Windows 7 backup only C drive, how to make it restore bootable?
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I made a partition backup of my c drive and when i restored it to another drive to test the image, it was not set bootable. I did tell it to back up the extra area and thought that would do it, but after restoring it I had to run the windows repair to make it bootable. Is there some setting that I missed to get it to store the boot info or something? The reason why I need it to be able to do this is, I like to store all of my data on the D partition on the same drive so if the c drive gets corrupted, I can just start over and I won't lose all of my data i've been saving on D. I currently do it this way with the built in windows backup, but I do not like it's flexibility and have been looking for a different backup utility to take it's place. I like what I see out of clonezilla, but I can't believe there is no way to do what I was doing with the built in windows backup. Please help.
Last edit: Robert Keller 2014-09-08
If the boot loader already exists on the disk, it's OK you can just restore an image saved from the option "saveparts". Otherwise you have to use "restoredisk" to restore an image saved from the option "savedisk".
The limitation is, Clonezilla is run on GNU/Linux, and MS windows boot loader is a black box to Clonezilla, unless there is a good tool which could deal with the boot loader of MS Windows on GNU/Linux.
Steven.
Last edit: Steven Shiau 2014-09-19