Cloning and Restoring Win8.1 in UEFI mode
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Hi All,
I am am trying to clone and restore Win8.1 Pro x64 with clonezilla. The disk to image clone is working flawlessly (getting the success message in the terminal). After that I restore the image onto a brand new SSD.
During restoration clonezilla is displaying messages which say
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Running: update-efi-nvram-boot-entry -r /home/partimag/GENRERICWIN81PRO64/efi-nvram.dat /dev/sda
Updating boot entry of EFI NVRAM...
EFI system partition: /dev/sda2
The EFI system partition UUID 7bf7965c-8841-4225-9066-ed6d08a66846 in EFI NVRAM does NOT match the one on partition /dev/sda2. UUID of /dev/sda2 is:
Removing the stale boot entry 0002 by command:
efibootmgr -B -b 0002
BootCurrent: 0006
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0001,0003,0004,0005,0006
Boot0000 Diskette Drive
Boot0001 P3: SanDisk SD7SN3Q064G
Boot0003 USB Storage Device
Boot0004 CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive
Boot0005 Onboard NIC
Boot0006 UEFI: INT13(USB,0x80)
BootFFFA Internal Shell
BootFFFB Diagnostic Boot
BootFFFC Temporary Boot Menu
BootFFFD Graphic Setup
BootFFFE Text Setup
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EFI boot file "\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi" in partition /dev/sda2 was found.
Updating the boot entry 0002 by command:
efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 2 -L "Windows Boot Manager" -l "\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi"
Warning: Disk has a valid GPT signature but invalid PMBR.
Assuming this disk is not a GPT disk anymore.
Use gpt kernel option to override. Use GNU Parted to correct disk.
Error: no partition information on disk /dev/sda.
Cowardly refusing to create a boot option.
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Setting network boot in the 1st order of uEFI NVRAM...
End of restoreparts job for image GENRERICWIN81PRO64.
End of restoredisk job for image GENRERICWIN81PRO64.*
During the restore NO boot entry is created and as a result windows fails to boot
I have tried creating the windows install using both GPT and MBR for UEFI and while restoring both of them get the same message.
The version of clonezilla that I am using is 3.12.8-drbl1 and ubuntu 14.0.4.3
I am not using Clonezilla Live. I am using ocs-sr and below are the commands that i use for cloning and restoring
FOR CLONING
/usr/sbin/ocs-sr -q -c -j2 -nogui -ntfs-ok -z1p -i 20000000 -sc -p true savedisk IMAGE_NAME sda
FOR RESTORING
/usr/sbin/ocs-sr -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -nogui -k1 -v -r -icrc -icds -j2 -p true restoredisk IMAGE_NAME sda
What do you think the problem is?
Thanks for your help in advance
Last edit: Jack Denver 2016-01-08
Regarding the log in the post above, Even when I install WIN8.1 with MBR for UEFI, while restoring the image, clonezilla mentions that "Warning: Disk has a valid GPT signature but invalid PMBR."
even though the image should not have a GPT signature
Clonezilla is confused by the GPT and MBR in the same disk. You can use gdisk to clean that. Just keep the one you want.
//NOTE// Use gdisk carefully, and backup important data before you use Clonezilla. Just in case.
Steven.