
You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients. Multicast is supported in Clonezilla SE, which is suitable for massively clone.LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported.For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows and Intel-based Mac OS. Filesystem supported: ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS (testing feature provided by partclone).You can use a nifty utility called Clonezilla to do this for free.

In How to install/replace a PATA (IDE) hard drive we shared a video showing how to physically replace an ATA or IDE hard drive.īut what about your old data? Well, you can copy this from your old hard drive with a number of utilites, Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image being some of the more popular commerical programs. Norton Ghost is an extremely useful utility that allows you to duplicate one hard drive to another.
