# Any accessible drive Cloning Software

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by hardyboy09 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 27-Jun-2015 18:08:56

Is there any accessible drive cloning software?

## Post 2 by forereel (Just posting.) on Saturday, 27-Jun-2015 23:15:36

I use C cleaner.
I don't know what you mean by cleaning exactly, but C cleaner cleans up the junk.

## Post 3 by hardyboy09 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Sunday, 28-Jun-2015 10:43:21

I mean cloning; as in, copying an operating system to a new drive?

## Post 4 by forereel (Just posting.) on Sunday, 28-Jun-2015 11:07:06

Ah, don't know on that score.

## Post 5 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 30-Jun-2015 11:40:59

I've found Xclone to be the most accessible, but its been a year or so since I done it. I also never tested to see if the destination drive was bootable, as I had no reason to do so.

## Post 6 by hardyboy09 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2015 1:32:19

Cool. Thanks for the info.

## Post 7 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 02-Jul-2015 1:45:48

your very welcome.

## Post 8 by CallMeAl (Veteran Zoner) on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2015 7:44:22

clonezilla is a good solution and is available on some accessible linux distributions, such as Talking Arch. So for example with Talking Arch, you'd do the following:
1: Go to http://talkingarch.tk/ and download the iso. Either burn that iso to CD, or follow the instructions in the Arch wiki for making a bootable USB. once you have a bootable version, boot into the Talking ARch Environment and at the command prompt, type "clinezilla" without the quotes. Then just follow the prompts from there. Some familiarity with Linux and how it deals with drives and partitions would help, but even if you haven't used Linux before, you should get the hang of the UI pretty quickly.
Good luck,
Al

## Post 9 by hardyboy09 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 10-Jul-2015 19:33:30

Didn't need the cloning after all, but I do have a question. I noticed that before cloning a hard drive, you have to format it. I'm unable to do this using the disc partition and Windows with Jaws. Why?

## Post 10 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Monday, 13-Jul-2015 5:09:09

You don't *have* to format a destination drive before it receives the clone; all depends on the software you're using & at what level it works. You should be able to format a drive using disk management. If you right click on the partition you want one of the options should be format, so unless the option simply isn't there that's a JFW issue.
Re good software / approaches, nothing has changed since you last asked this question on 30/01/2014.