[nmglug] Hard Drive Cloning with Free Software

[pi]

William D. Nystrom wrote:
> 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.

www.sysresccd.org has partimage-client. you can set up partimaged on a 
machine that mounts the USB drive, and send the partitons that way.

HTH,

Pi

 >  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,
>