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Originally Posted by ssshake
Hey all so FWIW I successfully cloned the drive. But I did not resize it.
This is what I did and it was very simple. I first started with clonezilla and that was a miserable failure. I then said screw it, I'm doing a bit by bit copy.
1) Installed the ubuntu live CD onto a thumb drive
2) Booted my computer into that
3) Connected the CIC HDD via an IDE to usb connector (cheap on amazon)
4) ran a DD command dd if=/dev/sdc of=idrive-backup.img bs=64k status=progress
5) Then used this image to restore it to the new drive with command dd if=idrive-backup.img of=/dev/sdc
/dev/sdc will change from system to system, the idiots way to get this info is to plug in the drive and then run gparted from the command line. This will open up a graphical partition editor where there is a drop down menu showing all the connected drives and their drive letter, sdc in my case.
By very careful not to mix up the if (input) and of(output) command or you will copy data in the wrong direction and blank out your drive.
I did this primarily to back up the drive since it's 10 years old and a spinning disk in a moving car.
I may try to resize the partition sometime.
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I was having fits getting Linux to install on my PCs, so I had time to mess with Windows cloning software...
Bottom line, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 17 Advanced was crap. Corrupted the image and left the Nav section greyed-out.
But, HDD Raw Copy Tool v1.1 (Free) worked like a champ! It was fast, simple and made a perfect copy of my CIC HDD in Win7 32-bit.
Here's the link:
https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/
Cheers & good luck!