Need a Distro that can Clone from a USB Drive to a SATA Drive

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aol

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As the title says (and maybe a bit of other assistance as well if anyone is willing to provide it).

I am at a point of having completed the cloning of an XP MCE OEM 64-bit copy of windows installed on an IDE drive to a USB drive.

The process as of now will be cloning that cloned USB drive to the installed SATA drive so I can then run a stock/semi-custom 32-bit version of windows XP repair mode from CD from boot because it has modern drivers/controllers on it supposedly to repair any withstanding issues that will obviously arise.

This of course is the 20th step, as I had to already prep the OS on the USB drive for the AMD cpu it will now be using (came from an Intel cpu). Had taken care of the intelppm.sys issue, and inconsequentially took care of the intelide.sys non-issue (sp3, etc) anyway. As of right now I am experiencing the obvious Hal.dll issue. Tried running a strictly XP Recovery CD iso before from CD to the USB drive which was set as Primary, but experienced a pci.sys error.

So that's the stage I am at...the point of: making a clone of a cloned USB drive to the already installed SATA drive.

Just need a distro that specializes in cloning EASILY that can both make ISO clones of a drive, and distribute them back to a drive, but also make and distribute a direct clone without the making of an ISO. A step by step process and experience with the software you recommend would be beneficial from someone as I really don't want to F this up.


Thanks.
 
Any reason you can't just fresh install?

It's going to run like garbage if you can even get it to boot.
 
aldan said:
if you have wd drives acronis true image is the program you want to look at.
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I didn't know Acronis only worked with wd...either way they're not wd.


aldan said:
if not macrium reflect.ive used both and both are free.http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
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Well I am looking for a linux live boot distro that I can perform both ISO and Clone functions with. I used Macrium for the initial cloning. Worked great. But unless I am mistaken I don't think they ever dealt with a Linux environment.
 
Okay, I am very confused at what you are doing. If it's a Linux clone environment you are looking for, AOMEI Backuper has an option once installed on a computer to create a Linux clone disk. It will ask you to download the ISO. http://www.aomeitech.com/

The other option is using a hard drive tool in UBCD4Win.
http://www.ubcd4win.org/contents.htm


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aol said:
I didn't know Acronis only worked with wd...either way they're not wd.
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It doesn't; it works with all drives. But WD has a special version you can download that they provide on their site you can use with WD drives.
 
aol said:
Those reasons are personal.

Why even post a comment if you have no solution or can't say anything supportive? It's been done. People have done this.
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Why complain when somebody points out that there are better solutions? Since you can't even supply a basic reason, why should I feel vaguely compelled to help you with your inferior implementation?

Just use dd between devices, no need to need a specific distro. Clearly you aren't very experienced in computing. It also helps to not be a dick if you expect people to help you.
 
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