How to merge 2 disk images (with 7 partitions) to a new, larger SSD?
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In the attachment, you can see I have 2 physical disks on my Windows 10 machine with 7 partitions among them. Disk 0 is a small SSD. I'm pretty sure my Disk 1 (HDD) is failing. My machine only has one M.2 slot, so I'm going to upgrade my small SSD to a 2 TB SSD and remove my HDD.
This is my first time using Clonezilla, but I was able to create an image for Disk 0 and another image for Disk 1. The question is, how do I restore these separate images to my new SSD?
Here's my guess:
1. Restore Disk 0 image to the new SSD using restoredisk.
2. Use Windows 10 Disk Management to create partitions for my E and F drives.
3. Restore the partitions in my Disk 1 image to existing partitions using restoreparts.
Does that work?
After more research, it's looking like you can't restore a single partition from a disk image. Unless someone knows a trick or some way to do a conversion, it looks like I need to create separate partition images for my E and F drives.
"you can't restore a single partition from a disk image." -> Yes, you can. Just choose "restoreparts" in the Clonezilla menu, and the image saved by "savedisk" can be used to restore to the partitions you choose.
Sometimes you need to change the device name, if so, check this:
https://drbl.org/management/techrpt.php?c=cnvt-ocs-dev&t=To%20change%20the%20device%20name%20in%20saved%20clonezilla%20image
Steven
Thanks for the response. Since I posted this, I tried a bunch of different iterations, and then I switched to Macrium to do the same operations, and every time, my machine wouldn't boot up from the new SSD, even though it booted up from the old SSD. Even a fresh Windows 10 install didn't boot properly. I know the files are properly writing to the new SSD, and chkdsk reports no problems, but it seems like the new SSD is defective somehow, so I'm going to try this again on a replacement SSD.