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I have bought a new internal HDD hard drive as the previous one is old enough now I use Ubuntu and Kali Linux in dual boot and I have done a lot of customization and don't want to do that again with fresh install how do I clone both Kali Linux and Ubuntu as it is now to the new internal HDD without losing any data?

Rane Navis
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  • thanx a lot I have checked but my doubt is do I have to do it os by os like first Ubuntu then Kali or I can do both at the same time – Rane Navis Aug 06 '20 at 19:16
  • Clonezilla can clone the whole drive to a new drive of at least the same size (not one single byte smaller). – sudodus Aug 06 '20 at 19:32
  • Only supported releases of Ubuntu (standard support) are on-topic for this site. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is EOL (end-of-life) thus off-topic, and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM is in extended support and only supported by Canonical via Ubuntu Advantage thus also off-topic here. Refer https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades – guiverc Aug 06 '20 at 20:08
  • You've tagged an EOL/ESM release so are off-topic, however FYI you can re-install without loosing settings with Ubuntu and official flavors (I don't know about Kali). – guiverc Aug 06 '20 at 20:10

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Copy the entire drive from one to another. The destination drive needs to be bigger or at least the same size as the source:

Boot into an install cd/usb, "try without installing"

Open gnome-disks or gparted or sudo fdisk -l: So you can identify which drive is which.

Open a terminal

sudo dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=1M status=progress

substituting X and Y for the device names you found on your system
/dev/sdX - (the old drive) the entire device, not just a partition(ie sdX1,sdX2).
/dev/sdY - (the new drive) again your writing to the entire device.

Should take a while depending on the size.

WU-TANG
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