Tag: #DiskCloning

How to Clone a Disk Using Clonezilla

In this article, I will explain how to clone a disk using Clonezilla. If you would like to migrate HDD to SSD to get a super speed, you may need to use Clonezilla.

Clonezilla is an open-source hard disk cloning software. It is used to create exactly an exact copy of a bootable hard disk.

Using an HDD on your system may cause the machine to run slowly.

Clone a Disk Using Clonezilla

Boot your system from the Clonezilla bootable USB drive or CD/DVD.
After booting your system from the bootable USB drive, select Clonezilla lives and then hit Enter.

Select a language and then press Enter.

Leave the default keyboard layout, and click ok.

Click on start Clonezilla and click ok.

Select a clone mode to continue, clone HDD to SSD in Windows, select the option of device-device work directly from a disk or partition to a disk or partition and hit Enter.

Click on Beginner Beginner mode and hit enter.

To clone the entire hard disk to SSD, you need to select the option of disk_to_local_disk local_disk and then click ok.

Choose the local disk as the source (The source drive containing the data) you wish to clone to another drive and then press enter.

HDD is a source drive and SSD is a destination drive.
Choose the destination disk and then hit enter.

Default setting press enter.

Select the action to perform after the cloning is complete. Options are available including choose, reboot, or power off. (You can select any option).
Choose the action to perform when everything is completed (choose, reboot, or power off). Hit enter and then again press enter to continue.

Type Y and then hit enter to confirm the cloning process.
Type Y again to re-confirm and then hit enter to close the boot loader.

Now, Clonezilla starting cloning a hard drive to an SSD.

Press enter

After cloning, you may shut down the system.

Now remove your old hard drive and insert the SSD into the original location. Then, run your system from the SSD.

07/07/2022
How to Create Image Backup using Clonezilla

This article shows how to create image backup using Clonezilla. To create a backup image of a system drive as well as restoring from a backup image. Clonezilla is a free software for disk cloning and imaging. Here is all the steps you wish to know about how to use Clonezilla to clone a hard drive in the simplest way.

When you purchase a new system, you need to move your old data to your new system. You can use Clonezilla to clone the entire system drive to a new drive. Drive cloning using Clonezilla is simple, fast, and free of cost.

Create Image Backup using Clonezilla

Preparation

Download the Clonezilla ISO file from their official website.

Create Bootable USB or a CD/DVD media. The CD/DVD is used to boot the system to backup full disk data. Some systems come without a CD/DVD drive. In this case, the best way is you can use a USB flash drive to boot Clonezilla live.

Full Disk Backup using Clonezilla

Boot the computer with the Clonezilla live CD/DVD or USB.
Choose Clonezilla to live (Default setting and then hit enter.

Select the language then select ok.

Leave default settings.

Start Clonezilla window, press enter.

Select Device-image work directly from ….. and press ok.

Then choose Beginner mode.

Click on disk_to_local_disk ……….. and press enter.

Review the size of the disk. It would be the size of the disk to save the image. Press enter

Select your target disk, I select an external drive, and press enter.

Select Skip checking/repairing source file system and then hit enter.

Choose the action to perform when finish and then click ok to continue.

Review the summary (the disk size) and then type Y twice to continue. Wait the backup image procedure is completed.

Start creating disk image backup Clonezilla.

04/07/2022