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Posted Yesterday
Hello
anyone knows a good software for cloning disk drives, also how to do it
please
thanks
This question / problem has been solved by Dark_art_image
Posted Yesterday
You mean that you have an disc file like an ISO that you wish to mount and run? Then how about Virtual Clonedrive by Elaborate Bytes? I use this one because it just happens to be the first one I found, is free, works on Windows 7, and is simple to use. Your mileage may vary.
Post edited Yesterday by SultanOfSuave
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SultanOfSuave: You mean that you have an disc file like an ISO that you wish to mount and run? Then how about Virtual Clonedrive by Elaborate Bytes? I use this one because it just happens to be the first one I found, is free, works on Windows 7, and is simple to use. Your mileage may vary.
no no, I mean cloning from a HDD to another HDD

but thanks anyway
I appreciate it
Posted Yesterday
That depends how direct you want to be.
There's image cloning, shadow masking, direct data copy...but in any case, I can't imagine you want to be thrown into the deep end with something like dd, so...
Let's start at Clonezilla and work from there...

(By the way, it might help to know what OS you're on.)

Let's see, you've got RescueZilla, Redo Rescue, Win32 Disk Imager, and plenty of other choices.
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dnovraD: That depends how direct you want to be.
There's image cloning, shadow masking, direct data copy...but in any case, I can't imagine you want to be thrown into the deep end with something like dd, so...
Let's start at Clonezilla and work from there...

(By the way, it might help to know what OS you're on.)

Let's see, you've got RescueZilla, Redo Rescue, Win32 Disk Imager, and plenty of other choices.
I have windows 10
I want to clone a 1tb HDD to a 4tb HDD
Posted Yesterday
I've been using clonezilla for years: https://clonezilla.org

It supports going from a smaller one to a larger one (partition or whole drive, either internal or external). Just boot it up with a usb pen / usb drive (or via something like Ventoy/pxe), and just follow the wizard.
Post edited Yesterday by sanscript
Posted Yesterday
One more vote to Clonezilla, works flawlessly and is free.
It's command line but pretty easy to follow the steps, the only thing you need to pay attention is the drives are not named C: or D: like in Windows but SDA (1,2,3 for the partitions itself) or NVME0 since its Linux based.

Steps:
Download the Clonezilla ISO
Burn on a USB stick or any other storage media your computer can boot from, using Balena Etcher or Rufus
Boot from the USB using the keyboard key on your computer, something like F8 or F12. You can also enter BIOS/UEFI and choose from there.
Start Clonezilla
Choose your options but defaults worked dozen of times for me. Choose device-device copy and will clone the entire disk
Confirm the the correct drives.
Confirm again because if you enter the wrong drive as the target it will be erased and formatted (obviously).

As stated above by sanscript, clonezilla cannot clone a source drive to a smaller target drive, so it's very unlikely that you ended up with both blank drives.
Post edited Yesterday by Dark_art_
Posted Yesterday
thanks, I will use clonezilla, also what is Rufus?
Posted Yesterday
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csanjuro: thanks, I will use clonezilla, also what is Rufus?
Rufus is a simple tool to burn ISO on USB drives. I use it all the time to install windows or Linux. For windows it has some options to bypass Windows11 requirements, like TPM2.0.
It doesn't need to be installed.

https://rufus.ie


Edit: added info
You can use Rufus default options, but if your computer has a UEFI only/no compability boot, you need to choose GPT intead of MBR, otherwise just use the defaul options.

https://etcher.balena.io Works fine and has pretty much no options.
Post edited Yesterday by Dark_art_
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csanjuro: thanks, I will use clonezilla, also what is Rufus?
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Dark_art_: Rufus is a simple tool to burn ISO on USB drives. I use it all the time to install windows or Linux. For windows it has some options to bypass Windows11 requirements, like TPM2.0.
It doesn't need to be installed.

https://rufus.ie
thanks again
Posted Yesterday
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csanjuro: thanks, I will use clonezilla, also what is Rufus?
That is a program that writes bootable ISO files to USB sticks so you can boot from the stick. You can find it here.
Posted Yesterday
'scuse me for butting in, but recall seeing something about Clonezilla having issues when restoring an image saved on a HDD to a SSD?
And are there any issues if you want to clone a partition to another, not having a full drive as either source or destination?
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