I followed your video tutorial to the "T" and I was able to clone my 250 Gig failing drive to a new 500 Gig one...you're a life saver!! Thank you so much!!
Hi, I'm have a possible internship with a networking company and they gave me a list of things to learn and clonezilla is one of the things, hence why I found your video. I must say you did a great job with this and i enjoyed watching you. Thank you for the help in understanding clonezilla.
You are most welcome. I am glad to know I could help you. Thank you for watching, commenting and the kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
I watches so many clonezilla videos and the mass majority are a big waste of time. They don't tell you the commands they are typing in and the terminal is so small you can't read the text. Those guys are idiots. Finally I found a tutorial that was created in a legible and understandable way... Thanks
You're most welcome. I'm glad and very happy to know that I could help you. Thank you so much for watching, commenting and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. Subscribe, Click The Bell and stay tuned! All the best.👍😀
Ich danke Ihnen. Mator sakalangkong Kak Tuwan. Berfungsi dengan baik. Terimakasih. Saya cloning system dari dual boot linux dan windows di laptop lama (pembelian 12 tahun yang lalu). Berhasil sukses. Sekali lagi Terima Kasih. Salam dari Malang - East Java Indonesia. Malar mogeh panjenengan eparengeh sehat bahagia.
Translation: Works fine. Thanks. I cloned the system from dual boot linux and windows on an old laptop (purchased 12 years ago). Successfully successful. Once again, thank you. Greetings from Malang - East Java Indonesia. Malar mogeh panjenengan eparengeh healthy and happy. You're most welcome. Glad to hear about your positive results. Comments like this make my DAY! 😁️ I'm glad to know I could help you and that you got value from my work here. Thank you for watching, commenting and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best from Great State of Texas.👍😀 Translated to Indonesian: Anda dipersilahkan. Senang mendengar tentang hasil positif Anda. Komentar seperti ini membuat HARI saya! 😁️ Saya senang mengetahui bahwa saya dapat membantu Anda dan Anda mendapatkan nilai dari pekerjaan saya di sini. Terima kasih telah menonton, berkomentar, dan kata-kata yang sangat baik. Saya sangat menghargainya. Semua yang terbaik dari Great State of Texas.👍😀
You're most welcome. I'm glad and very happy to know that I could help you. Thank you so much for watching, commenting and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
You're most welcome. Comments like this make my DAY! 😁️ I'm glad to know I could help you and that you got value from my work here. Thank you for watching, commenting and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
great video! I used this to clone a 50Gb Windows 7 Pro for an enterprise platform. Thank you this is going to save me so much time at work. I copied the bootable .iso to an external hard drive that I'm going to use to deploy until I figure out how to do the network deploy.
+Fernando Villalpando Very cool. Glad I could help. I do have a video showing how to do network cloning with this too. th-cam.com/video/yOVlpe5lEbo/w-d-xo.html Thanks
When I tried but face difficulties along the way, example it did not work like cloning OS from computer X (where OS is) to drive Y and then swap the drive Y for X in the computer. It is more like X to Y then Y to Z (as new SDD of drive C of the computer), is it correct process?
First thing to know here that the drive you are copying MUST be the same size or larger than the one you are copying. Try copying drive to drive and drive to image. Thank you so much for commenting and watching. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
Thank you for the video! I am having trouble with booting in asus Could you please tell how to go the selection of boot from usb stick since by pressing f2 it shows bios boot menu but I can't find how to choose yummi from boot
can i do this for primary partition(os drive)??? i had some softwere installed which took 3 days. now i want same on other pc. can i do this with each and everything installed on another pc?????
Richard Lloyd pls tell me on the 13th minute you chose the device-device, and there was a device-image. If you select an device-image, then how can this image be used? What program to unpack and install on a new hard drive? Will the copied system be bootable?
say ive only used 100gb or so on a 1tb hdd can i clone that drive to a 240gb ssd? ive tried with software in windows and that software wouldnt allow it. doing some work on my moms computer as the hdd is older and starting to get noisy. id like to be able to save all the contents of the drive before it fails without having to do a reinstall of the o/s and all the software and seperate backup of files.
Hi Richard. I'm trying to clone a drive to an image file and I was expecting to get a single file with the .iso extension. But instead I got a folder with a bunch of other files and folders in it. So now if I use clonezilla and point to that directory as the "image" directory will it rebuild my disk as a bootable disk? I have a preference for a single .iso file as I'm going to be sharing on a directory for distribution to other colleagues and I don't want anybody to mess around with the files in the directory that it gave me.
it would be good to know how to expand the partition on the target drive. My original small source drive was out of space, hence the clone to a new bigger drive. But not much info on how to expand the partition... lots of talk about it being easy to do, but not much luck for me. Does the -k1 command in clonezilla do this with a larger target drive?
So I have a parted magic boot USB. I want to simply copy my storage SSD (non os drive), over to a larger one since I ran out of space. Is it as simple as copying and pasting with gparted? Could I just do the same in Windows? It's about 500gb from one drive over to a 1tb drive. Do I need to clone for a non OS drive situation?
If the drive is just full of files and all you want to do is copy them, then just format the NEW drive plug it into the computer with the SSD and dump the SSD over to the new drive in windows. Copy paste will do it. Thank you for watching and commenting. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
I'm attempting to copy a laptop image to a bootable USB stick. So would I have to follow this process and install Clonezilla and YUMI on a USB drive while on the laptop itself? That's where I got a little lost.
Yumi installs the Clonezilla software to the USB stick and makes it bootable. The video explains how to do this and then use the stick to clone or image what you require. You first create the stick on any machine that can handle the task after which you use the stick to boot the machine you want to use to create an image or clone. Thanks.
Ah okay thanks Richard. This is an informative helpful video. In my case once I followed the first steps to create the bootable USB Stick with Clonezilla I can then select the first option that states create a device image to store a copy of the laptop image on the USB stick. It's at the 13:05 time mark.
It all seems very complicated to me, I have Windows 10 and Linux Mint 17.3 on a 500g HDD on separate partitions, could I copy both operating systems and the data and boot sequence directly to a new 2tb HDD ?
I tried to do disk-to-disk clone expert mode because I wanted to use all available space on a 1TB SSHD. The source disk 500GB HHD. The clone work well, but windows 10 was not able to boot from the new SSHD. Automatic repair was not successful. Nothing worked until I put back the old 500GB in the machine. It's an Intel i3 64bit Windows 10 Machine. Any idea why it won't boot from the new SSHD? Btw the old HHD has two partitions.
Hi Richard, thank you very much for this tutorial. We follow the instructions and cloned a 320GB drive to a 500GB. Everything seems to work but there is one weird thing. The 500 disk now appears as 320, it's like 200GB just dissapeared. What could be the problem?
Thanks for the tutorial. Just have a question. I have just had my system crash the other day that was running Lubuntu and have just got it all set back up the way i want it, I am using it as a media center. It has a 500gb hdd and the system only takes up about 20gb of space. When cloning the system will it only clone the 20gb? I have been looking at what i can do and keep reading comments from other backup software that the device i am cloning to has to be larger than the internal hdd. I am hoping to clone it to a 32gb usb stick so if it crashed again it would be relatively quick and easy to get back up and running again.
Everything worked fine, until I restarted the computer the drive that I cloned does not show up on my File Explorer screen, its like its not there please advise.
Richard When it comes to using a disk imaging/cloning software program it’s important that the directions I get are extremely clear. Yours define the standard.However I encountered a problem. I’m sure it was my fault. Fortunately it didn’t cause anything tragic to happen. But I don’t understand why I had the problem and what I can do to resolve it.I used your TH-cam to use Clonezilla and Yumi to format a thumb drive (E) and disk image my C drive (781 GB free of 931 GB) onto the (118 GB free of 119 GB) MULTIBOOT (E) thumb. Everything went fine until I got to time 1659/2030, right after “Do you want to clone the boot loader?” Where the window came up against the blue background and you announced that the process was “…starting to do its job…right now it’s syncing…” up to time 1740 where it announced it had successfully cloned the device…In my situation the 1659 - 1740 segment flashed by and I was immediately presented with the “poweroff, reboot, rerun…” window…Obviously, nothing had been cloned. (I’d expected the program would have been chugging away for a while and the drive would be cloned…)What did I do wrong? What happened? How can I successfully clone/image the C drive?thanks
I don't think you have enough space on the destination drive. Your source has 781GB of 931GB free (150GB of data) and you are trying to fit that on a 118GB drive. I don't think it's enough space. Thanks.
Not sure what the compression ratios are but it does have many options for compression in the advanced mode. Here is some documentation on that: clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/advanced/09-advanced-param.php
This seems to be working well. My ultimate goal was to clone my VERY old Linux box and restore it onto new hardware that I've ordered. I created the USB boot drive per your instructions and cloned the Linux box to an external Maxtor USB drive. When the new hardware arrives, do I just boot it from the YUMI/Clonezilla USB drive, run Clonezilla, and then restore the clone to the new hardware, or are there other steps to take. I'm still looking around to find the answer. Thanks, in advance, and you're tutorial was very helpful.
+Richard Lloyd I followed your procedure to the letter, Richard. I'll need to do it again, anyway, so should I choose to create an image file rather than the disk-to-disk method?? Thanks!
Hi, my labtop has some bad sectors on the hard drive. If I clone it, will it copy the bad sectors? I already did a chkdsk on the drive. Or what will you say is the best approach of getting my computer back and running?
I have bought a laptop which has windows 7 installed on it & also a Mac OS on the same HDD so I can choose which OS to boot when I start it up. The 5400rpm 500gb HDD is not big enough as I'm running out of space, & I would like to upgrade to a 960gb SSD which would be much faster too. I bought a corsair cloning kit thinking it would do the trick but when I swapped the drives after cloning & tried to boot up windows I got a message saying the drive was not accessible & it was asking for a repair/instalation disk & when I tried to boot up the Mac OS it just gave me a black screen. Will this free software do both the windows & Mac bootloaders?
+Galv140577 I don't use Mac OS but I do use a Linux dual boot with Windows 10 and it works on that. I can't guarantee success but you have nothing to lose by trying. Please report back to us and tell us how it went. Thanks.
Richard Lloyd just built a new pc. I wanted to install windows on 2 samsung 950 pro SSDs in RAID 0 connected to M.2 ports but they werent detected in the bios or windows installation however when it came to setting boot priority they appeared in the list in the bios but that was all. so instead I used an OCZ trion 100 SSD which was detected in windows installation & in the bios & I gave it boot priority 1, installed windows on it & then used windows to install NVMe drivers that made the samsung 950 pro SSDs detectable so I could set them up in a raid 0 in windows as drive D but I still wanted to migrate the OS onto the 950 pros so I ran clonzilla on the USB drive created with YUMI & cloned the OCZ trion onto the 950 pro on the M.2 Ultra port. Clonzilla only detected the hardware not the windows-configured RAID 0 drive so I had to make do with one 950 pro as the C drive & the other as a back up more like a RAID 1 type configuration which is fine for me because they are lightening fast on their own anyway especially on the M.2 ultra port which is up to 32Gb/s. I disconnected the OCZ trion & booted up to see what would happen. It worked. I now have windows installed on a 950 pro connected to the m.2 ultra port & the other 950 pro on the plain m.2 port (up to 5Gb/s) as a back up. This would not have been possible any other way. The drivers to make the drive work are now on the drive itself which is mind-boggling to me. I will be attempting to clone my laptop 512Gb HDD with the dual OS onto a sandisk extreme pro 960Gb SSD soon I'll report back when I've done it.
+Richard Lloyd OK I've done it I now have the SanDisk Extreme Pro 960Gb SSD is in my laptop & it's fast. I now have plenty of extra storage space too on both the windows OS & the mac OS they have been cloned with everything I had installed on them too. & if anything goes wrong I still have the old HDD as a back up. This is awesome dude thank you so much for uploading this video!!
Hello good, I have a query two days ago I cloned a hard disk as follows: 1. First create the 500GB disk image on a usb disk. 2. Second Mount the Image to a solid state disk of 1000GB, and it works wonderfully. Well the computer started normal and faster, but when I verify that space had I found that I'm not detecting the 1000Gb solid state disk, so if you had an experience of these I ask you help me by telling me how I can do The computer shows the disk space.
Here is a tool that will help you see and adjust your partition size make sure you keep the 500GB disk image as a backup prior to trying it: th-cam.com/video/0czAJwEbtFs/w-d-xo.html Thanks
If you are dealing with a machine that has uefi and a 64bit instruction set then that is the correct image to use. It will not work if you do not have 64bit machine. Thanks.
+Nirag Madaliya Choose the same option I choose at the 11:17 in the video after it boots completely the boot drive is no longer being used and can be copied from there. Thanks.
Thank you very much for the video! I want to do a clone of my current hard drive to an old one I have that is smaller as an emergency backup. 1TB to a 500GB. Less than 500GB is used on the 1TB source drive. Will it let me do this?
thank you everything worked, but one thing was odd which i saw after the cloning. The HDD that the data was copied to was formatted the same way as the original HDD. That means it suddenly was about 250gb smaller than before. The Problem is already fixed at the time of writing.
Beware of this method!! I tried it and I couldn't boot into any of the SDDs (source or target). Other tutorial mentioned that with this process you cant' have both disks working in the same machine after the cloning, Clonezilla changes something with the UUID of the disks. I ended up formatting and making a normal installation in the target disks (it takes longer than usual), after a couple of boots the source got functional and the target stops booting, so I repeat the process once again.
I did not experience the same thing as you. Thank you so much for watching, commenting, the valuable feedback and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
I don't know if this is a problem, but my MULTIBOOT drive ,(D:) in my case, only has the "multiboot:" file no ".disk" file like yours is this bad? Or will it still work?
can I install the clonezilla on a hdd that is in my computer (not source and not destination drive) and if I can, do I have to remove all the data off that drive first?
Hi, when i am loading the image onto a new machine I get the rror message the Destination Disk is too small. The PC image i am copying has a 250gb as does the destination PC. My external hardrive however has 1tb. how can i resolve this?
Are you sure that you are trying to copy the correct drive on to right drive? If you are trying to copy the 1TB drive to the 250GB it will give you that error. Also make sure the the 1TB drive is properly formatted. Thanks.
So...... I want to take one machine install windows install 40 programs then copy the drive and install on many machines. would they all have same programs and everything trying to speed up PC distribution at work otherwise I need to install all 40 programs on every desktop thank you nice video
Is it possible to clone installed window and install it later when u need it , without adding product key during installation ,if it is possible then let me know how. Thanks
Clonezilla has a huge document database on all these subjects. You can start here drbl.org/faq/ and here clonezilla.org/clonezilla-usage/clonezilla-live-videos.php Thanks.
It can copy all those file systems. I have copied dual boot Windows and Linux drives without issues. I can't guarantee it but I can say most likely it will. Thanks.
There are many boot modes available, you can see that at the 10:10 point in the video. Try the various options you find there and see what happens. Thanks.
Which version of Clonezilla are you using? There are three versions. Try using the I686 version if you are not using it or if you are try using the amd64 instead. Thanks.
I have a problem that you may just have solved Richard. See, my ex-office people lost a motherboard that had dac-easy with some 2nd quarter files they needed. I plan to get a cable for the old ide to usb and clone the drive so it can be booted with the original xp software. Think I can do that with your "fix" ? I hope so.
+Izzaldin Samir If you are only going to use it on this computer I would recommend the 64 bit version but if you are going to use it on multiple computers then the 32 bit version as it will work on both 64bit computers and 32 bit computers. Thanks.
Yes I did this two days ago to upgrade from a 1TB drive to a 2TB drive in my laptop. Note that it will most likely use the same partition size on the clone as on the original but you can use the Gparted tool to grow the partitions appropriately. Here is a link to my video on that tool: th-cam.com/video/0czAJwEbtFs/w-d-xo.html Thanks.
Khyree Holmes Correct again. I use to back up my dual boot system with a Windows 7 NTFS partition and a Linux (Ubuntu) EXT3 partition. Works like a charm. Thanks again.
Well done Sir. My Acronis decided to not work anymore and I had to find an alternative method...This was a comprehensive tutorial. Thank you
I followed your video tutorial to the "T" and I was able to clone my 250 Gig failing drive to a new 500 Gig one...you're a life saver!! Thank you so much!!
+M Viera You are welcome. I used this program all the time with great success too. Thanks for watching.
Will the new 500GB drive come up as a 500GB or will it be an exact clone of the 250GB? If so, do you have to expand the partition?
Hi, I'm have a possible internship with a networking company and they gave me a list of things to learn and clonezilla is one of the things, hence why I found your video. I must say you did a great job with this and i enjoyed watching you. Thank you for the help in understanding clonezilla.
You are most welcome. I am happy to hear I helped you learn. Thanks for watching and the very kind comments. I appreciate it.
An informative tutorial . The boot loader cloning feature is simply an icing on the cake!
You are most welcome. I am glad to know I could help you. Thank you for watching, commenting and the kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
I watches so many clonezilla videos and the mass majority are a big waste of time. They don't tell you the commands they are typing in and the terminal is so small you can't read the text. Those guys are idiots. Finally I found a tutorial that was created in a legible and understandable way... Thanks
I like older people explanation, kids move so fast i miss most of it. Good View, Thanks
You're most welcome. I'm glad and very happy to know that I could help you. Thank you so much for watching, commenting and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. Subscribe, Click The Bell and stay tuned! All the best.👍😀
Thank you very much Richard.A very clear and simple instruction video for cloning and imagning hard drives. Much appreciated.Nick
+skycool miles You are most welcome. Thanks for watching and the kind comments.
Ich danke Ihnen. Mator sakalangkong Kak Tuwan. Berfungsi dengan baik. Terimakasih. Saya cloning system dari dual boot linux dan windows di laptop lama (pembelian 12 tahun yang lalu). Berhasil sukses. Sekali lagi Terima Kasih. Salam dari Malang - East Java Indonesia. Malar mogeh panjenengan eparengeh sehat bahagia.
Translation: Works fine. Thanks. I cloned the system from dual boot linux and windows on an old laptop (purchased 12 years ago). Successfully successful. Once again, thank you. Greetings from Malang - East Java Indonesia. Malar mogeh panjenengan eparengeh healthy and happy.
You're most welcome. Glad to hear about your positive results. Comments like this make my DAY! 😁️ I'm glad to know I could help you and that you got value from my work here. Thank you for watching, commenting and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best from Great State of Texas.👍😀
Translated to Indonesian:
Anda dipersilahkan. Senang mendengar tentang hasil positif Anda. Komentar seperti ini membuat HARI saya! 😁️ Saya senang mengetahui bahwa saya dapat membantu Anda dan Anda mendapatkan nilai dari pekerjaan saya di sini. Terima kasih telah menonton, berkomentar, dan kata-kata yang sangat baik. Saya sangat menghargainya. Semua yang terbaik dari Great State of Texas.👍😀
This was much more insightful than I had anticipated. Thanks!
Very clean and comprehensible. Now I will try to do it.
Thank you so much for watching, commenting, the valuable feedback and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
Thanks a lot! Great tutorial, managed to clone my hdd to ssd all by myself :)
You're most welcome. I'm glad and very happy to know that I could help you. Thank you so much for watching, commenting and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
Thanks for the very easy to follow tutorial! Now I am off to do some cloning!!
Thank you for watching, commenting and the kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
Thanks, Richard!
You're most welcome. Comments like this make my DAY! 😁️ I'm glad to know I could help you and that you got value from my work here. Thank you for watching, commenting and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
Best guide still works march 2019
You are most welcome. Thank you for watching, commenting and the kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
This has been very helpfull because I've had varying degrees of success cloning and getting good booting media. Clonzila should fix all.
great video! I used this to clone a 50Gb Windows 7 Pro for an enterprise platform. Thank you this is going to save me so much time at work. I copied the bootable .iso to an external hard drive that I'm going to use to deploy until I figure out how to do the network deploy.
+Fernando Villalpando Very cool. Glad I could help. I do have a video showing how to do network cloning with this too. th-cam.com/video/yOVlpe5lEbo/w-d-xo.html Thanks
Hi Richard and thanks for your tutorial which is very well explained and useful .I fully appreciate your time on it
You are most welcome. I thank you for watching and the very kind comments. All the best.
Awesome video, Richard. I just cloned my MX Linux with a customized UI - ready for distribution.
Nice instructional video. What is with the not so free "free" download?
I'm not sure what you mean. Thank you so much for commenting, watching and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
In 2019 still very useful, thanks! Very descriptive and well explained
2020 and still useful
Thank you very much Richard.A very clear and simple instruction video for cloning and imagning hard drives
Thanks a lot of the clonezilla tutoral clearly to let me know how to work on it ^^
You are most welcome. Thank you for watching, commenting and the kind words. All the best.
When I tried but face difficulties along the way, example it did not work like cloning OS from computer X (where OS is) to drive Y and then swap the drive Y for X in the computer. It is more like X to Y then Y to Z (as new SDD of drive C of the computer), is it correct process?
First thing to know here that the drive you are copying MUST be the same size or larger than the one you are copying. Try copying drive to drive and drive to image. Thank you so much for commenting and watching. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
Thank you for this video, it's very helpful!
Thank you so much for commenting, watching and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
like this video. clear and concise. difficult to get wrong.
Thank you very much.
Good video...Just one question arent you supposed to sysprep the computer if you clone it for means of installing the image to other computers?
Hi Richard, I followed these instructions to upgrade to a larger HDD and everything looks good but after 10~40 minutes my computer crashes. Any ideas?
Thank you for the video!
I am having trouble with booting in asus
Could you please tell how to go the selection of boot from usb stick since by pressing f2 it shows bios boot menu but I can't find how to choose yummi from boot
Thank you very much for this no nonsense and very helpfull tutorial. Even a Dutchie could understand it all :)
You are most welcome. Thanks for watching and the kind comments. All the best.
Very detail and good step by step instructions. Thank you very much!!!
You are most welcome. Thank you for watching and the kind comments. All the best.
can i do this for primary partition(os drive)???
i had some softwere installed which took 3 days. now i want same on other pc. can i do this with each and everything installed on another pc?????
Richard Lloyd pls tell me on the 13th minute you chose the device-device, and there was a device-image. If you select an device-image, then how can this image be used? What program to unpack and install on a new hard drive? Will the copied system be bootable?
Yes, it should work that way. Thank you for watching and commenting. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.
say ive only used 100gb or so on a 1tb hdd can i clone that drive to a 240gb ssd? ive tried with software in windows and that software wouldnt allow it. doing some work on my moms computer as the hdd is older and starting to get noisy. id like to be able to save all the contents of the drive before it fails without having to do a reinstall of the o/s and all the software and seperate backup of files.
@richard Lloyd - Any thoughts on this? I am struggling with the same issue
Hi Richard. I'm trying to clone a drive to an image file and I was expecting to get a single file with the .iso extension. But instead I got a folder with a bunch of other files and folders in it. So now if I use clonezilla and point to that directory as the "image" directory will it rebuild my disk as a bootable disk? I have a preference for a single .iso file as I'm going to be sharing on a directory for distribution to other colleagues and I don't want anybody to mess around with the files in the directory that it gave me.
Is there a way to create and save image, such that all data on a partition, where image will be created=saved, will not be lost?
THANKS-- MUCH appreciated--- and NEEDED..
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When restart my computer and boot using the usb it takes my to windows OS recovery not Yumi. Any idea what's going wrong?
it would be good to know how to expand the partition on the target drive. My original small source drive was out of space, hence the clone to a new bigger drive. But not much info on how to expand the partition... lots of talk about it being easy to do, but not much luck for me. Does the -k1 command in clonezilla do this with a larger target drive?
Here is a tool to do just that; th-cam.com/video/0czAJwEbtFs/w-d-xo.html Thanks
So I have a parted magic boot USB. I want to simply copy my storage SSD (non os drive), over to a larger one since I ran out of space. Is it as simple as copying and pasting with gparted? Could I just do the same in Windows? It's about 500gb from one drive over to a 1tb drive. Do I need to clone for a non OS drive situation?
If the drive is just full of files and all you want to do is copy them, then just format the NEW drive plug it into the computer with the SSD and dump the SSD over to the new drive in windows. Copy paste will do it. Thank you for watching and commenting. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
if i do one hd to another will it boot up and look exactly like the hd i copied from?
I'm attempting to copy a laptop image to a bootable USB stick. So would I have to follow this process and install Clonezilla and YUMI on a USB drive while on the laptop itself? That's where I got a little lost.
Yumi installs the Clonezilla software to the USB stick and makes it bootable. The video explains how to do this and then use the stick to clone or image what you require. You first create the stick on any machine that can handle the task after which you use the stick to boot the machine you want to use to create an image or clone. Thanks.
Ah okay thanks Richard. This is an informative helpful video. In my case once I followed the first steps to create the bootable USB Stick with Clonezilla I can then select the first option that states create a device image to store a copy of the laptop image on the USB stick. It's at the 13:05 time mark.
I doubt that you would have enough space on the USB stick fit an entire laptop image on it most laptops have 200GB or larger drives. Thanks.
It all seems very complicated to me, I have Windows 10 and Linux Mint 17.3 on a 500g HDD on separate partitions, could I copy both operating systems and the data and boot sequence directly to a new 2tb HDD ?
I tried to do disk-to-disk clone expert mode because I wanted to use all available space on a 1TB SSHD. The source disk 500GB HHD. The clone work well, but windows 10 was not able to boot from the new SSHD. Automatic repair was not successful. Nothing worked until I put back the old 500GB in the machine. It's an Intel i3 64bit Windows 10 Machine.
Any idea why it won't boot from the new SSHD?
Btw the old HHD has two partitions.
i want to use for ubuntu i should choose ubuntu based
Hi Richard, thank you very much for this tutorial. We follow the instructions and cloned a 320GB drive to a 500GB. Everything seems to work but there is one weird thing. The 500 disk now appears as 320, it's like 200GB just dissapeared. What could be the problem?
Clonezilla copies the drive exactly. Try this tool to resize it th-cam.com/video/0czAJwEbtFs/w-d-xo.html Thanks.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Just have a question. I have just had my system crash the other day that was running Lubuntu and have just got it all set back up the way i want it, I am using it as a media center. It has a 500gb hdd and the system only takes up about 20gb of space.
When cloning the system will it only clone the 20gb?
I have been looking at what i can do and keep reading comments from other backup software that the device i am cloning to has to be larger than the internal hdd. I am hoping to clone it to a 32gb usb stick so if it crashed again it would be relatively quick and easy to get back up and running again.
Everything worked fine, until I restarted the computer the drive that I cloned does not show up on my File Explorer screen, its like its not there please advise.
Have you tried the drive on another system? Thanks.
This is a really well made guide, thank you very much!
You are most welcome. Thank you for watching, commenting and the kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.
Thanks for the very useful step by step info.
You are most welcome. Thank you for commenting and the kind words. All the best.
Richard
When it comes to using a disk imaging/cloning software program it’s important that the directions I get are extremely clear. Yours define the standard.However I encountered a problem. I’m sure it was my fault. Fortunately it didn’t cause anything tragic to happen. But I don’t understand why I had the problem and what I can do to resolve it.I used your TH-cam to use Clonezilla and Yumi to format a thumb drive (E) and disk image my C drive (781 GB free of 931 GB) onto the (118 GB free of 119 GB) MULTIBOOT (E) thumb. Everything went fine until I got to time 1659/2030, right after “Do you want to clone the boot loader?” Where the window came up against the blue background and you announced that the process was “…starting to do its job…right now it’s syncing…” up to time 1740 where it announced it had successfully cloned the device…In my situation the 1659 - 1740 segment flashed by and I was immediately presented with the “poweroff, reboot, rerun…” window…Obviously, nothing had been cloned. (I’d expected the program would have been chugging away for a while and the drive would be cloned…)What did I do wrong? What happened? How can I successfully clone/image the C drive?thanks
I don't think you have enough space on the destination drive. Your source has 781GB of 931GB free (150GB of data) and you are trying to fit that on a 118GB drive. I don't think it's enough space. Thanks.
Do you know if Clonezilla (or any disk imager/cloner) employs compression, and if so, what the compression ratio might be?
Not sure what the compression ratios are but it does have many options for compression in the advanced mode. Here is some documentation on that: clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/advanced/09-advanced-param.php
Hey I followed you until 12:12 and then I got an error kernel panic attempted to kill unit" whatthe hell happened?
Can i clone my windows from hdd to ssd with clonezilla? And how 🤔
This seems to be working well. My ultimate goal was to clone my VERY old Linux box and restore it onto new hardware that I've ordered. I created the USB boot drive per your instructions and cloned the Linux box to an external Maxtor USB drive. When the new hardware arrives, do I just boot it from the YUMI/Clonezilla USB drive, run Clonezilla, and then restore the clone to the new hardware, or are there other steps to take. I'm still looking around to find the answer. Thanks, in advance, and you're tutorial was very helpful.
+Brittany Marie (Yourpalfranc) Did you create an image on your external drive? Thanks.
+Richard Lloyd I followed your procedure to the letter, Richard. I'll need to do it again, anyway, so should I choose to create an image file rather than the disk-to-disk method?? Thanks!
+Brittany Marie (Yourpalfranc) No it should be fine either way it will copy it. Try it and see what happens. Thanks.
+Richard Lloyd I'm still waiting on the h/w to arrive to try my clone, but I wanted to also say thanks for the heads-up on YUMI. That's a handy tool!!
+Brittany Marie (Yourpalfranc) You are welcome. I use Yumi almost every time I am creating a boot USB drive. Thanks for watching.
Thanx. Nice and clear explanations in this video. Great Job.
You are most welcome. Thank you very much for watching and the kind words. All the best.
Richard! You're a good man. +1 on the tutorial.
Hi, my labtop has some bad sectors on the hard drive. If I clone it, will it copy the bad sectors? I already did a chkdsk on the drive. Or what will you say is the best approach of getting my computer back and running?
You can do a copy of your old drive using the advanced options one of which will ignore the bad sectors and copy everything but. Thanks.
I have bought a laptop which has windows 7 installed on it & also a Mac OS on the same HDD so I can choose which OS to boot when I start it up. The 5400rpm 500gb HDD is not big enough as I'm running out of space, & I would like to upgrade to a 960gb SSD which would be much faster too. I bought a corsair cloning kit thinking it would do the trick but when I swapped the drives after cloning & tried to boot up windows I got a message saying the drive was not accessible & it was asking for a repair/instalation disk & when I tried to boot up the Mac OS it just gave me a black screen. Will this free software do both the windows & Mac bootloaders?
+Galv140577 I don't use Mac OS but I do use a Linux dual boot with Windows 10 and it works on that. I can't guarantee success but you have nothing to lose by trying. Please report back to us and tell us how it went. Thanks.
Richard Lloyd
just built a new pc. I wanted to install windows on 2 samsung 950 pro SSDs in RAID 0 connected to M.2 ports but they werent detected in the bios or windows installation however when it came to setting boot priority they appeared in the list in the bios but that was all. so instead I used an OCZ trion 100 SSD which was detected in windows installation & in the bios & I gave it boot priority 1, installed windows on it & then used windows to install NVMe drivers that made the samsung 950 pro SSDs detectable so I could set them up in a raid 0 in windows as drive D but I still wanted to migrate the OS onto the 950 pros so I ran clonzilla on the USB drive created with YUMI & cloned the OCZ trion onto the 950 pro on the M.2 Ultra port. Clonzilla only detected the hardware not the windows-configured RAID 0 drive so I had to make do with one 950 pro as the C drive & the other as a back up more like a RAID 1 type configuration which is fine for me because they are lightening fast on their own anyway especially on the M.2 ultra port which is up to 32Gb/s. I disconnected the OCZ trion & booted up to see what would happen. It worked. I now have windows installed on a 950 pro connected to the m.2 ultra port & the other 950 pro on the plain m.2 port (up to 5Gb/s) as a back up. This would not have been possible any other way. The drivers to make the drive work are now on the drive itself which is mind-boggling to me. I will be attempting to clone my laptop 512Gb HDD with the dual OS onto a sandisk extreme pro 960Gb SSD soon I'll report back when I've done it.
+Richard Lloyd OK I've done it I now have the SanDisk Extreme Pro 960Gb SSD is in my laptop & it's fast. I now have plenty of extra storage space too on both the windows OS & the mac OS they have been cloned with everything I had installed on them too. & if anything goes wrong I still have the old HDD as a back up. This is awesome dude thank you so much for uploading this video!!
+Galv140577 You are most welcome. I am glad I could help. Thanks for the great feedback and watching.
Hello good, I have a query two days ago I cloned a hard disk as follows:
1. First create the 500GB disk image on a usb disk.
2. Second Mount the Image to a solid state disk of 1000GB, and it works wonderfully.
Well the computer started normal and faster, but when I verify that space had I found that I'm not detecting the 1000Gb solid state disk, so if you had an experience of these I ask you help me by telling me how I can do The computer shows the disk space.
Here is a tool that will help you see and adjust your partition size make sure you keep the 500GB disk image as a backup prior to trying it: th-cam.com/video/0czAJwEbtFs/w-d-xo.html Thanks
When choosing which clonezilla, I noticed the one for AMD64 said it needed to be used for secure uefi. Is that a concern?
If you are dealing with a machine that has uefi and a 64bit instruction set then that is the correct image to use. It will not work if you do not have 64bit machine. Thanks.
hey suppose to i want to make image file of the this pen drive or any other device so what should i want to select ? can you guide me about this
+Nirag Madaliya Choose the same option I choose at the 11:17 in the video after it boots completely the boot drive is no longer being used and can be copied from there. Thanks.
I have tried to create the usb boot. It says yumi can not find the configuration file. Clonezilla is not supported.
Thank you very much for the video! I want to do a clone of my current hard drive to an old one I have that is smaller as an emergency backup. 1TB to a 500GB. Less than 500GB is used on the 1TB source drive. Will it let me do this?
Yes you can. Size on the disk only matter. Forget about 1TB or 500GB
thank you everything worked,
but one thing was odd which i saw after the cloning. The HDD that the data was copied to was formatted the same way as the original HDD. That means it suddenly was about 250gb smaller than before. The Problem is already fixed at the time of writing.
How did you fix it? Thanks.
i just added the unformatted 250gb with windows. I don't know how it's called in english.
Beware of this method!!
I tried it and I couldn't boot into any of the SDDs (source or target). Other tutorial mentioned that with this process you cant' have both disks working in the same machine after the cloning, Clonezilla changes something with the UUID of the disks. I ended up formatting and making a normal installation in the target disks (it takes longer than usual), after a couple of boots the source got functional and the target stops booting, so I repeat the process once again.
I did not experience the same thing as you. Thank you so much for watching, commenting, the valuable feedback and the very kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.👍😀
Did you do a server edition video? May you please make one if you haven't
Yes I did. Here you go th-cam.com/video/yOVlpe5lEbo/w-d-xo.html Thanks
Thank you, I will hit you with more questions as I go, just in case I have problems. Thanks again.
You are welcome. Happy to help when I can. Thanks.
I don't know if this is a problem, but my MULTIBOOT drive ,(D:) in my case, only has the "multiboot:" file no ".disk" file like yours is this bad? Or will it still work?
Try it and see. Thanks.
I got the same thing on mine. Did yours work? I have not tried mine yet.
cooldog60 don't know ended up not needing it
can I install the clonezilla on a hdd that is in my computer (not source and not destination drive) and if I can, do I have to remove all the data off that drive first?
It is possible. To put Clonezilla live on a harddrive with OS installed already, check this doc clonezilla.org/livehd.php Thanks
Richard Lloyd thx!
Hi, when i am loading the image onto a new machine I get the rror message the Destination Disk is too small. The PC image i am copying has a 250gb as does the destination PC. My external hardrive however has 1tb. how can i resolve this?
Are you sure that you are trying to copy the correct drive on to right drive? If you are trying to copy the 1TB drive to the 250GB it will give you that error. Also make sure the the 1TB drive is properly formatted. Thanks.
You did not show how you installed Clonezilla onto the USB. Did you just copy the file or did you have to extract the actual program?
+Ironmanxp I used Yumi to install it to the USB dirve. You can see that at 3:30 in the video. Thanks.
+Ironmanxp better use tuxboot ... just follow the step and it will make an bootable drive for ya ...
So...... I want to take one machine install windows install 40 programs then copy the drive and install on many machines. would they all have same programs and everything trying to speed up PC distribution at work otherwise I need to install all 40 programs on every desktop thank you nice video
Thank you for video . My laptop has 2 hard drive inside it . How i clone both in one
I guess you'd have to create 2 partitions in the target disk one for each disk to be cloned!
It will work on windows 10 ?
yes
Went through all the steps and after yumi finished, i only have the multiboot folder not the .disk. What do i do?
Janae Graber you will have that it will just be hidden
Is it possible to clone installed window and install it later when u need it , without adding product key during installation ,if it is possible then let me know how. Thanks
Clonezilla has a huge document database on all these subjects. You can start here drbl.org/faq/ and here clonezilla.org/clonezilla-usage/clonezilla-live-videos.php Thanks.
you should be able to complete this with an unattended .xml file
clear explanation, helpful.
Thanks for sharing this i need to clone an image from 1 pc to deploy to 7 others.
also subscribed. Thanks again!
+Jim Cullinan You are welcome. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
Could you please instruct me how to make a complete bootable W10 usb drive? Thanks & Regards.
I will consider making a video on that subject. Thanks.
Still works great today... Thanks 👍
Hi.. I get an error kernel panic - not syncing. attempted to kill init!
Most likely the version you are using is not compatible with your hardware. Try a different version or try it on different hardware. Thanks
Thanks for the very useful info!!
You are most welcome. Thank you for watching. All the best.
will it work if i had 2 ntfs partitions, 2 ext4 partitions and a swap partition on a 500 gb hdd?
It can copy all those file systems. I have copied dual boot Windows and Linux drives without issues. I can't guarantee it but I can say most likely it will. Thanks.
Oh nice. thanks for the info.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching.
Can you tell me if i need a M2 B or M ssd?
I want to clone a hard drive of hp laptop to Dell hard drive. Is it possible?
Everytime I'm on the boot menu and try to make a selection my pc just keeps restarting back normally
There are many boot modes available, you can see that at the 10:10 point in the video. Try the various options you find there and see what happens. Thanks.
Richard Lloyd I tried the others for the USB mode, it still did the same thing
Which version of Clonezilla are you using? There are three versions. Try using the I686 version if you are not using it or if you are try using the amd64 instead. Thanks.
Good Job dude ...
Thank you for watching, commenting and the kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.
I have a problem that you may just have solved Richard. See, my ex-office people lost a motherboard that had dac-easy with some 2nd quarter files they needed. I plan to get a cable for the old ide to usb and clone the drive so it can be booted with the original xp software. Think I can do that with your "fix" ? I hope so.
I hope so too. Thanks again. All the best.
how to clear RAM after setup?
Thank You. It's a helpful video.
I followed ur instructions to clone my PS3 hdd but it didn't work. Any alternatives?
There are many free linux clone software versions available. Google linux clone software and you will find them. Thanks.
My computer recognises my External ssd as a local disk. How can I solve this?
So my computer is 64bit, Should I download 32x or 64x version? :3
+Izzaldin Samir If you are only going to use it on this computer I would recommend the 64 bit version but if you are going to use it on multiple computers then the 32 bit version as it will work on both 64bit computers and 32 bit computers. Thanks.
Thank you. That's was my idea but I just wanted to check from you! (Sorry Bad English)
+Izzaldin Samir You are welcome. Thanks for watching.
You are welcome too :D
Can I use Clonezilla to clone a hard drive with one partition with Windows and another with Ubuntu?
Yes I did this two days ago to upgrade from a 1TB drive to a 2TB drive in my laptop. Note that it will most likely use the same partition size on the clone as on the original but you can use the Gparted tool to grow the partitions appropriately. Here is a link to my video on that tool: th-cam.com/video/0czAJwEbtFs/w-d-xo.html Thanks.
yes, I did it to practice (backup and restore) the process many times...
thank you! your video helped me a lot !
+Per Bertelsen You are welcome. Thanks for watching.
Despite telling my laptop to boot through my USB in the BIOS it still boots through the SSD. Any help?
Nevermind, my DUMBASS forgot to put it into legacy mode
Cheers Mate !
Thank you for watching, commenting and the kind words. I appreciate it greatly. All the best.
OCS cant read the usb pls help only the harddisk apear
are you able to give one on one tutoring.
thank you this video helped out alot
This would work with GNU/Linux, I already have it on CD for future purposes, it's based on the Linux kernel
Khyree Holmes That is correct. It will boot on it's own as well using GNU/Linux on a Linux Kernel. Thanks for watching and commenting.
You're Welcome.
I meant to say it will backup Linux and Windows.
Khyree Holmes Correct again. I use to back up my dual boot system with a Windows 7 NTFS partition and a Linux (Ubuntu) EXT3 partition. Works like a charm. Thanks again.
backing up a dual booted system is just the easy, Wow.... I'm surprised Windows liked it.
Khyree Holmes Yes it worked without a problem. I have done it several times at this point with no problem. Thanks.
Does this work for m.2
Thank you very much
You are most welcome. Thanks for watching. All the best.
How does Clonezilla handle USB 3.0?
I have installed it to a USB 3.0 32GB stick and booted it using a USB 3.0 port without issue. I have not tested them for USB 3.0 speed though. Thanks.