We have been very happy with Clonezilla, which has been a wonderful cloning tool for our Windows XP and Windows 7 laptops. We normally use the Network boot with the Clients To Wait setting to clone one to 30 laptops at a time.
Support for Windows 7 is expiring so we are now changing to Windows 10. Most Windows 10 laptops have UEFI secure boot, which is preventing us from using the Network boot with Cients to Wait setting. When we try it for the purposes of creating a Windows 10 image to use for cloning, it boots to the network and starts the process.
The process then fails then fails with the message "The input device (sda) does not exist on this machine! We will not save this device (sda)!" Is there a step we are missing? Is it still possible to use Clonezilla to boot computers to a network and image multiple UEFI secure boot computers at the same time?
If the only option is to boot each individual machine to a USB we will need to look into using an alternative cloning software. We have been very satisfied with Clonezilla and wish to continue using it if that is still an option but, with new computers switching to UEFI secure boot and no legacy boot option, we don't know if it is still a tool we can use.
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We are also running into the issue of Clonezilla not finding the hard drive when we boot to Live on USB so that doesn't appear to be a solution either. Has anyone found a way to get Clonezilla to work with Windows 10 on UEFI secure boot devices? If you have, what steps did you need to take to get it to work?
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You can use the latest testing AMD64 version of (either Debian-based or Ubuntu-based) Clonezilla live with Secure Boot enabled. https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
But when I clone Windows 10 UEFI PCs I just disable Secure Boot while I image the PC then optionally enable it after the image is complete (if needed).
We have been very happy with Clonezilla, which has been a wonderful cloning tool for our Windows XP and Windows 7 laptops. We normally use the Network boot with the Clients To Wait setting to clone one to 30 laptops at a time.
Support for Windows 7 is expiring so we are now changing to Windows 10. Most Windows 10 laptops have UEFI secure boot, which is preventing us from using the Network boot with Cients to Wait setting. When we try it for the purposes of creating a Windows 10 image to use for cloning, it boots to the network and starts the process.
The process then fails then fails with the message "The input device (sda) does not exist on this machine! We will not save this device (sda)!" Is there a step we are missing? Is it still possible to use Clonezilla to boot computers to a network and image multiple UEFI secure boot computers at the same time?
If the only option is to boot each individual machine to a USB we will need to look into using an alternative cloning software. We have been very satisfied with Clonezilla and wish to continue using it if that is still an option but, with new computers switching to UEFI secure boot and no legacy boot option, we don't know if it is still a tool we can use.
We are also running into the issue of Clonezilla not finding the hard drive when we boot to Live on USB so that doesn't appear to be a solution either. Has anyone found a way to get Clonezilla to work with Windows 10 on UEFI secure boot devices? If you have, what steps did you need to take to get it to work?
Hi C.W. Techs
You can use the latest testing AMD64 version of (either Debian-based or Ubuntu-based) Clonezilla live with Secure Boot enabled.
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
But when I clone Windows 10 UEFI PCs I just disable Secure Boot while I image the PC then optionally enable it after the image is complete (if needed).
Don't forget to turn off Windows 10 Fast Startup, run a disk check, and then reboot your Windows PC before you create your new image.
https://www.howtogeek.com/243901/the-pros-and-cons-of-windows-10s-fast-startup-mode/
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/guide-to-using-check-disk-in-windows-vista/