Press Enter, you will see Debian Linux booting process, and it will spend a few minutes when copying the files to RAM: it won't be busy and locked by running programs. Therefore the partition of new hard drive can be released, i.e. Boot media can be removed later)'īy doing this, all the Clonezilla live file on the new hard drive will be copied to RAM. In the boot menu, we choose 'Other modes of Clonezilla live' On the IBM thinkpad X61, you can press F12 and choose USB device to force the machine to boot via USB device. Most modern PC comes with USB boot function, you can refer to your montherboard manul to see how to set it during boot.Insert the new hard drive (which is bootable with Clonezilla live builtin) with the USB cable to your machine.

Of coure, if your machine has the space to put 2 disks, the 2nd disk can be the internal disk, not necessary as the external disk.

Put the new disk inside your external disk closure, connect that to your running MS Windows or GNU/Linux via USB cable, then follow here to put Clonezilla live zip file on your external disk and make it bootable.

Prerequisite: A new, equal or larger disk, an external disk closure, a USB cable. Just remember to choose the correct source and destination disks. Of course, you still can put Clonezilla live in CD or USB flash drive, then boot it to clone the 8 GB disk to 20 GB disk. This is an one-time-use Clonezilla live, because later the clonezilla live files on new disk will be overwritten. By doing this, you do not have to burn a CD, or prepare another USB flash drive. put Clonezilla live on the new disk and use it to boot clonezilla live. In this example, we use a better, neater method, i.e. 8 GB to 20 GB instead of modern disk size.īesides, modern 'light' laptop normally comes WITHOUT CD drive, or you happen to leave your USB CD drive in another place, it's a good idea to use USB device to boot Clonezilla live. Here since we use virtual machine to give this example, we use small disk size, i.e. This is a normal case when you buy a new disk to replace old disk on your machine.

In this example, the machine has 1 disk (8 GB), we want to clone it to an external disk (20 GB). 8 GB to 20 GB) (Step by step)įIRST OF ALL, BACK UP IMPORTANT DATA BEFORE YOU USE CLONEZILLA LIVE TO DO ANYTHING. Disk to disk clone In this example: Clone small disk to larger disk (e.g.

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