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Disk to disk clone : Clone small disk to larger disk (e.g. 20 GB to 60 GB) (Step by step)
  1. Prepare Clonezilla live
  2. Boot your Clonezilla live via USB
  3. Choose "ToRAM" option in the boot menu
  4. Choose language
  5. Choose keyboard layout
  6. Choose "Start Clonezilla"
  7. Choose "disk_to_local_disk"
  8. Choose source disk
  9. Choose target disk
  10. Start cloning
  11. Disk is cloned
Choose "ToRAM" option in the boot menu
In the boot menu, we choose "(VGA 800x600 & To RAM)" or ""(VGA with large font & To RAM)"


By doing this, all the Clonezilla live file on the new hard drive will be copied to RAM. Therefore the partition of new hard drive can be released, i.e. it won't be busy and locked by running programs.
Press Enter, you will see Debian Linux booting process, and it will spend a few minutes when copying the files to RAM:
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