My current situation is:
- A drive "N" of 2 TB, with one partition "C" with a bootable Windows 10 of
~250GB, the rest is free space.
- A drive "H" of 1 TB, with a partition "D" with various data.
I wish to clone the partition D to a new partition of the disk N that will
be the size of the free space (~1.750 TB).
I first tried to 1) create a new partition on the free space of the disk N,
2) run clonezilla in live usb, selecting expert mode, partition to
partition on local disks, leave everything by default. Data have been
correctly copied but boot some how have been broken so that my windows 10
of the partition C of disk N wont start. I managed to get back to my
current situation to retry.
I think something went wrong regarding MBR or boot sector but I'm not sure
what am i talking about :)
My questions are:
1) What type of partition have to be created on the free space ? May I use
the windows partition manager ?
2) What option should I select on colnezilla to not erase my boot sequence ?
As for your questions,
1. Yes, you can use Windows partition manager to create the partitions.
2. Normally it won't affect the source disk. Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Please show the complete command, as the green command here: https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/images/ocs-08-3-command-to-run.png
In addition, please show the partitions table layout on the source and destination disks
so that we can try to see if this issue can be reproduced.
Steven
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Here is my partition table with the Windows tool, I want the 'data' partition to be cloned to the unallocated space. Obviously when I first tried it I created an NTFS extended partition beforehand.
same with the command line tool :
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 D data NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy
Volume 1 G System Rese NTFS Partition 549 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 237 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 3 NTFS Partition 522 MB Healthy Hidden
I'll edit my post in a minute for the cloning command line
Hello,
My current situation is:
- A drive "N" of 2 TB, with one partition "C" with a bootable Windows 10 of
~250GB, the rest is free space.
- A drive "H" of 1 TB, with a partition "D" with various data.
I wish to clone the partition D to a new partition of the disk N that will
be the size of the free space (~1.750 TB).
I first tried to 1) create a new partition on the free space of the disk N,
2) run clonezilla in live usb, selecting expert mode, partition to
partition on local disks, leave everything by default. Data have been
correctly copied but boot some how have been broken so that my windows 10
of the partition C of disk N wont start. I managed to get back to my
current situation to retry.
I think something went wrong regarding MBR or boot sector but I'm not sure
what am i talking about :)
My questions are:
1) What type of partition have to be created on the free space ? May I use
the windows partition manager ?
2) What option should I select on colnezilla to not erase my boot sequence ?
Many thanks, the tool is really great BTW :)
As for your questions,
1. Yes, you can use Windows partition manager to create the partitions.
2. Normally it won't affect the source disk. Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Please show the complete command, as the green command here:
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/images/ocs-08-3-command-to-run.png
In addition, please show the partitions table layout on the source and destination disks
so that we can try to see if this issue can be reproduced.
Steven
I used 'clonezilla-live-2.8.1-12-amd64'.
Here is my partition table with the Windows tool, I want the 'data' partition to be cloned to the unallocated space. Obviously when I first tried it I created an NTFS extended partition beforehand.
same with the command line tool :
I'll edit my post in a minute for the cloning command line
Basically if you want to use the "part to local part" function in Clonezilla live, you have to create a same size of partition in the destination disk. With that, you can select the source and destination partitions when using "part to local part" function in the Clonezilla live menu:
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/images/ocs-06-disk-to-local-disk-clone.png
Steven