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From: Kevin W. W. <kev...@gm...> - 2009-01-02 20:15:18
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Kevin W. Wall wrote: > I found suggestion at support.microsoft.com to address this: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940970 > > As I really don't care if previous restore points are recovered or not, > I think I will try this before trying Steve's suggestion or trying > to use 'ntfsclone' as I discussed in my previous post today. > > I'll let this group know if it works or not. I tried this as well as some other similar suggestions I found on Vista forums. vssadmin successfully cleared all the old restore points and I was able to reset the size to the original 12.514GB size, but System Restore still is failing. So guess I will have to retry original suggestion of Steven Shiau to try device-image copy or use ntfsclone directly as I posted earlier this morning. -kevin |
From: Kevin W. W. <kev...@gm...> - 2009-01-02 16:44:07
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Steven Shiau wrote: > Kvein, > > Kevin W. Wall wrote: >> Apologies if this is on the Clonezilla FAQ, but I didn't see it there >> and I am too annoyed (at Windoze) to weed through the thousands of Google >> results on terms "clonezilla", "restore point", "vista", and "problem". >> >> This past weekend I used Clonezilla Live (version 1.2.0-25) to clone 2 >> partitions from my 100GB SATA drive in my Vista laptop. I saved to an external >> USB hard drive. I then replaced the hard drive with a new internal 250GB SATA >> hard drive. >> >> I make sure that the partition tables were the same for the first two >> partitions. I let Clonezilla-Live handle this and then later I confirmed >> with sfdisk before creating logical partitions on a new extended partition >> where I allocated the additional 150GB and later used gparted to divvy that >> up into additional partitions to install Fedora 9 and OpenSuSE 11. >> >> I had the usual problem with booting up Windows Vista, but results that by >> having Grub handle boot-up process, chaining to Vista. That still failed until >> I ran some sort of "rescue" operation from the alternate Windows partition (what >> Vista referred to as the 'D:' drive, which was placed there by the notebook's >> OEM). >> >> So, Windows and both Linux versions have been up and running and for the most >> part, I am happy. (When I eventually completely break free of Windows, I'll be >> even happier, but for now, that's not an option. Sigh. But I digress.) >> >> Anyhow, all was good until today when I wanted to create a "system restore >> point" in Vista. That runs the rstrui.exe utility. When I run that, I get >> the error message: >> There was an unexpected error: >> >> The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. >> (0x8007007B). >> >> System Restore will now close. >> >> If instead, I try to get to it from 'System Properties' >> (SystemPropertiesProtection.exe), I get this error instead: >> >> There was an unexpected error in the property page: >> Incompatible version of the serializing package. (0x80070724) >> >> Please close the property page and try again. >> >> (And under the 'Available Disks' in the 'System Properties' window, >> it just says 'Searching...'; never anything else.) >> >> Now I know these files are there--I can see them under >> "\System Volume Information\" when I mount that partition >> while booted from another OS. >> >> So, here are my questions... >> 1) Is this a known problem with Windows Vista (and XP??) ? I >> thought perhaps they were doing something insane like *directly* >> writing to physical disk blocks and going from one disk geometry >> to another messed up those "restore point" calculations or something. >> > >> 2) Is there a way around it? (Note: I still have the original 100GB >> disk intact. If need be, I can run through this tedious process >> again. I don't care a whole lot about saving the existing restore >> points, but would certainly like Windows Vista to be able to create >> system restore points in the future. (It does this as matter of course >> when installing Windows Updates, so I think that is critical.) >> 3) Are there other things that are likely not to work with Windows Vista >> when one clones a drive. (E.g., some brain-dead copy protection schemes, >> etc. Fortunately, I don't use MS Office, 'cuz I'd bet that might be >> one possibility.) Obviously I don't have time to test all the installed >> software, so am looking to the community to see what I should be on the >> lookout for. >> >> >>From what you mentioned, you used "device-device" clone option. In this > mode, IIRC, partimage is used to clone the file system. I think maybe > you can use "device-image" option to save an image first, then restore > the image to target disk. Since in "device-image" mode, ntfsclone is > used to save and restore image for NTFS file system, maybe this will be > better. > By doing this, we will see if the problem is due to partimage or not, so > please tell us your results. > BTW, in the future, we will switch to partclone to do device to device > clone, and I think it will be better. I found suggestion at support.microsoft.com to address this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940970 As I really don't care if previous restore points are recovered or not, I think I will try this before trying Steve's suggestion or trying to use 'ntfsclone' as I discussed in my previous post today. I'll let this group know if it works or not. -kevin |
From: Kevin W. W. <kev...@gm...> - 2009-01-02 16:35:51
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Steven Shiau wrote: > Kevin W. Wall wrote: >> <deleted...> >>From what you mentioned, you used "device-device" clone option. In this > mode, IIRC, partimage is used to clone the file system. I think maybe > you can use "device-image" option to save an image first, then restore > the image to target disk. Since in "device-image" mode, ntfsclone is > used to save and restore image for NTFS file system, maybe this will be > better. > By doing this, we will see if the problem is due to partimage or not, so > please tell us your results. > BTW, in the future, we will switch to partclone to do device to device > clone, and I think it will be better. Steven, You're right... I picked device-device originally. Instead of using Clonezilla Live to (redo) this via it's "device-image" option, could I just drop into expert (i.e., shell) mode and us something like this: # mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 # Mount intermediate target (ext disk) # ntfsclone --save-image --output - /dev/hda1 | gzip -c >/media/sdb1/hda1.img.gz # ntfsclone --save-image --output - /dev/hda2 | gzip -c >/media/sdb1/hda2.img.gz # shutdown -h now Replace 100GB drive with 250GB drive and reassemble laptop. Boot up OpenSuSE 11.0 or Fedora 9 and restore Windows partitions. (I have ntfsprogs RPM is installed on both.) Restore via: # mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 # Mount intermediate source (ext disk) # gunzip -c /media/sda1/hda1.img.gz | ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/hda1 - # gunzip -c /media/sda1/hda2.img.gz | ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/hda2 - I know this seems like more work, but at least this way I don't risk overwriting my new Linux partitions on the new 250GB drive, nor have to worry about messing up the partition table or overwriting Grub on the master boot record. If advisable, I could also save the images using the '-rescue' flag on ntfsclone and use ntfstruncate to reset the bad sector list (as per http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone) on the new hard drive. However, I really am not aware of any bad sectors on the older 100GB hard drive. It's not that I don't trust Clonezilla to do this right, but rather that I don't trust my ability to not mess up because I misinterpreted one of Clonezilla's prompts. Also, I *am* a dinosaur and am more comfortable with taking actions that I can see rather than having to trust that I chose the right menu option and then trust what is going on under the hood. Of course, if I can just figure out a way to tell Windows Vista to forget about any *existing* system restore points (I have ~14GB worth!) and just to discard all that and start saving them anew from now on, I'd be happy to live with that too. But so far, haven't found a solution to that, but maybe I'm just not googling for the correct terms. Even if Windows can't see the C:\System Volume Information\ folder for some reason, I trust the Linux NTFS code enough to be able to properly delete that folder and recover the 14GB or so on the free list. I've seen a few Windows forums suggest re-installing System Restore when the restore points can't be read, but I need to read about that further before trying it. Thanks in advance, -kevin |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2009-01-01 06:37:33
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Kvein, Kevin W. Wall wrote: > Apologies if this is on the Clonezilla FAQ, but I didn't see it there > and I am too annoyed (at Windoze) to weed through the thousands of Google > results on terms "clonezilla", "restore point", "vista", and "problem". > > This past weekend I used Clonezilla Live (version 1.2.0-25) to clone 2 > partitions from my 100GB SATA drive in my Vista laptop. I saved to an external > USB hard drive. I then replaced the hard drive with a new internal 250GB SATA > hard drive. > > I make sure that the partition tables were the same for the first two > partitions. I let Clonezilla-Live handle this and then later I confirmed > with sfdisk before creating logical partitions on a new extended partition > where I allocated the additional 150GB and later used gparted to divvy that > up into additional partitions to install Fedora 9 and OpenSuSE 11. > > I had the usual problem with booting up Windows Vista, but results that by > having Grub handle boot-up process, chaining to Vista. That still failed until > I ran some sort of "rescue" operation from the alternate Windows partition (what > Vista referred to as the 'D:' drive, which was placed there by the notebook's > OEM). > > So, Windows and both Linux versions have been up and running and for the most > part, I am happy. (When I eventually completely break free of Windows, I'll be > even happier, but for now, that's not an option. Sigh. But I digress.) > > Anyhow, all was good until today when I wanted to create a "system restore > point" in Vista. That runs the rstrui.exe utility. When I run that, I get > the error message: > There was an unexpected error: > > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. > (0x8007007B). > > System Restore will now close. > > If instead, I try to get to it from 'System Properties' > (SystemPropertiesProtection.exe), I get this error instead: > > There was an unexpected error in the property page: > Incompatible version of the serializing package. (0x80070724) > > Please close the property page and try again. > > (And under the 'Available Disks' in the 'System Properties' window, > it just says 'Searching...'; never anything else.) > > Now I know these files are there--I can see them under > "\System Volume Information\" when I mount that partition > while booted from another OS. > > So, here are my questions... > 1) Is this a known problem with Windows Vista (and XP??) ? I > thought perhaps they were doing something insane like *directly* > writing to physical disk blocks and going from one disk geometry > to another messed up those "restore point" calculations or something. > > 2) Is there a way around it? (Note: I still have the original 100GB > disk intact. If need be, I can run through this tedious process > again. I don't care a whole lot about saving the existing restore > points, but would certainly like Windows Vista to be able to create > system restore points in the future. (It does this as matter of course > when installing Windows Updates, so I think that is critical.) > 3) Are there other things that are likely not to work with Windows Vista > when one clones a drive. (E.g., some brain-dead copy protection schemes, > etc. Fortunately, I don't use MS Office, 'cuz I'd bet that might be > one possibility.) Obviously I don't have time to test all the installed > software, so am looking to the community to see what I should be on the > lookout for. > > >From what you mentioned, you used "device-device" clone option. In this mode, IIRC, partimage is used to clone the file system. I think maybe you can use "device-image" option to save an image first, then restore the image to target disk. Since in "device-image" mode, ntfsclone is used to save and restore image for NTFS file system, maybe this will be better. By doing this, we will see if the problem is due to partimage or not, so please tell us your results. BTW, in the future, we will switch to partclone to do device to device clone, and I think it will be better. Regards, Steven. > Thanks so much for your answers and a great product. Surely beats > doing this all manually with dd and gzip and you get much better > compression too. > > -kevin wall > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
From: Kevin W. W. <kev...@gm...> - 2008-12-31 04:39:41
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Apologies if this is on the Clonezilla FAQ, but I didn't see it there and I am too annoyed (at Windoze) to weed through the thousands of Google results on terms "clonezilla", "restore point", "vista", and "problem". This past weekend I used Clonezilla Live (version 1.2.0-25) to clone 2 partitions from my 100GB SATA drive in my Vista laptop. I saved to an external USB hard drive. I then replaced the hard drive with a new internal 250GB SATA hard drive. I make sure that the partition tables were the same for the first two partitions. I let Clonezilla-Live handle this and then later I confirmed with sfdisk before creating logical partitions on a new extended partition where I allocated the additional 150GB and later used gparted to divvy that up into additional partitions to install Fedora 9 and OpenSuSE 11. I had the usual problem with booting up Windows Vista, but results that by having Grub handle boot-up process, chaining to Vista. That still failed until I ran some sort of "rescue" operation from the alternate Windows partition (what Vista referred to as the 'D:' drive, which was placed there by the notebook's OEM). So, Windows and both Linux versions have been up and running and for the most part, I am happy. (When I eventually completely break free of Windows, I'll be even happier, but for now, that's not an option. Sigh. But I digress.) Anyhow, all was good until today when I wanted to create a "system restore point" in Vista. That runs the rstrui.exe utility. When I run that, I get the error message: There was an unexpected error: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (0x8007007B). System Restore will now close. If instead, I try to get to it from 'System Properties' (SystemPropertiesProtection.exe), I get this error instead: There was an unexpected error in the property page: Incompatible version of the serializing package. (0x80070724) Please close the property page and try again. (And under the 'Available Disks' in the 'System Properties' window, it just says 'Searching...'; never anything else.) Now I know these files are there--I can see them under "\System Volume Information\" when I mount that partition while booted from another OS. So, here are my questions... 1) Is this a known problem with Windows Vista (and XP??) ? I thought perhaps they were doing something insane like *directly* writing to physical disk blocks and going from one disk geometry to another messed up those "restore point" calculations or something. 2) Is there a way around it? (Note: I still have the original 100GB disk intact. If need be, I can run through this tedious process again. I don't care a whole lot about saving the existing restore points, but would certainly like Windows Vista to be able to create system restore points in the future. (It does this as matter of course when installing Windows Updates, so I think that is critical.) 3) Are there other things that are likely not to work with Windows Vista when one clones a drive. (E.g., some brain-dead copy protection schemes, etc. Fortunately, I don't use MS Office, 'cuz I'd bet that might be one possibility.) Obviously I don't have time to test all the installed software, so am looking to the community to see what I should be on the lookout for. Thanks so much for your answers and a great product. Surely beats doing this all manually with dd and gzip and you get much better compression too. -kevin wall |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2008-12-12 23:49:47
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Cris, Cool! Steven. Cris wrote: > Thanks, I finally got it to work. After I got past the error I > mentioned before, I had problems trying to get the package I wanted > built into the customized image. The problem was that it wasn't in > the main lenny distribution, it was in non-free. Even though I had > added the non-free option in the apt sources.list, it wasn't finding > it. I had to enable the non-free repository with a -c 'non-free main' > flag added onto the create-debian-live command. I also added the > firmware-bnx2 package to the PKG_FROM_DBN_WHICH_OCS_LIVE_NEED variable > in the /opt/drbl/conf/drbl.conf file just for good measure. > > Thanks again for your help > > Cris Anderson -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
From: Cris <and...@gm...> - 2008-12-12 19:35:31
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> No, this is nothing to do with your LVM. I think it's something about > the repository with pigz. > We prompted some of the testing and unstable programs into stable > branch, so maybe you can give it a try with your command: > create-debian-live -d lenny -b testing -i customized -a firmware-bnx2 > or > create-debian-live -d lenny -b stable -i customized -a firmware-bnx2 > > Please let us know your results. > > Regards, > Steven. > > Cris > > > Thanks, I finally got it to work. After I got past the error I mentioned before, I had problems trying to get the package I wanted built into the customized image. The problem was that it wasn't in the main lenny distribution, it was in non-free. Even though I had added the non-free option in the apt sources.list, it wasn't finding it. I had to enable the non-free repository with a -c 'non-free main' flag added onto the create-debian-live command. I also added the firmware-bnx2 package to the PKG_FROM_DBN_WHICH_OCS_LIVE_NEED variable in the /opt/drbl/conf/drbl.conf file just for good measure. Thanks again for your help Cris Anderson |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2008-12-09 01:52:17
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This release is a bugs-fixed version with some minor updates. - Based on Debian Lenny repository on Dec/08/2008. Newer kernel 2.6.26-11 is used. - Some typos in en_US were fixed. Thanks to Jason <kindofabuzz _at_ gmail com> and John Clegg. - hexedit and cryptsetup were added in Clonezilla live. Thanks to Orgad Shaneh for this idea. - Serial no of disk is shown when saving parts. Thanks to Eric Lu. - Now we can use custom-ocs with an image included in ocs-iso and ocs-live-dev. Thanks to Orgad Shaneh for this idea. - Clonezilla now will honor the boot parameter ocs_pre_run, and it will be run during booting. - "-b" option was added to restoring mode in Clonezilla. Thanks to Jean-Francois Nifenecker - New gpxe 0.9.6. - Bug fixed: locales list in ocs-live-hook.conf without comma. Thanks to Orgad Shaneh. - Bug fixed: When creating recovery iso/zip with "ocs-sr -x", the reboot/shudown/none option was asked twice. Thanks to Jean-Francois Nifenecker. Enjoy! -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2008-12-06 01:58:32
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Cris wrote: > Cris, > > Please show us the exact commands you ran so that it's easier for > us to > see why. > > Steven. > > > > I have been booting into the clonezilla live cd, selecting English as > the language, choosing not to touch the keypad, selecting Start > Clonezilla, going into device-image mode, and choosing local_dev to > mount to /home/partimag/. This at this point, I have only followed the > instructions on the clonezilla website. However, my LVM partition is > not detected. After going through a few options, I enter the command > line mode, and I mount the LVM partition manually to /home/partimag/ > and cd into that directory. After that, I continue the instructions on > the FAQ, by becoming root, then running the ocs-live-netcfg command, > and doing apt-get update and apt-get cdebootstrap live-helper. These > processes run through fine. > > To create my own custom live-cd I run this command: > > create-debian-live -d lenny -b testing -i customized -a firmware-bnx2 > > Then it gives the error output I included in the last email, which was: > > Note, selecting man-db instead of man > E: Couldn't find package pigz > mv: cannot stat `debian-live/binary.iso': No such file or directory > > Any ideas? I am thinking it may have something to do with my LVM > partition. > No, this is nothing to do with your LVM. I think it's something about the repository with pigz. We prompted some of the testing and unstable programs into stable branch, so maybe you can give it a try with your command: create-debian-live -d lenny -b testing -i customized -a firmware-bnx2 or create-debian-live -d lenny -b stable -i customized -a firmware-bnx2 Please let us know your results. Regards, Steven. > Cris > > > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2008-12-02 11:57:03
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Oops... It's 4 sectors, not 4K. You can find the forum in http://clonezilla.org/forum/ Especially this one: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=5471665 Steven. Steve Poe wrote: > Okay. Where is the Clonezilla Live forum? > > On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Steven Shiau wrote: > > >> Another possibility is the "4K MBR" problem, and you can find some >> info >> in the Clonezilla live forum. >> We will include an option to restore 4K MBR in the future release. >> Please be patient. >> >> Steven. >> >> Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:44:24 -0800, Steve Poe >>> <ste...@gm...> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I've been using Clonezilla for a couple years, but this is the first >>>> time with ThinkPad laptops. I have >>>> a ThinkPad X200 Tablet running XP Pro. I am using Clonezilla >>>> 1.2.1-17. >>>> >>>> I backup the whole drive which is a 160GB drive with 150GB NTFS and >>>> 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. >>>> >>>> When I restore, The active drive is no longer the NTFS partition, >>>> but >>>> the 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. And, >>>> the partition type is changed from Compaq Diagnostics. to W95 LBA. >>>> >>>> I tried changing the active partition back to NTFS, but it does not >>>> work. The system boot to a black screen, >>>> no errors or messages. It's seems as if MBR is missing. >>>> >>>> I am confused why this happens. The cloning process works fine on a >>>> ThinkPad T61 and T41. >>>> >>>> I deselect the -g (auto) and select the (-t) option. I accept the >>>> the >>>> defaults for all other choices. >>>> >>>> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. >>>> >>>> >>> I have encountered some Thinkpads that have a BIOS security feature >>> enabled which hides partitions. Please ensure it is disabled... >>> >>> >> -- >> Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> >> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw >> Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A >> Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win >> great prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in >> the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Clonezilla-live mailing list >> Clo...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
From: Steve P. <ste...@gm...> - 2008-12-02 06:32:47
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Kristian, I will look for it. When reloaded the image today, it seemed to work but tried looking at the fdisk settings but could not see what the difference is. Thanks for your input. On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:44:24 -0800, Steve Poe <ste...@gm...> > wrote: >> I've been using Clonezilla for a couple years, but this is the first >> time with ThinkPad laptops. I have >> a ThinkPad X200 Tablet running XP Pro. I am using Clonezilla >> 1.2.1-17. >> >> I backup the whole drive which is a 160GB drive with 150GB NTFS and >> 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. >> >> When I restore, The active drive is no longer the NTFS partition, but >> the 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. And, >> the partition type is changed from Compaq Diagnostics. to W95 LBA. >> >> I tried changing the active partition back to NTFS, but it does not >> work. The system boot to a black screen, >> no errors or messages. It's seems as if MBR is missing. >> >> I am confused why this happens. The cloning process works fine on a >> ThinkPad T61 and T41. >> >> I deselect the -g (auto) and select the (-t) option. I accept the the >> defaults for all other choices. >> >> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. > > I have encountered some Thinkpads that have a BIOS security feature > enabled which hides partitions. Please ensure it is disabled... > -- > Kristian Erik Hermansen > Bertrand Russell - "I would never die for my beliefs because I > might be wrong." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live |
From: Steve P. <ste...@gm...> - 2008-12-02 06:29:22
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Okay. Where is the Clonezilla Live forum? On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Steven Shiau wrote: > Another possibility is the "4K MBR" problem, and you can find some > info > in the Clonezilla live forum. > We will include an option to restore 4K MBR in the future release. > Please be patient. > > Steven. > > Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:44:24 -0800, Steve Poe >> <ste...@gm...> wrote: >> >>> I've been using Clonezilla for a couple years, but this is the first >>> time with ThinkPad laptops. I have >>> a ThinkPad X200 Tablet running XP Pro. I am using Clonezilla >>> 1.2.1-17. >>> >>> I backup the whole drive which is a 160GB drive with 150GB NTFS and >>> 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. >>> >>> When I restore, The active drive is no longer the NTFS partition, >>> but >>> the 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. And, >>> the partition type is changed from Compaq Diagnostics. to W95 LBA. >>> >>> I tried changing the active partition back to NTFS, but it does not >>> work. The system boot to a black screen, >>> no errors or messages. It's seems as if MBR is missing. >>> >>> I am confused why this happens. The cloning process works fine on a >>> ThinkPad T61 and T41. >>> >>> I deselect the -g (auto) and select the (-t) option. I accept the >>> the >>> defaults for all other choices. >>> >>> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. >>> >> >> I have encountered some Thinkpads that have a BIOS security feature >> enabled which hides partitions. Please ensure it is disabled... >> > > > -- > Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> > National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw > Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A > Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2008-12-02 00:29:00
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Cris, Please show us the exact commands you ran so that it's easier for us to see why. Steven. Cris wrote: > Hello, I am working on adding the firmware-bnx2 package to a custom > Clonezilla live cd, but I am getting errors when I try to use the > create-debian-live script. After running for a while, it runs into an > error that states: > > Note, selecting man-db instead of man > E: Couldn't find package pigz > mv: cannot stat `debian-live/binary.iso': No such file or directory > > Any ideas on why this is happening? I am following the instructions > for building a custom live cd that are in the FAQ. I am doing this > from the actual Clonezilla live cd, booted on a 32 bit Intel, and I am > mounting a lvm created in Fedora to /home/partimag in order to create > the customized .iso. Could this be why? > > Cris Anderson > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2008-12-02 00:23:25
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Another possibility is the "4K MBR" problem, and you can find some info in the Clonezilla live forum. We will include an option to restore 4K MBR in the future release. Please be patient. Steven. Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:44:24 -0800, Steve Poe <ste...@gm...> wrote: > >> I've been using Clonezilla for a couple years, but this is the first >> time with ThinkPad laptops. I have >> a ThinkPad X200 Tablet running XP Pro. I am using Clonezilla 1.2.1-17. >> >> I backup the whole drive which is a 160GB drive with 150GB NTFS and >> 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. >> >> When I restore, The active drive is no longer the NTFS partition, but >> the 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. And, >> the partition type is changed from Compaq Diagnostics. to W95 LBA. >> >> I tried changing the active partition back to NTFS, but it does not >> work. The system boot to a black screen, >> no errors or messages. It's seems as if MBR is missing. >> >> I am confused why this happens. The cloning process works fine on a >> ThinkPad T61 and T41. >> >> I deselect the -g (auto) and select the (-t) option. I accept the the >> defaults for all other choices. >> >> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. >> > > I have encountered some Thinkpads that have a BIOS security feature > enabled which hides partitions. Please ensure it is disabled... > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
From: Kristian E. H. <kri...@gm...> - 2008-12-01 17:08:40
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:44:24 -0800, Steve Poe <ste...@gm...> wrote: > I've been using Clonezilla for a couple years, but this is the first > time with ThinkPad laptops. I have > a ThinkPad X200 Tablet running XP Pro. I am using Clonezilla 1.2.1-17. > > I backup the whole drive which is a 160GB drive with 150GB NTFS and > 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. > > When I restore, The active drive is no longer the NTFS partition, but > the 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. And, > the partition type is changed from Compaq Diagnostics. to W95 LBA. > > I tried changing the active partition back to NTFS, but it does not > work. The system boot to a black screen, > no errors or messages. It's seems as if MBR is missing. > > I am confused why this happens. The cloning process works fine on a > ThinkPad T61 and T41. > > I deselect the -g (auto) and select the (-t) option. I accept the the > defaults for all other choices. > > Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. I have encountered some Thinkpads that have a BIOS security feature enabled which hides partitions. Please ensure it is disabled... -- Kristian Erik Hermansen Bertrand Russell - "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." |
From: Cris <and...@gm...> - 2008-12-01 16:27:18
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Hello, I am working on adding the firmware-bnx2 package to a custom Clonezilla live cd, but I am getting errors when I try to use the create-debian-live script. After running for a while, it runs into an error that states: Note, selecting man-db instead of man E: Couldn't find package pigz mv: cannot stat `debian-live/binary.iso': No such file or directory Any ideas on why this is happening? I am following the instructions for building a custom live cd that are in the FAQ. I am doing this from the actual Clonezilla live cd, booted on a 32 bit Intel, and I am mounting a lvm created in Fedora to /home/partimag in order to create the customized .iso. Could this be why? Cris Anderson |
From: Steve P. <ste...@gm...> - 2008-12-01 04:44:34
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I've been using Clonezilla for a couple years, but this is the first time with ThinkPad laptops. I have a ThinkPad X200 Tablet running XP Pro. I am using Clonezilla 1.2.1-17. I backup the whole drive which is a 160GB drive with 150GB NTFS and 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. When I restore, The active drive is no longer the NTFS partition, but the 10GB Compaq Diagnostics. And, the partition type is changed from Compaq Diagnostics. to W95 LBA. I tried changing the active partition back to NTFS, but it does not work. The system boot to a black screen, no errors or messages. It's seems as if MBR is missing. I am confused why this happens. The cloning process works fine on a ThinkPad T61 and T41. I deselect the -g (auto) and select the (-t) option. I accept the the defaults for all other choices. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Steve |
From: Umarzuki M. <uma...@gm...> - 2008-11-21 00:00:45
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This bothers me since already imaged quite a lot of ntfs images into my 1 TB ext3 partition since I'm using CentOS as the backup server. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2008-11-19 00:10:15
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Sorry to hear that. Maybe the problem is in the boot loader, so maybe you can try to mount the restored partition to see if the data exist or not. Steven. Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Another thing (sorry i forgot) that there's a messge that says > "..maybe the kernel is too old" so I'm going to try if that is the > case by using experimental branch and hope for the best or else I'll > get my ass toasted. > > It's a live working machine and now it's not booting. I'm dead. > > 2008/11/18 Umarzuki Mochlis <uma...@gm... > <mailto:uma...@gm...>> > > ...and most of the options I used is defaults. I read that using > dd as an option should make i works but I already did dumping > partition table from sda-mbr file and it still won't restore and > says couldn't found the sda10 partition. > > 2008/11/17 Umarzuki Mochlis <uma...@gm... > <mailto:uma...@gm...>> > > I cloned a OpenBSD system with RAID 1. After making backup > image with clonezilla live 1.2.0-25 which was successful, I > tried to restore it via ssh. There a message that it couldn't > find/open something .sf (i don't quite remember). It hanged > there so I rebooted then tried it again but this time it says > it couldn't find sda10 and somehow the last failed attempt > corrupted the partition table or altered it since there's only > sda4. > > -- > Regards, > > Umarzuki Mochlis > http://gameornot.net > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Umarzuki Mochlis > http://gameornot.net > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Umarzuki Mochlis > http://gameornot.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
From: Umarzuki M. <uma...@gm...> - 2008-11-17 22:58:11
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Another thing (sorry i forgot) that there's a messge that says "..maybe the kernel is too old" so I'm going to try if that is the case by using experimental branch and hope for the best or else I'll get my ass toasted. It's a live working machine and now it's not booting. I'm dead. 2008/11/18 Umarzuki Mochlis <uma...@gm...> > ...and most of the options I used is defaults. I read that using dd as an > option should make i works but I already did dumping partition table from > sda-mbr file and it still won't restore and says couldn't found the sda10 > partition. > > 2008/11/17 Umarzuki Mochlis <uma...@gm...> > > I cloned a OpenBSD system with RAID 1. After making backup image with >> clonezilla live 1.2.0-25 which was successful, I tried to restore it via >> ssh. There a message that it couldn't find/open something .sf (i don't quite >> remember). It hanged there so I rebooted then tried it again but this time >> it says it couldn't find sda10 and somehow the last failed attempt corrupted >> the partition table or altered it since there's only sda4. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Umarzuki Mochlis >> http://gameornot.net >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Umarzuki Mochlis > http://gameornot.net > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net |
From: Umarzuki M. <uma...@gm...> - 2008-11-17 22:30:50
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...and most of the options I used is defaults. I read that using dd as an option should make i works but I already did dumping partition table from sda-mbr file and it still won't restore and says couldn't found the sda10 partition. 2008/11/17 Umarzuki Mochlis <uma...@gm...> > I cloned a OpenBSD system with RAID 1. After making backup image with > clonezilla live 1.2.0-25 which was successful, I tried to restore it via > ssh. There a message that it couldn't find/open something .sf (i don't quite > remember). It hanged there so I rebooted then tried it again but this time > it says it couldn't find sda10 and somehow the last failed attempt corrupted > the partition table or altered it since there's only sda4. > > -- > Regards, > > Umarzuki Mochlis > http://gameornot.net > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2008-11-17 03:47:50
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Maybe you can try to modify /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-onthefly, and append --force --ignore-bitmap-check in the ntfsclone command, e.g. ntfsclone --save-image --output --force --ignore-bitmap-check... Remember to backup important data on the target machine before you clone it. Please report your results if you make it so that we can add an option to do so in the future release. Regards, Steven. Carl Karsten wrote: > I have an ide drive with some bad sectors. I am trying to clone what I can to > a new drive. > > i used ntfsclone, i got 51.23% done, and didn't go any furthor. dmesg showed a > bunch of IO errors - I could see that it had trouble reading sectors 10001, > 10002.... 1000400. (or whatever the numbers really were.) after about 5 > minutes on 1000400, I ran top, say ntfsclone using 99% of my p4-3ghz cpu. so I > gave up. I hit ^C and ntfs exited. > > What I am hoping to do is copy from 100% down to 52% or whatever it can. > > Or if you think one of the other clone options will get past 1000400, I'll try > that too. > > Also, when I try to mount the new drive/partition that got 51.23%, dmesg says: > > [ 785.349088] NTFS driver 2.1.29 [Flags: R/O MODULE]. > [ 785.369140] NTFS volume version 3.0. > [ 785.380290] NTFS-fs error (device sda2): ntfs_external_attr_find(): Base > inode 0x9 contains corrupt attribute list attribute. Unmount and run chkdsk. > [ 785.540496] NTFS-fs error (device sda2): ntfs_read_locked_inode(): Failed to > lookup $DATA attribute. > [ 785.649718] NTFS-fs error (device sda2): ntfs_read_locked_inode(): Failed > with error code -5. Marking corrupt inode 0x9 as bad. Run chkdsk. > [ 785.801586] NTFS-fs error (device sda2): load_system_files(): Failed to load > $Secure. > [ 785.895267] NTFS-fs error (device sda2): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load > system files. > > Any info... > > Carl K > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
From: Robert R. <rob...@ya...> - 2008-11-13 21:00:33
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Hello all, I have made an image with clonezilla. I manage to put the image back to another computer. But at a certain computer I fail and I get the problem "gpt_read() failed". Has anyone ever seen this problem. If yes how can I solve this problem. Thanks in advance. |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2008-11-13 02:57:37
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Clonezila live 1.2.1-17 (stable) released. <https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=886991> This release is based on Debian Lenny with Kernel 2.6.26-8. A Simplified Chinese interface was added. An option to reboot or shutdown after clone is finished was added. Hardware and software info will be saved in a clonezilla image. An option to generate MD5 or SHA1 checksums after an image was saved was added. Running on serial console ttyS0 is supported. Some more info will be saved in image dir. Some bugs were fixed. -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
From: Carl K. <ca...@pe...> - 2008-11-12 21:37:56
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I have an ide drive with some bad sectors. I am trying to clone what I can to a new drive. i used ntfsclone, i got 51.23% done, and didn't go any furthor. dmesg showed a bunch of IO errors - I could see that it had trouble reading sectors 10001, 10002.... 1000400. (or whatever the numbers really were.) after about 5 minutes on 1000400, I ran top, say ntfsclone using 99% of my p4-3ghz cpu. so I gave up. I hit ^C and ntfs exited. What I am hoping to do is copy from 100% down to 52% or whatever it can. Or if you think one of the other clone options will get past 1000400, I'll try that too. Also, when I try to mount the new drive/partition that got 51.23%, dmesg says: [ 785.349088] NTFS driver 2.1.29 [Flags: R/O MODULE]. [ 785.369140] NTFS volume version 3.0. [ 785.380290] NTFS-fs error (device sda2): ntfs_external_attr_find(): Base inode 0x9 contains corrupt attribute list attribute. Unmount and run chkdsk. [ 785.540496] NTFS-fs error (device sda2): ntfs_read_locked_inode(): Failed to lookup $DATA attribute. [ 785.649718] NTFS-fs error (device sda2): ntfs_read_locked_inode(): Failed with error code -5. Marking corrupt inode 0x9 as bad. Run chkdsk. [ 785.801586] NTFS-fs error (device sda2): load_system_files(): Failed to load $Secure. [ 785.895267] NTFS-fs error (device sda2): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load system files. Any info... Carl K |