Alternatives to Disk2vhd
Sysinternals tool that turns a running Windows system into a VHD or VHDX disk image. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Disk2vhd
Sysinternals tool that turns a running Windows system into a VHD or VHDX disk image.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Disk2vhd.
Macrium Reflect
Windows disk imaging and recovery with rapid delta restore.
Macrium Reflect adds scheduled disk imaging with a rescue environment and Rapid Delta restore, but it is a paid product and does not produce bootable VHD files for hypervisors.
Veeam Agent
Image-based backup agent for Windows and Linux endpoints, free for individual machines.
Veeam Agent adds image-level backup with bare-metal recovery on Windows and Linux, free for a single machine, while multi-machine management needs a paid edition.
Hasleo Backup Suite
Free Windows backup for system images, disks, partitions and files.
Hasleo Backup Suite provides system imaging, cloning and bootable recovery media in a free edition that is actively maintained, though commercial use requires a paid licence.
AOMEI Backupper
Windows backup and cloning tool with scheduled system and file jobs.
AOMEI Backupper adds scheduled system and disk images with a bootable rescue disc, but dissimilar-hardware restore and real-time sync require a paid edition.
EaseUS Todo Backup
Windows backup software for system, disk and file backups on a schedule.
EaseUS Todo Backup brings scheduled incremental system and disk backups with emergency boot media, while system clone and some destinations are paid features.
R-Drive Image
Windows disk imaging utility that creates byte-by-byte image files of drives and partitions for backup.
R-Drive Image creates byte-by-byte images of disks and partitions without stopping Windows, as paid software with compression options.
Active@ Disk Image
Windows disk imaging software that makes exact copies of disks for backup, upgrades and duplication.
Active@ Disk Image adds incremental images and mounting images as virtual drives on Windows, with a free Lite edition.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Clonezilla
A bootable disk cloner that images a whole drive or partition, including systems it cannot understand.
Rescuezilla
A bootable disk imaging and cloning tool that is Clonezilla with a graphical interface people can actually use.
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition
A free edition of Veeam Backup & Replication for backing up virtual machines and physical servers.
Windows File History
Built-in Windows tool that versions files to an external or network drive.
O&O DiskImage
A Windows backup program that makes complete system images and file backups and restores them after failures.
Win32 Disk Imager
A Windows tool for writing raw disk images to USB drives and SD cards, or backing them up.
