Re: [Partclone-user] restore failure with NTFS

[Andreas W. <and...@gm...>]

Hi,

On 01.07.2009 19:30, thomas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Could you try ntfs-3g which work well for me.
> like:
> ntfs-3g -o loop sda1 /mnt

Indeed, it works perfectly fine with ntfs-3g. Thank you a lot for the hint!

Bye,
Andreas


> decompress image and pipe to partclone...
> gunzip -d sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz -c| partclone.ntfs -r -s - -O sda1 -C
> ...
> Cloned successfully.
> 
> mount fail...
> root@T-laptop:/home/partimag/xp-c-img# mount -o loop sda1 /mnt/
> Failed to read last sector (4096511):
> HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
>    or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
>    or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
>    or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
>    or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
> Failed to mount '/dev/loop0':
> The device '/dev/loop0' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
> Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
> partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
> 
> but ntfs-3g is great!
> root@T-laptop:/home/partimag/xp-c-img# ntfs-3g -o loop sda1 /mnt/
> root@T-laptop:/home/partimag/xp-c-img# cd /mnt/
> root@T-laptop:/mnt# ls
> AUTOEXEC.BAT  Documents and Settings  ntldr                      WINDOWS
> bootfont.bin  IO.SYS                  Program Files
> boot.ini      MSDOS.SYS               sanbootconf-latest
> CONFIG.SYS    NTDETECT.COM            System Volume Information
> 
> 
> Thomas.
> 
> Andreas Winkelbauer Ð0:
>> Hi,
> 
>> I used clonezilla-live-1.2.2-14 (which uses partclone.ntfs v0.1.0,
>> Rev:243:245M) to backup the disk of my notebook. I used the default
>> settings, except for the compression (I disabled compression).
> 
>> My system is dual boot Linux and Windows XP.
> 
>> When I tried to restore the image to a file, using partclone v0.1.0
>> (Rev:217M), I was unable to mount it.
> 
>> This is what I tried:
> 
>> $ touch sda1.img
>> $ partclone.restore -C -s sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.uncomp -o sda1.img
>> # mount -t ntfs -o loop,nosuid,nodev sda1.img /mnt/test
> 
>> yielding the following error:
> 
>> Failed to read last sector (204812608): Invalid argument
>> HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
>>    or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
>>    or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
>>    or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
>>    or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
>> Failed to mount '/dev/loop1': Invalid argument
>> The device '/dev/loop1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
>> Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
>> partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
> 
>> I have attached more, hopefully relevant, information.
> 
>> Any hints?
> 
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas