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^ There is no ready-to-use Live CD with this utility.

In general this applies also to Linux-based rescue CDs (although they may not provide dd explicitly as their primary tool, they still may give access to a shell which allows dd invocation). However Live CDs of various flavors of Linux should include dd as a part of coreutils.

^ There is no Live OS dedicated specially to dd.

^ dd's clone images can be mounted as loop device.

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^ At the trial version, you can't perform Disk Cloning feature via UI nor Rescue disc.^ At the Disk Cloning mode, Sector by sector feature is automatically applied and it's the only one way.Mounting a disk image is the process of making the disk image content available to the user as if he or she is accessing a physical read-only disk. ^ Extracting is the process of browsing a disk image and retrieving some of the files that it contains, at the user's discretion.Implies use of shadow copy or a similar technique.

^ Hot transfer refers to copying the contents of a volume on which there are open files in use.

The target disk's layout may not resemble that of the source disk. It requires the cloning utility to have a knowledge of the file systems on the source disk.

^ File-based transfer (as opposed to sector-by-sector transfer), involves opening all files and copying their contents, one by one.

^ Sector-by-sector transfer involves accessing the disk directly and copying the contents of each sector, thus accurately reproducing the layout of the source disk.

SystemRescue - includes PartImage, Partclone, ntfsclone and FSArchiver.

It is from the same creators and the base of Clonezilla.

Partclone is a GPL partition clone and restore tool that works with almost any filesystem.

UFS (beta), HFS (beta), NTFS (experimental)

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