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I am trying to clone hard drive on my laptop. Clonezilla does not work for me, I cannot boot from usb-drive and my cd-rom is acting weirdly (not Clonezilla's fault).
So I am thinking about booting Ubuntu from flash-usb and using 'Disks' program. It has graphical interface and allows creating images. (I am not too friendly with command line, so I like GUI).
Did anybody use it before, what are results, words of caution?
Regards,
user1700890
Posted 2016-01-30T15:10:17.187
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2http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19141/clone-a-hard-drive-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/ – None – 2016-01-30T15:29:37.750
You will find that the disc imaging in
disksis probably not what you want, as you will need a third disc for the image. You are better off withgparted(also on Ubuntu Live discs). This provides a GUI front-end to the programs in @hackwarewright's link: it's straightforward to use and provides quite a lot of checks against data loss. – AFH – 2016-01-30T16:11:55.790why can't you create a proper bootable drive with clonezilla? – jiggunjer – 2016-01-30T17:52:31.967
@jiggunjer here is my post on clonezilla forum – user1700890 – 2016-01-30T18:09:12.283
@AFH, so if I boot from UBS flash, I will not be able to make a copy (with 'Disks') of local C: drive to attached USB hard drive? – user1700890 – 2016-01-30T18:14:50.433
1You can create an image (if the drive is big enough to hold it), but you will then have to restore this to another drive - it will not be a bootable clone; in contrast
gpartedwill allow you to clone from drive to drive directly. – AFH – 2016-01-30T19:07:45.353