Windows tool to clone a Linux drive?

[Quattro Pete]

What free tool would you recommend that runs under Windows for cloning an entire Linux drive (ext4)?

Macrium Reflect?
MiniTool ShadowMaker?

 

[Touring5]

I'm a fan of Macrium Reflect. I use it to do scheduled backups of my Windows drive. I'm not 100% certain it can clone/image ext, but I'd be surprised if it can't. That said, it couldn't handle UFS from an opendBSD drive I had opnsense on.

 

[jayjr1105]

Why does it have to be windows? Just make a clonezilla flash drive, boot to that and clone

 

[AandPDan]

Yup. Use Clonezilla, for everything

 

[JohnnyG]

Won't the built in Linux utility (Disks) do the trick? I see where it will create a disk image.

 

[jayjr1105]

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1

or

ddrescue -v -v -f -b 4096 /dev/[source] /dev/[destination]

 

[Lubener]

Ghost.

 

[haggler]

use clonezilla or a live usb and "dd"
The only issue i could imagine is you may have to reize your partition (expand) after if the new one is larger.

 

[jayjr1105]

use clonezilla or a live usb and "dd"
The only issue i could imagine is you may have to reize your partition (expand) after if the new one is larger.

clonezilla offers to proportionally resize the partitions if the new drive is larger.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Ended up using Clonezilla. Thanks all!