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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE
Enterprise-grade image backup and bare-metal restore, free for personal use.
- Licence
- Free edition
- Price
- Free (registration required)
- Platform
- Windows 10 / 11 and Windows Server
- Current version
- Version 13 line
- Developer
- Veeam Software
- Clones the Windows system disk for free
- No
- Clone to a smaller drive
- With effort
- Official site
- www.veeam.com
The verdict
Strictly speaking this is not a cloning tool — there is no direct disk-to-disk clone. What it does is take a full image of your system and restore it to a different drive with bare-metal recovery, which gets you to the same place in two steps. The engine underneath is the same one enterprises trust.
Who it is for
People who want serious, free, scheduled image backups on Windows and are happy to do drive migrations as backup-then-restore.
Strengths
- Free tier with genuine enterprise engineering behind it
- Full, incremental and scheduled image backups
- Bare-metal recovery media restores to different hardware
- File-level restore from within any backup
- No feature nagging or upsell popups
Limitations
- No true one-step disk-to-disk clone
- Requires a Veeam account to download
- Needs somewhere to store the image — an external drive or NAS
- More concepts to learn than a single-purpose cloning tool
Worth knowing
Backup-then-restore is arguably safer than cloning: at the end you still have a usable image file, whereas a clone leaves you with nothing extra if it fails halfway.
The interface
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that folder.
Before you clone anything
The destination drive is erased completely. Confirm which physical disk is which — by
size, model number and serial, not just by drive letter — and keep a separate backup of
anything irreplaceable. Our pre-clone checklist
takes about fifteen minutes and prevents most disasters.