Hit enter for Top Level unless you have created a Sub Directory that you would prefer.Ĩ. After you have selected the hard drive choice, CloneZilla will ask you if you want to use a specific directory. CloneZilla is good to point out the name of the HDD (if given in Windows) and shows the HDD size making it pretty clear what drive to use. If you have a secondary hard drive, make sure you choose the correct one. I am using an External USB Drive to save my images to. The next window asks where you will want to save your image of your hard disk. Once that completes, CloneZilla will do a full system scan of all the hard disks associated with the computer.ħ. Plug in an External Hard Drive (if you’re using one) if you have not done so already. When you hit enter, a warning will pop up saying that if you want to use a USB device as storage, you should plug it in now. We are going to want to choose Local Disk. There are different options, Local Disk, SSH, Samba Server, NFS server, and WebDav Server. The main window of CloneZilla will ask you to choose where to save the image of your computer. Have no fear, follow my steps and you should be fine.Ħ. Those who are less familiar with open source tools may be unnerved by the lack of a pretty user interface. Choose the default CloneZilla Start option, choose your Language Keyboard, choose Do Not Touch KeyMap, and choose the first option: 'Start CloneZilla Live.' For expert users you may use Command Prompt but that seems overly difficult. Once you are in, go into your BOOT section and manually boot off of the USB Flash Drive. I don’t know what key that is for your computer but it is either F2 or the DEL key by default. Reboot the computer and boot off of the USB Flash Drive.

Once that is complete, make sure that the drive you are mounting CloneZilla to is the USB Flash Drive. Once Tuxboot opens, click on the bottom and choose ISO and click the button to find the location of the CloneZilla live. Select the disk (making sure you do NOT select C: drive or another drive you are using) and right click and format it to NTFS Quick, and give it a Drive Letter.ģ. Go to Windows/My Computer, and right-click on My Computer and select Manage. Once these applications are downloaded, plug in the Flash Drive that you will be using and format it clean, as we will be using this Flash Drive for CloneZilla.

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