Complete disk cloning - how? --- SOLVED

[eager2no]

I have two identical 400GB had disks partitioned identically, one the backup of the other.
Each has FAT32, NTFS and Linux partitions (dual booting Lin/Win).
Now with the upcoming PCLOS 2010, I'd like to repartition one, do a full reinstall of both Windows and Linux, and then clone the entire disk to the other one.
What is the best method to do this?

Thank you.

[muungwana]

dd command could do that for you ..look at the following link for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29


the following command could that for you

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror

where "/dev/sda" if the drive with the original stuff and "/dev/sdb" is the drive you want to create a copy to

[travisN000]

dd command could do that for you ..look at the following link for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29


the following command could that for you

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror

where "/dev/sda" if the drive with the original stuff and "/dev/sdb" is the drive you want to create a copy to

..probably best done from a liveCD

[eager2no]

muungwana, travisn000,
Thank you.

[Xenaflux]

I believe " Clonezilla " would do that job
http://clonezilla.org/

[davidwillis]

boot from live cd and use this

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rsync -av --stats --delete /mount1/ /mount2
mount1 is where your partition is that you want backed up, and mount2 is the mount point of the partition you are copying too.  Just make sure you double check and get it right otherwise you may just delete your original partition....