wire Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 I'm looking to make a bootable copy of a hard disk. What should I use to copy everything to the new disk? dd? The new disk that I'll be copying to is larger. Will I be able to create a new partition with the leftover space? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Which OS are you most familiar with? I've not cloned a HDD in Linux yet but dd is what most people promote. I've had great success with Acronis in Windows. You can resize the partitions when you clone the disk as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wire Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 I'm more familiar with Windows, but was planning to use a usb live linux because I can't clone the disk I'm booting from, right? The problem is it's a laptop hard drive I'm looking to clone and I only have one usb to ide adapter (to plug in the second disk). EDIT: Also, the original disk is a bit flakey so the less fiddling with it the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 DD will work nicely, just output to a compressed file and then dd this file to a new drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wire Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 Why not write directly from one disk to the other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 For some reason I thought you were trying to clone the disk using a seperate machine, thus nessitating the need to image to a compressed file, swap the drive and image the file back to the 2nd disk. Disk-to-Disk would be a far better approach though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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