Clonezilla disk imaging and cloning tool
Clonezilla is a free and open-source clone system (OCS) solution for disk imaging and cloning designed by Steven Shiau, one of the developers of the application. Clonezilla Live is a small bootable GNU/Linux distribution for x86/amd64 (x86-64) based computers. The cloning software is very easy to use. It is provided with a wealth of drivers, and the flexible nature of the Linux operating system. The flexible and powerful tool has a simple interface with some efficient inner workings which makes it easy to work even on machines with less than 256MB of memory. The step-by-step nature of the wizard of the program makes it easy for any user to use the program. Each step is presented as a simple question along with some advice and few useful options. As mentioned above, there are two types of Clonezilla available: Clonezilla Live has an edge over Clonezilla SE since the former eliminates any DRBL server setup requirement and the need for the computer being cloned to boot from a network.
How to Install Clonezilla Live
Download pre-build Clonezilla Live and feed it to,
CD/DVD – Download ISO file available for CD. Burn the ISO file to a CD/DVD using a suitable burning program for your Windows and select the ‘Burn image’ option. The CD can then be used to boot the machine you want to image or clone.USB flash drive/USB hard drive – Some PCs (Dell INSPIRON mini, Acer Aspire One, Asus Eee) do not have CD/DVD drive. In such a case, it is best to use a USB flash drive/USB hard drive to boot Clonezilla Live.
Once finished, you can use the bootable Clonezilla Live media to boot it in the machine you want to clone.
Minimum System Requirements:
X86 or x86-64 processor196 MB of system memory (RAM)Boot device- CD/DVD Drive, USB port
Clonezilla Live now includes many major improvements and various bug fixes and is capable to work on both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7 computers. To know more you can visit here. These 7 Freeware Acronis True Image Alternatives & Norton Ghost Alternatives may also interest you.
