I currently have been struck trying to load Clonezilla Live from a USB stick. I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 1018 which I have successfully installed XP onto, and I have been using the instructions (Windows options A & B) from the website with no luck. I have tried it with the current stable release (clonezilla-live-1.2.6-59-i686.zip), as well as the alternative stable release (clonezilla-live-20110113-maverick.zip)
As far as I can tell, the BIOS gets stuck trying to load from the USB and I get a blinking cursor and thats it (waited about 15 min one time but nothing).
Any Ideas?
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it could be
A) USB boot doesn't work
or
B) Live-CD/Live-USB-Stick doesn't work
(Or both, but that would be too mean..)
To check if USB-boot is working try another Live-CD like Ubuntu. If it's booting then it must be the 'installation' of clonezilla on your USB-Stick.
Or if it's the BIOS:
Maybe the HP's BIOS has something activated like "quick boot" or "boot booster" that is messing with the USB-Stick. Make sure to also check that.
Greetings
dominic
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I spent the whole day yesterday trying to clone my HD with clonezilla. I have used clonezilla before and am fairly familiar with it. But for the life of me, I cannot get clonezilla to boot from the x120e with the dvd/cd usb attached. I went into the bios, to check. Boot order is cd/dvd usb, ffd usb, hd wd , etc…so it should boot but it doesn't.
I know clean install is the recommended method but I just want to know why clonezilla could not boot from Lenovo x120e. I burned 3 ISO cds for clonezilla and tried them in my desktop and hd laptop, no problem, 32bit and 64 bit clonezilla both boot with no problem. Just the Lenovo x120e.
I would suspect very few people used clonezilla, just wonder if anybody has an idea why a iso boot disk would not boot.
I tried to change some bios setting but no dice. logical and uufi priority, etc..
Would appreciate any comment.
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Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
How did you make it bootable?
Any error or warning messages did you see when you create the bootable USB flash drive?
Steven.
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Thx Steven for your reply. I used the latest clonezilla live CD and wrote the ISO file with imageburn. There is no issue there as I have done this before.
I did find the cause of the problem though. For some VERY strange reason, the Lenovo X120e is incompatible with the Teac DV-W285v USB dvd/cd super slim drive. I do have another DVD/CD 5.25" drive in a USB enclosure and clonezilla boots up fine.
I have the latest bios on the Lenovo and the Teac drive also have the latest firmware. so I am out of luck there. The Teac drive is reviewed by 17 newegg owners as being compatible with all the laptops/computers so I am screwed so to speak.
I am only posting this in the hope of helping another soul who might have the same or similar kind of problem.
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Wow!!!!! steven_shiau so you the famous author/developer of tuxboot? And you have time to help smucks like me? Of course either method tuxboot or the windows manual would help and I can do that. My question is what is your experience with clonezilla cloning a win7 64 bit? I had mixed results with my Intel x-25M SSD 128 GB. Clonezilla did clone the OEM drive to the Intel, but, I had to do a windows repair to make it work. No biggie but just a little bit of annoyance. Also I wonder about the drive alignment of the SSD. There were some reports that I have to do some fixes there also.
None of the issues above is a showstopper, just mention them for the sake of technical discussion. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. I am in Connecticut, US.
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Husky55,
I am just the project leader, and it's _not_ me who wrote the tuxboot. I just proposed the idea, and Thomas Tsai made that.
As for the SSD alignment, Clonezilla does not deal with that, so you might need to use the software bundled with harddrive to tune that.
BTW, I am in Taiwan, GMT+8 :)
Steven.
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Just a very sincere thank you from another part of the world. It's just incredible that work done in one part of the world finds their way in different continents. I don't have to use Acronis or other apps any more.
Hope that you succeed in whatever endeavor you undertake. Thanks again.
PS Connecticut is in New York time, GMT -5..
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Howdy,
Thanks in advance for your help.
I currently have been struck trying to load Clonezilla Live from a USB stick. I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 1018 which I have successfully installed XP onto, and I have been using the instructions (Windows options A & B) from the website with no luck. I have tried it with the current stable release (clonezilla-live-1.2.6-59-i686.zip), as well as the alternative stable release (clonezilla-live-20110113-maverick.zip)
As far as I can tell, the BIOS gets stuck trying to load from the USB and I get a blinking cursor and thats it (waited about 15 min one time but nothing).
Any Ideas?
Hi
I got a few suggestions:
it could be
A) USB boot doesn't work
or
B) Live-CD/Live-USB-Stick doesn't work
(Or both, but that would be too mean..)
To check if USB-boot is working try another Live-CD like Ubuntu. If it's booting then it must be the 'installation' of clonezilla on your USB-Stick.
Or if it's the BIOS:
Maybe the HP's BIOS has something activated like "quick boot" or "boot booster" that is messing with the USB-Stick. Make sure to also check that.
Greetings
dominic
Or you can try to upgrade the firmware of BIOS.
Steven.
I also have problem but witha cd/dvd USB.
I spent the whole day yesterday trying to clone my HD with clonezilla. I have used clonezilla before and am fairly familiar with it. But for the life of me, I cannot get clonezilla to boot from the x120e with the dvd/cd usb attached. I went into the bios, to check. Boot order is cd/dvd usb, ffd usb, hd wd , etc…so it should boot but it doesn't.
I know clean install is the recommended method but I just want to know why clonezilla could not boot from Lenovo x120e. I burned 3 ISO cds for clonezilla and tried them in my desktop and hd laptop, no problem, 32bit and 64 bit clonezilla both boot with no problem. Just the Lenovo x120e.
I would suspect very few people used clonezilla, just wonder if anybody has an idea why a iso boot disk would not boot.
I tried to change some bios setting but no dice. logical and uufi priority, etc..
Would appreciate any comment.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
How did you make it bootable?
Any error or warning messages did you see when you create the bootable USB flash drive?
Steven.
Thx Steven for your reply. I used the latest clonezilla live CD and wrote the ISO file with imageburn. There is no issue there as I have done this before.
I did find the cause of the problem though. For some VERY strange reason, the Lenovo X120e is incompatible with the Teac DV-W285v USB dvd/cd super slim drive. I do have another DVD/CD 5.25" drive in a USB enclosure and clonezilla boots up fine.
I have the latest bios on the Lenovo and the Teac drive also have the latest firmware. so I am out of luck there. The Teac drive is reviewed by 17 newegg owners as being compatible with all the laptops/computers so I am screwed so to speak.
I am only posting this in the hope of helping another soul who might have the same or similar kind of problem.
Or maybe you can try to use the USB version of Clonezilla live?
http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php
Maybe that helps.
Steven.
Wow!!!!! steven_shiau so you the famous author/developer of tuxboot? And you have time to help smucks like me? Of course either method tuxboot or the windows manual would help and I can do that. My question is what is your experience with clonezilla cloning a win7 64 bit? I had mixed results with my Intel x-25M SSD 128 GB. Clonezilla did clone the OEM drive to the Intel, but, I had to do a windows repair to make it work. No biggie but just a little bit of annoyance. Also I wonder about the drive alignment of the SSD. There were some reports that I have to do some fixes there also.
None of the issues above is a showstopper, just mention them for the sake of technical discussion. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. I am in Connecticut, US.
Husky55,
I am just the project leader, and it's _not_ me who wrote the tuxboot. I just proposed the idea, and Thomas Tsai made that.
As for the SSD alignment, Clonezilla does not deal with that, so you might need to use the software bundled with harddrive to tune that.
BTW, I am in Taiwan, GMT+8 :)
Steven.
Hi Steven,
Just a very sincere thank you from another part of the world. It's just incredible that work done in one part of the world finds their way in different continents. I don't have to use Acronis or other apps any more.
Hope that you succeed in whatever endeavor you undertake. Thanks again.
PS Connecticut is in New York time, GMT -5..
Hi Husky55,
Thanks! Do our best.
Steven.