Windows/Linux Dual Boot HD Cloning?

[ronbo613]

Is there any cloning/imaging software that can clone a Windows XP Pro/Linux Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot hard drive?

 

[Coup27]

Acronis true image home 2012 does support a range of Linux file systems so it may be able to do it. It also has a sector by sector feature but that will require equal space to the size of your current disk.

Paragon drive backup also supports Linux file systems and I have had good experiences with O&O disk image 6 which has forensic reading and writing methods.

Think it may be a case of doing some trials.

 

[ronbo613]

Think it may be a case of doing some trials.

I was planning some trial and error work, I was hoping somebody had done it before to save me some time and provide a start point.
Thanks for your input, I've used Paragon and Acronis before, they are on the list....

 

[paperwastage]

clonezilla works too

*ubuntu 11.10 + w7 pro

 

[ronbo613]

clonezilla works too

Cool. Downloaded it and have it on my list of stuff to try. Just went to #1.

 

[Soulkeeper]

gparted is a nice livecd distro designed for partition management.

 

[ronbo613]

gparted is a nice livecd distro designed for partition management.

I've used gparted to help migrate operating systems from a hard drive to an SSD, but I'm not sure how it would handle the boot sectors of a dual boot cloning operation.

 

[ronbo613]

Clonezilla did the job.
I've used Acronis for my Windows cloning tasks, I think I will switch to Clonezilla; more options.

 

[paperwastage]

Clonezilla did the job.
I've used Acronis for my Windows cloning tasks, I think I will switch to Clonezilla; more options.

great to hear this.....

With clonezilla + SSDs, no reason not to backup the SSD into a HDD regularly(my 96GB takes less than 10 minutes to dump)

 

[ronbo613]

With clonezilla + SSDs, no reason not to backup the SSD into a HDD regularly

I use cloning software like Clonezilla mainly on XP and Linux computers. With the SSD I have on my Windows 7 rig, I use the Windows Backup/Imaging tool to back up the boot drive to various hard drives.