create system image as well as recovery disk.. just today, I decided to utilize my pc's backup options..added a system image file onto external HDD and created a recovery disk.. silly me -I wasn't entirely clear on how to use macrium and drive image XML or even backupper..those programs I removed already. btw, when I hover cursor over the backed up folder, it said folder is empty and I couldn't access it without admin rights...so iam assuming the backup is in there right?