Unable to find target partition sda1 on clonezilla-live-2.6.7-28-amd64

[Asef Erfan]

I will try to describe all the steps that lead to this error massage in step by step below.

My Goal: I was trying to move 217GB of total DATA from an NVME(480GB) to a SATA SSD(240GB), which I suppose was a mistake since I thought Clonezilla would take into account empty space on the partition and format partitions in the smaller drive accordingly since i knew 217 GB of total DATA would fit inside 240GB SSD but ALAS It did not,

STEP 1 : I clone the complete 480GB NVME which had a total of 217GB data on it, the compressed image of clonezilla was about 175GB and NVME had 5 partitions, all good so far. NOTE : 175 GB clonezilla image of NVME is on a 1tb mechanical HDD.

STEP 2: I insert the 240GB SATA, I boot up clonezilla and select restore disk in beginner mode, Clonezilla gives error the drive is not large enough, I use expert mode -icds and run restore disk again not it said something like sda1 is not large enough

STEP 3: I thought perhaps i can leave behind the DATA pratition of NVME (which had applications and games and other data, not OS) and though to recover other partitions like p1,p2,p3,p5 (p4 was the data and the largest at 100GB total)

STEP 4: Since the other partitions combines was just 117GB I thought now it can restore(original partitions from NVME was also at 120GB in total with 30GB free space), I select restoreparts this time in clonezilla, Clonezilla now gives error that it needs nvme0n1 converted to sda as it could not find nvme drive, I run cnvt-ocs-dev nvmebak nvme0n1 sda from shell, it converts it to sda since i saw sda was the name it was giving the 240GB SATA.

STEP 5: I rerun clonezilla and select restorepart, select the sda1,sda2,sda3,sda5 and give the restore command, now clonezilla gives this error Unable to find target partition sda1, I see that my 240GB ssd had no name, so I boot up gparted, reformat the 240GB using ntfs format(now i saw the drive was being seen as sda1 in gparted)

STEP 6: I boot up clonezilla again, and again the restore part, but again the same error Unable to find target partition sda1 and again i saw after running clonezilla, my 240GB ssd again lost SDA1 designation.

I have attatched some pics of the shell with error, Please someone could help

[Asef Erfan]

the thread was a duplicate, main discussions are found here, I successfully restored,

https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/48d5f07863/?