How to Make Clonezilla Bootable USB for Disk Cloning

Create a Clonezilla boot USB drive: Windows 11/10 System Disk Cloning Guide

Using Clonezilla for disk cloning requires a Clonezilla boot USB disk. This article will guide you on how to create this boot USB drive in Windows 11/10 system and provide a more convenient alternative to disk cloning.

Overview of Clonezilla boot USB drive

Clonezilla is an excellent disk image/clone software for system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. To cloning a hard drive using Clonezilla, booting the USB drive is essential.

Booting a USB drive is a USB flash drive configured to run Clonezilla to image or clone a single computer. It is portable and flexible and can be used on any computer without CD/DVD or network connection. In the event of a system crash, it can also quickly boot to the recovery environment, perform backup and recovery tasks, avoid data loss and restore the PC to a working state.

How to create a Clonezilla boot USB drive (Windows 11/10)

Create a Clonezilla boot USB drive using Rufus:

Step 1: Download Clonezilla from the official website:

• Visit Clonezilla's official website: https://www.php.cn/link/8c67c2ac63f3a3c9517e2e4c8c72798f
• Click the "Live release" version to enter the download page.
• Select the CPU architecture according to your PC specifications, select “iso” from the drop-down menu, and click the “Download” button to download the Clonezilla ISO image.

Step 2: Connect your USB drive to your computer.

Step 3: Download Rufus and double-click the installer to launch it, and select the USB flash drive.

Step 4: Select the Clonezilla ISO image you downloaded and Rufus will automatically configure all settings. Then, click START to start burning the ISO file to your drive.

After creating Clonezilla boot USB disk, you can boot Windows 11/10 from the drive and run Clonezilla for disk cloning.

More convenient Windows 11/10 disk cloning method

If you lack computer skills, using Clonezilla for disk cloning can be more complicated. MiniTool ShadowMaker provides a simpler cloning solution.

MiniTool ShadowMaker is a PC backup software and disk cloning tool that has the following advantages:

• Supports backup and recovery of files, folders, disks, partitions and systems
• Supports automatic, incremental and differential backups
• Support cloning HDDs to SSDs or migrating Windows to another drive
• Support sector-level cloning
• Can create boot USB disk or CD/DVD for backup/clone

MiniTool ShadowMaker has a friendly user interface, and you can easily clone your hard disk to another disk in simple steps.

Step 1: Connect the target disk to your PC, start MiniTool ShadowMaker, and click "Keep Trial" to continue.

Step 2: Under "Tools", click "Clone Disk".

Step 3: Select the source drive and the target drive and start cloning.

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