I am wanting to save/clone the entire drive of my old IDE 40 gb hard drive . If I have this hard drive plugged into an IDE to USB adapter and then plugged into my laptop USB connector can I simply clone it to another seperate hard drive or actually on my C drive ? What software do I need to do this ? I dont know if this changes anything , but the system already installed on my old IDE hard drive is LINUX.
IDE drive copy
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kenrivers
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- Dec 29, 2010
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If you wish to clone the IDE drive to the drive on your laptop I would strongly encourage you to create a separate partition on that drive. Otherwise you could overwrite the existing drive. You can use something from Acronis or EaseUS to clone the drive.
You may be interested in just imaging the drive. Look at the dd and dd_rescue manual. Once you image the drive you can install it onto a new drive or run it on a virtual machine such as VirtualBox OSE. I can't think of the full commands off the top of my head but that should get you started.
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