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Restoring HD with more volumes than partitions failed!

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Gianni
2018-09-05
2018-09-29

  • Gianni

    Gianni - 2018-09-05

    I am trying to restore an image of 1TB HD coming from an HP workstation on a new disk WITHOUT success.

    Image was saved with latest Clonezilla alternative as found into infopackages.txt file.

    • ========== *
      Image was saved by these Clonezilla-related packages:
      drbl-2.25.10-drbl1 clonezilla-3.27.20-drbl1 partclone-0.2.91-drbl1 drbl-chntpw-20110511-1drbl util-linux-2.29-1ubuntu2.1 gdisk-1.0.1-1build1
      Saved by clonezilla-live-20170905-zesty-amd64.
    • ========== *
      but restoring it FAILS!

    Errors are:
    Partition 1 (sdX1): Target partition size (2 MB) is smaller than source (1075 MB). Use option -c to disable size checking.
    Partition 2 (sdX2): Target partition size (1075 MB) is smaller than source (754833 MB). Use option -c to disable size checking.
    Partition 5 (sdX5): Unable to find target partition sdX5

    I have tried either to restore:

    • using original PCs or a secondary one
    • on a second 1TB HD or on a larger 1.5TB HD

    I ABSOLUTELY need to find a solution because more identical PCs (10) were bought together and at this point in time ALL their images are NOT restorable!

    The original HD is partitioned in MBR mode.
    I feel origin of these issues is original HD has 4 partitions and 5 volumes as here reported:
    PARTITIONS:
    ID Size Offset
    1 992Kb 31Kb
    2 1025Mb 1024Kb
    3 702Gb 1026Mb
    4 227Gb 703Gb
    VOLUMES:
    ID Let Label FS Type Dim State
    0 K Dati intern NTFS Simple 151Gb
    1 E HP_TOOLS FAT32 Simple 100Mb
    2 D HP_RECOVERY NTFS Simple 11Gb
    3 C NTFS Simple 702Gb Bootable
    4 SYSTEM NTFS Simple 1025Mb
    5 F DVD-ROM 0b NoMedia

    and clonezilla get somehow confused. Partitions are created correctly on the destination HD while volumes restore does NOT work!

    These are files available into image directory:
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 1083 ago 31 02:24 blkdev.list
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 590 ago 31 02:24 blkid.list
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 204 ago 31 03:37 dev-fs.list
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4 ago 31 03:37 disk
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 16772 ago 31 03:37 Info-dmi.txt
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 21513 ago 31 03:37 Info-lshw.txt
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 1999 ago 31 03:37 Info-lspci.txt
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 243 ago 31 03:37 Info-packages.txt
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 25 ago 31 03:37 parts
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 33 ago 31 02:24 sda1.info
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 361270528 ago 31 02:24 sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:25 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:27 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ab
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:28 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ac
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:30 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ad
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:31 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ae
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:33 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.af
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:34 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ag
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:36 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ah
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:37 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ai
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:39 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aj
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:40 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ak
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:42 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.al
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:43 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.am
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:45 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.an
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:46 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ao
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:48 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ap
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:49 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aq
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    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:57 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.av
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 02:58 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aw
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 1203093123 ago 31 02:59 sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ax
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:00 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:02 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ab
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:03 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ac
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:05 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ad
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:06 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ae
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:08 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.af
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:09 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ag
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:11 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ah
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:12 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ai
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:14 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aj
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:15 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ak
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:17 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.al
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:18 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.am
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:20 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.an
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:21 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ao
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:23 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ap
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:24 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aq
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:26 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ar
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:27 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.as
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:28 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.at
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:30 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.au
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:31 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.av
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 3034471061 ago 31 03:33 sda3.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aw
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:34 sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 4096000000 ago 31 03:36 sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ab
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 2502352012 ago 31 03:37 sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ac
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 20248951 ago 31 03:37 sda5.vfat-ptcl-img.gz.aa
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 38 ago 31 02:24 sda-chs.sf
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 31744 ago 31 02:24 sda-hidden-data-after-mbr
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 512 ago 31 02:24 sda-mbr
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 469 ago 31 02:24 sda-pt.parted
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 389 ago 31 02:24 sda-pt.parted.compact
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 gianni gianni 310 ago 31 02:24 sda-pt.sf

    What can I do to restore this image successfully?

    Thanks in advance,
    Gianni

    P.S. Sorry for reporting PARTITIONS and VOLUMES in such manual way!

     

    Last edit: Gianni 2018-09-05

  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2018-09-29

    "Partition 1 (sdX1): Target partition size (2 MB) is smaller than source (1075 MB). Use option -c to disable size checking.
    Partition 2 (sdX2): Target partition size (1075 MB) is smaller than source (754833 MB). Use option -c to disable size checking.
    Partition 5 (sdX5): Unable to find target partition sdX5" -> How did you restore the image? It seems you did not let Clonezilla to create the partition table on the destination disk? If so, Clonezilla will use the existing partitions on the destination disk, then that's why the sizes are different from the source one.

    Steven

     

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