Copy entire HDD using PCDiskClone

PCDiskClone is a Linux LiveCD based boot CD that allows cloning of computer hard drives to backup data or migrating system to another PC. It copies all data on physical level with a full support of IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB, Firewire Interfaces. Besides these compatabilites, PCDiskClone clones at a high speed of more than 7GB per miniute.

PCDiskClone is especially programmed for external backup and computer replacement . If you are going to back up your computer to external USB or Firewire disk, or going to replace your old computer with new one without reinstalling Windows and software in the new one. PCDiskClone is the right tool for you. With the help of PCDiskClone, you can easily copy entire hard drive to a new one. Your Windows System, software, personal files and music will be exactly there. The ease of use allows not only PC beginners but technicians and professional users to handle their tasks easily.

PC Disk Clone User-Guide

We will give out an example on how to use PCDiskClone.
In this example, we will clone a 80GB hard drive to another 160GB new USB hard drive.

1. Start up
   Insert PCDiskClone CD, Set BIOS to boot from CD/DVD-ROM.
   The first page presents to user is a list of disk(s) and partition(s) which will be cloned to another media.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Details Introduction 
   As you can see from the screenshot below, there are Logo, Hint, Content, Operation Buttons and Software Version.



Details of each disk/partition are listed for users to identified the disk/partition he/she wants.



• Bootable: Described only by partitions. It characterized itself to be a bootable partition, which means Operating
  Systems like Windows and Linux possibly reside in this partition
• Type: Type of a hard drive, identifies if a partition is internal or external one. Internal disks are marked as “Fixed”.
  External disks, such as USB or Firewire disks, are marked as “Removable”.
• Device: Identifies if it’s a whole disk or only a partition of a disk.
• Description: Displays device information. Serial number will be displayed if it is a hard disk, else the file system type will
  replace the content to specified the file system type. Users can distinguish the familiar strings like “FAT32” or “NTFS”
  from this column.
• Start：The start sector in the whole disk of each partition. Users can find the physically deployed order of all partitions
  on each hard drive.
  Normally, its order corresponds to the drive letter in Windows System.
• Size:  The capacity of a hard disk or partition.


3. Choose your source disk
   We can find the 80GB and 160GB in this list. We choose the 80GB one and click “Next”
   



4. Choose destination disk
   We choose 160GB disk as the destination disk. And click “Next”.
   
   
   
   


5. Activate the partition
   Now, let’s explain this option. This option has no effect on Disk to Disk operation. Check this box, PCDiskClone will activate the
   destination partition as a bootable partition when user is doing Partition to Partition operation. Only bootable partition
   can tell the computer which partition
   has the operation system like Windows.
   
   
   We can leave this option to default.
   
   
   Click “Start” button, a Dialog will ask you to confirm all the selections.
   
   
   Click “Yes” to start.
   



6. Finish Clone
   The realtime process will display on progress bar.
   
   
   
   After finish clone, a dialog will pop up displaying the start and end time of the whole clone process.