I have used clonezilla to make clones from my filesystems for backup reasons. It worked perfectly. You should actually bother to read what that software can do from the websites.
Never really used adept manager because the APT package manager will do the same job in terminal. You should try to uninstall the skype using the APT from the terminal.
try to type this
sudo aptitude remove skype
Hope this helps
Hello. Can you copy+paste your hardware list to here ? just type dmesg and tell everything what it will tell you.
Btw. Hello to all you linux-noob users !