How can I force Clonezilla to see my USB hard drive?

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How can I force Clonezilla to see my USB hard drive?

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: Phil Olenick

Created: 2017-12-05

Updated: 2018-01-03

Phil Olenick - 2017-12-05

Yesterday, I successfully used Clonezilla Live 2.5.2.31 i686 PAE on my old Dell Lattitude Win 7 laptop to save an image of the internal drive in a folder on my USB 3.0 Buffalo Drivestation, prior to updating to Win 10. (PAE is enabled on all 3 of my machines, and they're all BIOS-based.)

Today, I tried to do the same on my newer Inspiron desktop, but the same Clonezilla CD couldn't see its USB 3.0 Lacie drive. I made sure the drive was lit up before Clonezilla looked for drives, I tried turning it off and on right before that point, and I even tried disconnecting and reconnecting the drive at that point. Nada.

I'm running in Beginner Mode. Is there some other way to make it see the drive?

Last edit: Phil Olenick 2017-12-05

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Steven Shiau - 2018-01-03

Normally this is related to Linux kernel. It does not support your hardware. Please give Clonezilla live 2.5.5-19 or 20180102-* a try?
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php

They come with newer Linux kernel so the results might be different.

Steven

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