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cloning drives

Are there any free tools to clone hard-drives? If so can you detail which?

They are drives with XP installed and NTFS etc.

What hardware is required for this process?

And what liscence implications such as the OS liscence?

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Dave Baldwin

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Pau Lo

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Can you talk through the rprocess and hardware requried to do the clone (in novice terminology?)

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rindi

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rindi

Sorry, there is a typo to the partedmagic link above:

http://partedmagic.com

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nobus

sorry rindi - missed your last sentence..

Pau Lo

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I guess my question - however basic - is where do you clone to?

FOr exampe I Have an internal drive that I want to "clone", how do I attach the second drive on which to write the clone onto?

rindi

With CloneZilla you can clone to a 2nd internal drive, or to a drive you attach via USB port via a USB docking system, or a 2nd drive attached to another PC that is accessible via the LAN. Important with XP is that once it is cloned, you will have to attach the disk internally to the PC for it to run. You won't be able to boot it directly from a USB port if you cloned it that way.