How do I duplicate or clone an entire partition?

[jackg]

I know there would be some way of doing this. I only want to use Diskpart and Cmd for cloning files.

I see information about this from Google, but it is unspecific to what I need as microsoft write protects the windows file and so I cannot do a full copy.
I don't want to run a windows backup as I have three partitions to backup and that would serve to slow me down as it creates zipped folders first (which takes a long time).

[Bitsky]

1. Boot Clonezilla
2. Boot Knoppix and use dd
3. Run Windows in a VM on LVM and do snapshots
4. If it has to be inside Windows, take a look at Acronis Trueimage
5. Do a slow initial sync and then use Freefilesync to update

[jackg]

1. Boot Clonezilla
2. Boot Knoppix and use dd
3. Run Windows in a VM on LVM and do snapshots
4. If it has to be inside Windows, take a look at Acronis Trueimage
5. Do a slow initial sync and then use Freefilesync to update

I cannot run virtual machines sadly, but thanks for the help.

My computer states that it is unable to run hardware accelerated VM programs.
I tried running ubuntu from a DVD-R in my laptop but it said that it was unable to load from the drive.
I then tried the same thing with my hard drive, but it took too long, I will have to go back and try to load it from tat with a program similar to diskpart.