Clonezilla Live 20151012-wily-amd64 failed to create partition table
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Laptop hdd failed, but made a disk image on external disk using Clonezilla Live 20151012-wily-amd64. New hdd is same size. Confirmed motherboard/controller is fine with installation of Ubuntu from USB onto new hdd. Restoring image fails with two sets of error message depending on options used in Expert, default restore also fails. Options#1 -e2 -c -r -e FAIL with Failed to create a partition table on this disk. Is this disk too small? NO.
Laptop config is UEFI with dual boot Win7 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS using GPT. Next set of options#2 -g -e1 -e2 -c -r -icrc -j2 -k1 FAIL with unable to find target partition sdc1. Options#3 -k1 -icrc -c also result in this error.
ShiftPageUp shows a few error messages: unrecognised disk label, running sfdisk, close device failed Input/Output error.
The external disk was a few sectors smaller than original hdd, so partitions were cut down to fit, then disk image made using Clonezilla. So, current disk image is smaller than new hdd. 5 Partitions, 1,2,3,4,6. Image saved with sda, but new hdd is seen as sdc. Temp image is created but still fails as stated above.
Any ideas on how to restore disk image to new hdd? Thanks.
SOLUTION, exact unknown.
A few things were modified, but I am not sure which is responsible for the successful restoration of the disk image.
new hdd state was changed from "fresh out of the box" to having an OS, Ubuntu, installed. This installation forced the partition naming from sdc to sda. The disk image was created with the old hdd having the same partition identification as sda. During the restoration, a temp image was not created since the new hdd was newly identified as sda. The successful set of options selected in the Expert were -g -e2 -c -j2.
So, parhaps new hdd can not be "fresh out of box"; it needs an install or perhaps a forcing of the name of the partition to match old hdd used to create image. Temp image was not created because new hdd had same partition id as hdd used to create disk image, sda. Perhaps a temp image is what lead to a failed restoration. A new set of options were selected. One of these fixes or a combination of them lead to a successful disk image restoration.
Did you try newer Clonezilla live? Like Clonezilla live 20161121-yakkety?
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Same issue?
Steven