Copy Hard Drive

jstevens
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Copy Hard Drive

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I have a hard drive (Drive01) which I would like to copy to a new larger drive (Drive02). Drive01 has a UDF partition that comes up in Windows Explorer as a CD drive having 20 MB of space being used. The rest of the drive does not become visible until I run some software in the 20MB space to unlock the drive.

I'm looking for advice on how to clone the 20MB section. I use Paragon Disk Manager software and have tried to copy the hard disk to the new drive. My first attempt did not copy over the 20MB or UDF partition.

Any advice would be appreciated
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Re: Copy Hard Drive

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You might want to take a look at Clonezilla (http://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-d ... a-live.doc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)
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You need to copy the partition from the source to the destination.
Partition apps like MiniTool Partition Manager or DriveImage XML are able to copy partitions from drive to drive directly.

See this step by step for the know-how...
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