Still, take a look at the choices - if you don't have a cloning system with multiple ports like this desktop, you can still use Clonezilla. Here, we're cloning a disk directly to another disk (the fastest method). Choose your language on the next screen, tab to and hit Enter. Hit Enter here to take the default option. Using ClonezillaBoot Clonezilla from a CD (it's less than 300MB so it fits nicely on CD media, no need for DVD) or a USB stick (you can get instructions on how to make a bootable USB on the Clonezilla website). Here, I've connected the source drive to one SATA port, the destination drive to another and connected power to both drives. It has a power supply with plenty of leads, and a surfeit of SATA headers on the system board. I don't use it as a PC any more, but keep around for jobs like this. The Basic SetupThe setup I'm using here is a homebuilt desktop PC built from a barebone kit a couple of years ago. That's outside the scope of this tutorial, but you can read about it on Clonezilla's site.
It also has a full-featured enterprise imaging system designed to host multiple disk images on a centralized image store and allow large deployments using PXE boot. Disk to image file on a USB Hard Drive or other storage system.Disk to larger capacity disk, expanding partition size (great when you have a disk that's running out of space and just need a larger disk).Disk to same capacity or larger disk (the simplest scenario and what I'm doing here).
It can do disk-to-disk clones and disk-to-image clones for any of these scenarios: This fixed the problem very quickly, without having to re-install anything.In the tutorial below, I'll be cloning a 500GB notebook drive to a new SSD to make it run quicker, cooler and with less power usage.Clonezilla is also versatile. I was able to get a new hard drive, connect it and the original drive, and use Clonezilla to duplicate the drive before there were any unrecoverable errors. We're talking about basic bread and butter tech support.Just recently, I had a client with a Windows PC that had a popup error saying "Windows detected a hard disk problem" and offered to begin a backup. You can read about Making a Forensic Disk Image Using Guymager HERE, but today we're not talking about forensics. Use it for disk to disk clones, make an image of a disk on a hard drive for imaging other disks or save a complete snapshot of your file system.Clonezilla does not make a physical level forensic copy of a disk! For that, you need DD, other utility or my favorite, Guymager. It's a Linux live CD that's Free and Open Source software you can download quickly. You've seen commercial products like Acronis True Image and Norton Ghost for copying disks quickly and easily, but you may not have ever heard of the best software in the world to duplicate entire disks - even disks with multiple partitions - at a logical level: Clonezilla!Clonezilla is available at.
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