I had windows 7 installed for a long time, decided it was time to do a reformat/reinstall. I made a clonezilla image of the harddrive (no compression), then reformatted/reinstalled. While setting it up, I noticed that I had (for some retarded reason) encrypted a large portion of my external harddrive (EFS), and I couldn't access it because I don't have the key files so I got virtualbox to try to put the image onto a virtual machine so I could login there and decrypt the stuff, but clonezilla fails with errors, something about it not being an image and "invalid magic".
I've checked the files, my sda2.ntfs-image.aa file is completely empty (zero bytes) and that's the one it fails on, but the others are 2gig files (about 300gig worth of them).
So to sum up, I'm looking to figure out if there's a way to either mount the image so I can try cloning the disk by copying the files over, or (preferably) using clonezilla to put the image back on the drive…If you need any more information please let me know and I'll get it ASAP…I would hate to lose 200GB of data because of a problem with the image.
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If the file system is encrypted, Clonezilla will have problem to deal with that.
Maybe you can use "dd" to save and restore that partition, while use "saveparts" and "restoreparts" options of Clonezilla live to deal with other partitions.
Steven.
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No, the filesystem wasn't encrypted, I'm sorry. The encrypted folder is on my external drive, and has no connection to my internal drive save for my key files that I need to get off of it.
I can't "save" anything, because I've already formatted the drive (believing that the clonezilla image would be a good backup). I also don't think I can restore the image using dd, because it is in the form sdax.ntfs-image.yy where x is 1 or 2 (my two partitions, one of which is like 100MB and restores just fine), and yy is a two letter code, starting at aa and ending with cj or something.
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I had windows 7 installed for a long time, decided it was time to do a reformat/reinstall. I made a clonezilla image of the harddrive (no compression), then reformatted/reinstalled. While setting it up, I noticed that I had (for some retarded reason) encrypted a large portion of my external harddrive (EFS), and I couldn't access it because I don't have the key files so I got virtualbox to try to put the image onto a virtual machine so I could login there and decrypt the stuff, but clonezilla fails with errors, something about it not being an image and "invalid magic".
I've checked the files, my sda2.ntfs-image.aa file is completely empty (zero bytes) and that's the one it fails on, but the others are 2gig files (about 300gig worth of them).
So to sum up, I'm looking to figure out if there's a way to either mount the image so I can try cloning the disk by copying the files over, or (preferably) using clonezilla to put the image back on the drive…If you need any more information please let me know and I'll get it ASAP…I would hate to lose 200GB of data because of a problem with the image.
If the file system is encrypted, Clonezilla will have problem to deal with that.
Maybe you can use "dd" to save and restore that partition, while use "saveparts" and "restoreparts" options of Clonezilla live to deal with other partitions.
Steven.
No, the filesystem wasn't encrypted, I'm sorry. The encrypted folder is on my external drive, and has no connection to my internal drive save for my key files that I need to get off of it.
I can't "save" anything, because I've already formatted the drive (believing that the clonezilla image would be a good backup). I also don't think I can restore the image using dd, because it is in the form sdax.ntfs-image.yy where x is 1 or 2 (my two partitions, one of which is like 100MB and restores just fine), and yy is a two letter code, starting at aa and ending with cj or something.
Oops… If sda2.ntfs-image.aa is completely empty… then no good… I believe no data was saved…
Sorry to see this…
Steven.