Bare metal recovery methods

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When your operating system drive is destroyed, the only choice you have is a bare-metal recovery. If you're using one of the following operating systems, the Backup & Recovery book documents a free bare-metal recovery tool for your OS.

OS	Method
AIX	mksysb	Documented in Backup & Recovery book (Buy It)
Linux	Home-grown	Read Free Linux & Windows Bare Metal Recovery Chapter Here
Solaris	Flash Recovery	Documented in Backup & Recovery book (Buy It)
HP-UX 10.x+	Make_recovery	Documented in Backup & Recovery book (Buy It)
MacOS X	Home-grown	Documented in Backup & Recovery book (Buy It)
Windows	Home-grown	Read Free Linux & Windows Bare Metal Recovery Chapter Here

Although they didn't make it into Backup & Recovery, this site also has archived versions of free bare metal recovery tools for IRIX and Tru64.

Of course, there are also commercial bare metal recovery tools

Vendor/Product	Supported OSs
Storix	AIX, Linux
Lone-Tar's Rescue Ranger	Linux, SCO
Symantec's Ghost	Windows, Linux
Yosemite Backup	Windows, Linux, Novell
Ultrabac	Windows
Symantec's BMR	Windows, Linux, Unix
Acronis	Windows, Linux
Paragon	Windows
Winternals	Windows