Question simplest software to clone drive?

[GunsMadeAmericaFree]

I'm getting 4 thin clients (Wyse 5070), and I'd like to set them up to dual boot with an old version of Windows (to play some old games),Linux Mint, and maybe Batocera Linux for retro gaming. Once I get one set up exactly as I'd like, I would like to make an image, then clone it to the other 3.

Can anyone recommend a simple software for accomplishing this?

Thanks!

 

[jamesdsimone]

I used this to image my boot drive. I haven't tried yet but you can take the image and restore it to as many drives as you need. I don't think the drives need to be the same size as the original either like when you clone a drive.

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[balloonshark]

I don't know about easy but the older Marcrium Reflect free version is a solid program.

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Seagate and Western Digital used to have a free version of Acronis or Paragon if I remember correctly. Samsung also has a data migration tool. I don't know if you have to own that specific brand of drive in order to use these tools.

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[kschendel]

There's always dd if=/dev/rfrom of=/dev/rto bs=4k (or some larger appropriate bs).