Clone a hard drive?

sdavmor sdavmor at systemstheory.net
Thu Jun 28 16:39:45 UTC 2007


David Vincent wrote:
> Dave M wrote:
>> What is the easiest way to clone a full (all partitions, boot tracks etc.) 
>> hard drive?
> 
> http://www.sysresccd.org/
> 
> That little sucker has saved me TONS of time.

Thanks for the HU! on this one.  Looks like a definite keeper.

> System tools included
> 
>      * GParted is a Partition Magic clone for Linux.
>      * GNU Parted is the best text tool for editing your disk partitions 
> under linux
>      * Partimage is a Ghost/Drive-image clone for Linux
>      * File systems tools (e2fsprogs, reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs, 
> xfsprogs, jfsutils, ntfsprogs, dosfstools): they allow you to format, 
> resize, and debug an existing partition of your hard disk
>      * Ntfs3g: allows you to mount your Windows partition and get a full 
> read/write unlimited access to the NTFS partition.
>      * Sfdisk allows you to backup and restore your partition table
>      * Test-disk tool to check and undelete partition, supports 
> reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext2/3 and many others
>      * Network tools (Samba, NFS, ping, nslookup, ...)
> 
> -d
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