I have an older PC running OS/2 and need to clone and/or image the hard drive. Which software utility will do this for me? Thanks
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IBM OS/2 Hard Drive Imaging/Cloning
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, Oct 29 2018 12:01 PM
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Posted 29 October 2018 - 12:51 PM
Clonezilla Live CD can do it but because the HPFS OS2 OS is not supported in Clonezilla you would need to use the sector by sector option using Advanced mode. Doing this would require you to have a disk as least as large as the one you are imaging or cloning.
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/advanced/05-advanced-param.php
Edit: If this is very old hardware you may have problems with the newer hard drives. I believe there was a size limit on hard drives because of firmware limitations but I can't be sure about that.
Edited by JohnC_21, 29 October 2018 - 01:12 PM.
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Posted 19 January 2019 - 05:33 PM
+1 for Clonezilla, but keep in mind cloning utilities are not OS specific. By definition, cloning is duplicating the contents of drive onto another, the operating system and the file system, are essentially irrelevant. If you're instead attempting to use a copy command or copy function of a GUI the contents of a drive onto another drive, than yes, you need to take into account the file system and operating system involved (along with hidden files, metadata, numerous other things that are more problematic and can be avoided by instead relying on cloning for such tasks.)
So use Clonezilla's advanced mode if you want to or need to of course, but there are options there that are better left as their defaults if you don't know what they relate to. For most people, the default mode is quite adequate for most situations.
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Posted 22 January 2019 - 10:43 AM
+Clonezilla as well just bear in mind you will need extra option if the HDD is a different size.
If the target disk size is larger than the size of source disk of the image, you can try to use the option "-k1" which will create the partition table proportionally in the target disk and turn on the option "-r" to resize the file. File system in the partition automatically. This is useful to make use all of the target disk sizes.
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Posted 22 January 2019 - 05:22 PM
Though dated this quick reference card can help showing the options in clonezilla.
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Posted 24 August 2019 - 06:55 PM
Hey guys and gals, would DVD or USB booted macrium reflect or easeUS or anything similar be worth considering?
Edited by RolandJS, 24 August 2019 - 06:57 PM.
"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin revisited.
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