i have installed dual OS such as win-vista and fedora 13....now i want copy or clone entire setup from one HDD to another HDD....Is this possible ?. i need your help.

yes, you need to boot linux from usb key with unetbootin and than carefully use dd command that will copy entire disk with all partitions.

Try Clonezilla that's a good "go to" toolbox for anything to do with disk/partition cloning.

There's many tutorials covering this. Pick one that's easy for you to follow. You can always ask here if you're not sure about how suitable a given tutorial is. (many may be outdated)
Google can be your friend.

It is possible however you'd need to know some stuff if you want to use any of the 50 or so free ways.

Some commercial products fix those issues for you. Acronis and others can do clones and fix some of the issues that might need a user to edit.


For the most part there are two basic ways. One is file based copies. The other is bit by bit.

I have found clonezilla to be a good and reliable tool for image backup/copy of system disks. It works well on both MSWIN and Linux disks. It can move from a big to a small disk, as well as from small to big. It can create the boot sector and partition table, or you can tell it to use a partition table you just made. It can also move from a single disk to a raid disk and vice versa. It can do image backup/restore to compressed archive on a file server like NFS of CIFS as well as straight moving a system disk from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb. It only copies the used nodes/clusters, but you can tell it to also copy the unused. It can do on the fly file system checking for you, or just copy "as is". And if you clone a MSWIN system with NTFS it will schedule a boot time filesystem check on the copy.

I have clonezilla netbootable so that i can just netboot a computer to take an image backup to store in the NAS, and also a USB disk with a bootable clonezilla partition, and this solves almost all cases of backups or cloning.

When i do disaster recovery i start with an image backup with clonezilla, (or in some cases my own utility if the disk is heavily damaged), then i do the work. If something goes wrong i can reimage and try again. When i am finished i do another backup, and immediately write it back to the disk and, voila! The windows disk is fully defragmented.

Clonezilla hasn't failed me yet.