Clonezilla

Alan,

Once again, I am glad to say that I have achieved success in making a bootable Gparted disk. I searched in the Gparted forum posts and found that using a CD-RW disc instead of a CD-R disc may help, which is paradoxical given my experience with Clonezilla bootable CD.

Well, I tried using a CD-RW disc and it worked first time !! But I have to admit, I did need to restart my Windows XP computer in order to get My Computer to list out the contents of the CD-RW which had been burnt with the iso file.

I tried the bootable gparted disc on my Windows 98 computer. Although it recognized the slave drive partition, it did not recognize ANY of the partitions in my master drive. I wonder why.

This is the essential information it gave me when I clicked gparted > devices > dev hda model = a series of numbers size 31.49 GB Disk Label Type UNRECOGNIZED [ in fact the partition map had UNALLOCATED 31.49 GB written on it and no partitions at all shown. ] Values of heads, sectors etc all given

For dev hdb it gave me model Maxtor size 7.87 GB Disk Label Type MSDOS Values of heads, sectors etc all given

Years ago, I used PARTITION MAGIC 5 to create my Windows 98 partitions and Norton Ghost version 6.03 recognizes them well. I regularly have made Ghost image files of my master drive partitions for years now. And they dump well as well.

If you can explain possible reasons why Clonezilla and Gparted do not recognize my Windows FAT32 partitions, I would appreciate it. What is puzzling is that gparted recognizes my FAT32 Windows formatted slave drive but not the master drive partitions which are FAT32 Windows formatted as well. What is going on ?

My master drive partitions are each approximately 6 GB C partition has mainly Windows programs D partition is a swap partition of about 400 MB E partition contains my Internet Favorites F parition contains my non Windows programs G partition contains my Documents H partition is mostly empty

If I remember correctly, only C is a primary partition, the rest are logical partitions.

I thank you and Steven for your support.