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schrodinger's cat
I am replacing the HD in my laptop, and I'd like to clone the entire old
drive over to the new one. My existing HD is dual boot, with partitions
for Windows XP Pro (FAT32), Kubuntu Linux (EXT2), Linux Swap, and Data
(FAT32).
I hope to use an external USB HD enclosure to copy the existing HD to
the new HD through the USB port. Naturally, I need to be able to copy
all the partitioning and file system formatting as well as the MBR and
data from the old drive, and have the new drive be bootable when it is
installed. I have looked at a number of ways to accomplish this, such as
xxCopy, xxClone, CloneMaxx, rescue disks such as BartPE and
SystemRescueCD, live Linux distros with Partimage or dd, etc, but I
thought I would check to see if anyone here has any freeware utility
recommendations based on doing something similar. Any solutions need to
at least be able to mount a USB HD on my native USB1.1 ports, or
preferably on a PC Card adapter with USB2.0 ports for faster throughput.
Thanks.
drive over to the new one. My existing HD is dual boot, with partitions
for Windows XP Pro (FAT32), Kubuntu Linux (EXT2), Linux Swap, and Data
(FAT32).
I hope to use an external USB HD enclosure to copy the existing HD to
the new HD through the USB port. Naturally, I need to be able to copy
all the partitioning and file system formatting as well as the MBR and
data from the old drive, and have the new drive be bootable when it is
installed. I have looked at a number of ways to accomplish this, such as
xxCopy, xxClone, CloneMaxx, rescue disks such as BartPE and
SystemRescueCD, live Linux distros with Partimage or dd, etc, but I
thought I would check to see if anyone here has any freeware utility
recommendations based on doing something similar. Any solutions need to
at least be able to mount a USB HD on my native USB1.1 ports, or
preferably on a PC Card adapter with USB2.0 ports for faster throughput.
Thanks.