![]() They just copy it exactly, and can write the copy to another drive directly, or save it to a disk image file on a mounted partition. They don't care what's on it, what type of file systems are being used, or anything else. When you use that type of utility (either dd or ddrescue from Linux), you're making an *EXACT* block by block copy of the source drive. In my case, I used ddrescue (a linux utility) to make a full disk image backup (sector by sector copy of the source drive, including all unused space on it), storing it to a mounted partition on a 2TB Drive like this:ĭdrescue /dev/sda /media/sdg5/20140316_samsung.img /media/sdg5/2014036_samsung.log I just made disk image backups last night of an SSD I have Win 8.1 installed on. ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to avoid this in the future, so am asking for advice on software for making clone backups. I lost a few (relatively insignificant) files when my last PC melted down, and of course now I am having to re-install everything on the new PC. So, I would like to start making clone backups on a regular basis. I have two external drives-a 1TB and 2 TB LaCie drives. I will eventually change the partition allocation to increase C and decrease D (not sure how to do this yet, but will figure it out). I recently bought a new Asus PC (i5 Haswell, 8Gb, Win 8.1, etc), which came with a C drive partition of around 150 Gb and a D partition of 750 Gb.
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