I have a few problems after cloning an NTFS partition that contained errors (Clonezilla recommended me to run windows chkdsk.exe, but i did this bevore various times and it didn't fix the problem, so I ignored this advice).
The Problems are: 1. I restored an 8GB partition into a 10GB partition. Restoration worked, however the expansion from 8GB to 10GB failed due to the errors on the partition (the responsible program gave my an errormessage about that, which I unfortunately can't remember). How can I expand the partition now? 2. When I restored the partition from the old (defective) drive - did clonezilla also clone information about bad sectors? Since the new drive (which I assumed to be error free) has now many reallocated sectors.
Thanks in advance for your help
Ede
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For your questions,
(1) You can try to use gparted (http://gparted.sf.net) to resize your partition. A live version of GParted is available on that site.
(2) Try to enter expert mode, and check "-rescue" option. Then partclone will try to continue to image when there are bad sectors.
Steven.
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I used Clonezilla Live last month when I had to replace my laptop's hard drive (running XP Pro) that had sector errors on it.
The -rescue option copied everything great - including the OS file that kept a record of the bad sectors. (Checkdisk identifies and marks bad sectors, but it doesn't seem to identify and unmark good sectors that have already been marked as bad.)
Use ntfstruncate on the System Rescue CD to resolve this. http://linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone - See the bottom section, "Reseting the bad sectors list after cloning"
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Hi all,
I have a few problems after cloning an NTFS partition that contained errors (Clonezilla recommended me to run windows chkdsk.exe, but i did this bevore various times and it didn't fix the problem, so I ignored this advice).
The Problems are:
1. I restored an 8GB partition into a 10GB partition. Restoration worked, however the expansion from 8GB to 10GB failed due to the errors on the partition (the responsible program gave my an errormessage about that, which I unfortunately can't remember). How can I expand the partition now?
2. When I restored the partition from the old (defective) drive - did clonezilla also clone information about bad sectors? Since the new drive (which I assumed to be error free) has now many reallocated sectors.
Thanks in advance for your help
Ede
For your questions,
(1) You can try to use gparted (http://gparted.sf.net) to resize your partition. A live version of GParted is available on that site.
(2) Try to enter expert mode, and check "-rescue" option. Then partclone will try to continue to image when there are bad sectors.
Steven.
I used Clonezilla Live last month when I had to replace my laptop's hard drive (running XP Pro) that had sector errors on it.
The -rescue option copied everything great - including the OS file that kept a record of the bad sectors. (Checkdisk identifies and marks bad sectors, but it doesn't seem to identify and unmark good sectors that have already been marked as bad.)
Use ntfstruncate on the System Rescue CD to resolve this.
http://linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone - See the bottom section, "Reseting the bad sectors list after cloning"
Thank you for your answers. I've solved my problem now.
To sum up:
1. was solved with ntfsresize included in Clonezilla Live. You have to use the -b switch for bad sectors.
2. was solved with ntfstruncate included in the System Rescue CD and the tutorial seoul2 linked to (http://linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone#reseting_the_bad_sectors_list_after_cloning)
ede123, a quick question:
Are you saying you had to use both 1 & 2, or are you saying only 1 or only 2 would have solved your problem? Thanks.