A clone is a replication, or an exact copy, of something.
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How to clone & restore virtual box hard drive
What I want to do is to clone my virtual box hdd with dual boot os. Xp and Vista.
I'm using acronis and back it up on a flash drive. And end up with the flash drive that is partitioned. 2 partitions ...
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Is there a way to do a sector level copy/clone from one hard drive to another?
Without going into distracting details, I'm attempting to duplicate the contents of the 500GB drive in my MacBook to another 500GB drive. But this is turning out to be an unexpected hassle because the ...
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Backing up to smaller drive
In a few hours I'll have a new 500GB Sony laptop, filled with the usual Sony rubbish which I'll promptly be replacing with Ubuntu or Crunchbang or something. However, first I want to make a full clone ...
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Tortoise HG “Out of Memory” While Trying to Clone Repo
While trying to clone a ~500 MB repository onto my local drive using mercurial, I repeatedly get the "Out of Memory" error. I have 2 GB of memory and I have never seen this. I installed the latest ...
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XXClone as a tool for migrating Windows XP Home from PATA to SATA HD
Has anybody had any experience using XXClone as a tool for cloning an existing installation of Windows in order to move it from an old PATA drive to a new, larger SATA without having to reinstall ...
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What software can copy the whole hard drive with Operating System to DVD-R, and be able to “refresh the machine” using the DVD-R?
What software can take a snapshot of a Win XP or Win 7 machine -- burning all files into a DVD-R, and then
be able to boot from that DVD-R
can restore the whole machine back to that state stored ...
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few questions on clone zilla
I'm trying to clone my windows xp installation.
If I back it up using clone zilla and the my xp machine is infected by virus/spyware would I also be bringing the whole mess when I try to back it up.
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installation and maintenance of an OS and applications over multiple PCs
Let's say I've got around 50 PCs with identical specs but no CD or floppy drives and a blank hard disk, is there an efficient way to install (and update) an OS and software on each of them? Would I ...
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C++ program to make linux Ubuntu clone windows partition?
I want to write code in Dev C++ so that when i execute in Ubuntu 8 , it clones my windows 7 from D: partition to its child partitions E:,F: ...
i have made my partitions of equal sizes and i have ...
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How to clone and deploy multiple machines?
See what I wanna do is basically make bootable clones or disc images or whatever(let's call it "stuff" for now ) and store many of them in a single big HDD. Then, I wanna use that big HDD and the ...
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Cloned screen on monitors with different resolutions
I want to set up a system with two displays connected. One display will be a 22inch monitor with a native resolution of 1920x1080. The other display is a 19inch display native resolution 1024x768.
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What is the best way to clone a dual booting windows & ubuntu system?
I have a dying hard drive and a replacement drive (same model). What is the best way to copy the old drive to the new drive?
Its a dual boot setup - Ubuntu Karmic and Windows XP.
I really don't ...
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Can I Use My Linux Box As A 'System Imaging' Server? (i.e., Norton Ghost Server?)
I'm curious if anyone has accomplished the following, or knows a good terse description of how to set up the following.
I'd like to set up a Linux server that is able to clone PC's over the network, ...
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What's better Ghost or Virtualization?
I've a test environment with several machines using a mix of OSs and MS softwares, several developers use the machines on site and remotely.
Recently I'd to downsize it to just one machine.
What ...
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Migrating TrueCrypt protected Windows XP installation to new hard disk
I have Windows XP Prof installed on a Truecrypt protected parition (using TrueCrypt boot authentication). This is the only partition on that drive.
I'm about to get a new harddrive and need to ...
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How to share a user ~/Library folder over two accounts?
I find it easier to focus on a project if I dedicate an entire user account to it. I fast-user-switch between work mode (documents and programs I'd rather not close) and entertainment mode (user ...
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3 partitions, cloning to larger disk; preserve GRUB?
I've got a 10 GB ext3 partition, a ~512 MB linux-swap partition, and a 45.4 GB NTFS partition. I have GRUB doing my bootloading.
I'm looking to clone it all to a new 160 GB hard drive I got today and ...
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Problem after cloning a System drive from my laptop
I just made a clone of my notebooks Harddrive using Norton Ghost 11 boot-CD.
The system is Windows XP on an IBM Thinkpad r60 (type 9461).
The cloning went ok.
Now with the new HDD in the machine I ...
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What is the best way to clone a linux partition onto a smaller partition?
I've currently got an 80GB RAID0 (yes, I know, that's why I'm changing it...) ext3 linux device that's about 80% free, and I want to change it to a 40GB ext4 partition using one of the previous RAID0 ...
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Possible to transfer a partition over to a smaller drive with clonzilla?
I've used clonezilla once in the past to make a backup of a drive. I never had to use the backup so this is my question.
I have a current Windows install on a 500gb drive that I would like to ...
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Cloning a Linux (Ubuntu) Boot Drive That Has A Few Errors
I've got an 8.04 Mythbuntu installation I need to clone to another disk. Unfortunately the disk it's on has a few errors, so dd aborts when I try the usual
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
Last night I ...
