I'm a new Clonezilla user. I love the product but have run into a problem. Given that I'm just learning, it's more than likely something I've done wrong. I have a PC running Windows XP. I connected an external disk(USB) and ran Clonezilla to create and save an image of my C drive on the USB drive. When I try to do the restore later, I get to the point where it asks to mount the partition that has the image file. Once I've selected it, I get a message that tells me that the partition is busy or corrupted. It also tells me that the problem was likely caused by an incorrect dismount of the USB drive when I created the partition under Windows. It gave me the option to force the mount anyway, which I did. The restore completed, but when I try to reboot the PC from that restore partition, it fails with a message about a corrupted disk. Clonezilla seems to think that I dismounted the USB drive incorrectly at some point which would account for the courrupted file system on the USB drive. That is not true, I did a clean shutdown after removing cleanly removing the USB drive from Windows. I even went through the entire process a second time just to make sure. What am I doing wrong?
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I'm a new Clonezilla user. I love the product but have run into a problem. Given that I'm just learning, it's more than likely something I've done wrong. I have a PC running Windows XP. I connected an external disk(USB) and ran Clonezilla to create and save an image of my C drive on the USB drive. When I try to do the restore later, I get to the point where it asks to mount the partition that has the image file. Once I've selected it, I get a message that tells me that the partition is busy or corrupted. It also tells me that the problem was likely caused by an incorrect dismount of the USB drive when I created the partition under Windows. It gave me the option to force the mount anyway, which I did. The restore completed, but when I try to reboot the PC from that restore partition, it fails with a message about a corrupted disk. Clonezilla seems to think that I dismounted the USB drive incorrectly at some point which would account for the courrupted file system on the USB drive. That is not true, I did a clean shutdown after removing cleanly removing the USB drive from Windows. I even went through the entire process a second time just to make sure. What am I doing wrong?
Rodney,
Could you please run "chkdsk /f E:" (replace E: with yours) on windows to force to check the file system.
Steven.