Comments on: Clonezilla – Free Advanced Hard Drive Cloning Software

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:14:43 +0000

I recently switched over to Clonezilla from Ghost SS and DriveImageXML. Clonezilla is by far the easiest and fastest method to create an image and restore it to another computer. I recently reimaged 180 computers using it, and it saved me hours upon hours of work. The next step will be installing a PXE server so that I can remote boot into Clonezilla from the network.

By: Dominik

Dominik — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:15:13 +0000

I’ve been looking for hours for cloning software, I checked few mentioned above and this one so far is the best for me,
thanks for great advise.

By: Clint

Clint — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:39:53 +0000

You can’t go wrong with CloneZilla. We triple boot our Mac machines at work. A single program to create and restore… BRILLIANT! Compression is excellent for NTFS, HFS and EXT, and the ability to netboot and multicast… What more do I need to say. An absolute lifesaver.

By: Louie

Louie — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:13:23 +0000

I’ve read about these kinds of situations and everyone tries to help out as much as they can. But this article has the most detail and has definitely been the most help to me. Thank you.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:44:46 +0000

I haven’t tried using Clonezilla for hard drives that aren’t identical, but I don’t think it works even to a larger size. But with the ability to clone partitions instead of entire disks, you may have the option to just clone your operating system partition and another partition with your installed programs then save those instead of the entire disk. Then whatever space is remaining after the clone you may need to activate into yet another partition. Haven’t tried it, but this might get you going in the right direction. The screen where you choose something different than the instructions in this article is the “Clonezilla: Select Mode” dialog box. There is a snapshot of it in the article, and I think the option you would choose for your task would be “saveparts” for the imaging and “restoreparts” for the cloning.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:08:56 +0000

Here’s a question for those that have used Clonezilla.
I’m not particularly up to date on pc architectures and what’s possible hence my question.

I have a (bootable) PATA drive that I’d like to image and then restore against a SATA II drive, is this possible?

It would allow me to replace the PATA drive with a larger & faster SATA II drive in my main pc.

Thanks

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:24:21 +0000

Thanks for the info! It’s been bookmarked and will be put to use

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:23:06 +0000

You’re welcome!

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:21:05 +0000

Clonezilla is a great tool. Glad to see there are other fans in the MakeUseOf community!

By: darel

darel — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:11:35 +0000

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does bios backups too