[nmglug] Hard Drive Cloning with Free Software

[William D. Nystrom]

Does anyone know of a way to do a bit by bit copy of a hard drive in a
laptop to a USB hard drive connected to the laptop using free software?
I believe this is called hard drive cloning.  I have a hard drive with
Windows XP Home on it and another that has both Windows XP Home and Red
Hat Fedora Core 3 partitions.  I'm interested in doing some significant
modifications to both of these hard drives and wanted to be able to back
them up to a USB hard drive before making the modifications.  If there
was a way to do this with some sort of linux boot or rescue CD then that
would be really great.

Thanks,

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Dave Nystrom
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