Norton Ghost - Portable [portable]

It just waits for the next time you boot to DOS.

Ghost Portable has no telemetry, no cloud login, no "AI-enhanced backup," no subscription. It’s 500 KB of pure cloning. norton ghost portable

Before Windows 11 could reinstall itself from the cloud, and before Macrium Reflect and Acronis became household names among nerds, there was Ghost. And in its portable form, it became the ultimate digital crowbar: a tool so small, so ruthless, and so effective that it has outlived the company that made it, the floppy disks it ran from, and the very architecture it was designed to clone. It just waits for the next time you boot to DOS

Translation: Clone drive 1 to an image file on D:, compress it hard (Z3), don’t ask me for confirmation (-SURE), and reboot when done (-RB). Before Windows 11 could reinstall itself from the