On my local fleet of 10 PCs, the range for applications is from a low of 24 to a high of 120 for Store apps, it ranges from 49 to 81.
Whether it’s running Windows 10 or 11, chances are that it’s running at least a couple of dozen Windows applications (.exe files), and at least four dozen Microsoft Store apps. Like that you'll always have the original drive as a backup and you don't need to worry whether the backup is really functional.Look around a typical Windows desktop. Boot from the cloned drive to see if everything is still fine.Create a copy from the internal disk to the external, copying partitions directly (not as a file).In your case, the following approach may be best: As an alternative, you can also copy the partitions directly, destroying the file system on the destination disk. It can even compress the file so you save additional disk space and can keep several backup copies. Larger target disk: TrueImage will copy the contents into a single file, so it does not care about the size of the disk. In that case, you'll not be able to restore deleted files. For partition types known to TrueImage, you could also skip the free space.
A license is at ~40 €.ġ:1 clone: sector-by-sector cloning is possible. I don't know if they provide the ability to boot from USB stick in case you don't have an optical drive.Ĭommercial: It's neither free nor open-source.
Almost all steps can be done via commands and options. Clonezilla live also can be booted on a BIOS or uEFI machine. Both MBR and GPT partition formats of hard drive are supported.LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported.īoot loader, including grub (version 1 and version 2) and syslinux, could be reinstalled.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, Intel-based Mac OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Minix, VMWare ESX and Chrome OS/Chromium OS, no matter it's 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS.