Is it possible to make a disk-to-disk clone via USB?

I have an internal laptop HDD which I wish to copy to another SATA HDD.

There is no spare storage for storing an image, so I wish to make a direct disk-to-disk clone. I have connected the destination HDD via a USB-SATA powered adapter. CloneZilla does not seem to support this during disk-to-disk mode, as it's only looking at SATA connections and doesn't mount USB devices at that point.

Are there alternatives? Or is there another way to do it with CloneZilla?

user1179162

Posted 2013-01-04T11:14:05.320

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OT: Not programming related. – Turbo J – 2013-01-04T16:21:27.293

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It's possible using Clonezilla. The issue might be in how you load Clonezilla.

Try Parted Magic's version:

Download & burn the ISO
boot the CD
Connect the drive to the USB/SATA connector
THEN start the version of Clonezilla that is included with Parted Magic

Bon Gart

Posted 2013-01-04T11:14:05.320

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dd in Linux will do it; you just need to know what the device path is

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdx

... replacing x with the device letter in Linux. You can find this out by typing

sudo fdisk -l

Canadian Luke

Posted 2013-01-04T11:14:05.320

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