I do my major backups of the operating system by producing a couple of clones of the operating system disc.

I too fell foul of the discontinuation of Partition copy and also, more importantly for me, Disc copy on Partition Wizard. The GUI for Gparted -there's also a bootable stand alone version too - 100% free and seems reasonably Windows like BTW If a Windows disk is mounted partitions are listed similarly - dd in any case doesn't care two hoots about file systems either - just physically copies data in the same geometry as source file / disk.

Partitions in linux are shown typically as /dev/sdxn where n is the partition number. (the dd command can copy partitions, the whole disk or just the boot sector - the basic command is (run as sudo or root) dd if= of= bs=64M status=progress I don't really like easus to do or minitool partition wizard in any case - gave up using them years ago. I know this is Windows Forums but if you can learn a little bit of linux the easy way to copy partitions - just boot up a live distro and run the dd command or have a live distro that includes GPARTED -the GUI is so identically like most Windows partition managers that anybody can run it - also a live distro won't destroy your existing Windows installations. Welcome Easeus Partition Master Free!Hi thereĪ load of companies are doing this -removing features from previously free versions - Times are getting desparate !!

I am saddened to find that Minitool Partition Wizard Free version 12 has removed the option to copy partitions to another drive unless you pay.

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