So, I have been trying a lot but I do not know anymore.
I want to restore a partition but I do not get this partition as an option in the clonezilla dialog.
I have a windows system partition that is on sda5 when I boot into livelinux. It is NTFS. I made a partition image on a NFTS external usb drive, so far ok.
In a virtual machine, I want to test the image restoring. I configure a harddisk of more GB than the source harddisk of the partition.
I have a backup of the MBR (by dd command) and the extended partition table (by sfdisk command). I first create the MBR with no problems. I used knoppix. It shows hda1 and hda2. I then used sfdisk to create the extended table. It creates empty hda3, hda4 (no sectors) and hda5 and hda6.
I know start clonezilla and I can see that it recognizes all the hdas. I select restore partition from image and use all standard options. But when I am to select the target partition hda5, it is not there. There is only my source partition.
On the command line of clonezilla, I cannot mount hda5. It says the volume is corrupt. But that is not surprising, since there is no file structure on it, right?
It is really hard to do a backup of the windows partition. I was looking on the net but could not find someone who did this. Perhaps you can help me.
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I will answer to this soon. I would like Clonezilla to get easily a NTFS Windows partition backup. Would be great. I have tried manually ntfsclone, partimage and dd, even dd_rescue but always had problems. Perhaps it is because I am doing it in vmware, and I did not allocate the harddisk space when creating the virtual disk. I was also configuring IDE harddisk and I am trying SCSI now. Ok, I will answer soon, at the moment I am trying another restore.
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Sorry for the delay. Here is the output of the commands.
By the way, my harddisk is sda.
I have a notebook on which was Windows Vista. I banned that on sda2 I think (about 8 GB). I put Windows XP and it boots to it (about 20 GB). It is on sda5. I have another 120 GB for data. When I use Clonezilla, I try a partition backup of sda2 and sda5. I am trying to restore the Windows XP system partition, bootable, in a virtual machine of vmware.
If you tell me I need to go without the recovery partition of Vista, I will gladly kick this shit to the void. hehehe
Olaf,
From your description, your XP system is on sda5, and your data partition is on sda6:
5 8258kB 22.0GB 22.0GB logical ntfs
6 22.0GB 151GB 129GB logical ntfs
So you mean you was trying to restore the Windows XP system partition, bootable, in a virtual machine of vmware. What did you mean ? You just want to restore sda5 and sda6 to a disk on vmware, and it's new, unformated disk ?
Steven.
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I want to have a system backup of my Windows XP. I do not care about the data partition which is sda6, yes. I backup data manually when I need.
But if the system crashes, I would like to be able to restore it, even on a new harddisk. I expect clonezilla to restore all necessary partitions on a new harddisk so that I can boot automatically into Windows XP, using the new harddisk.
To test this, I am using a blank disk without partition table in a virtual machine in vmware server. However, there may be difficulties because of that. For example, I usually use "do not allocate disk space now" which is a feature that lets the disk file dynamically grow.
To see if it is that problem I created a fully allocated disk of slightly more space than the complete harddisk of my Windows XP laptop in a virtual machine on an external usb harddisk (which is FAT32 formatted). Tonight I will try a complete restore of the harddisk which I expect to work. I didn't have problems with complete harddisk restoration, only with partitions. But even if I did it manually with various tools as I said before.
I thought that my problem would be a common one but it does not seem so. Ah, right windows user usually have only one partition. hehehe
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I forgot to mention that I tried to restore sda2 and sda5 since they belong together, is it? primary and logical partition. I cannot see sda1 as an option in clonezilla, otherwise I would try to restore that, too.
clonezilla fails after the restoration process was initiated. I will post future errors.
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what a disappointment. During the restore process of the first partition (sda2) I get the following error from gunzip:
stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
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So, I have been trying a lot but I do not know anymore.
I want to restore a partition but I do not get this partition as an option in the clonezilla dialog.
I have a windows system partition that is on sda5 when I boot into livelinux. It is NTFS. I made a partition image on a NFTS external usb drive, so far ok.
In a virtual machine, I want to test the image restoring. I configure a harddisk of more GB than the source harddisk of the partition.
I have a backup of the MBR (by dd command) and the extended partition table (by sfdisk command). I first create the MBR with no problems. I used knoppix. It shows hda1 and hda2. I then used sfdisk to create the extended table. It creates empty hda3, hda4 (no sectors) and hda5 and hda6.
I know start clonezilla and I can see that it recognizes all the hdas. I select restore partition from image and use all standard options. But when I am to select the target partition hda5, it is not there. There is only my source partition.
On the command line of clonezilla, I cannot mount hda5. It says the volume is corrupt. But that is not surprising, since there is no file structure on it, right?
It is really hard to do a backup of the windows partition. I was looking on the net but could not find someone who did this. Perhaps you can help me.
Olaf,
Could you please:
1. Boot clonezilla live, enter command line prompt
2. sudo su -
3. pated -s /dev/hda print
4. fdisk -l /dev/hda
5. cat /proc/partitions
6. blkid
Please post the results of 3-6 so it's easier for us to see why.
Steven.
I will answer to this soon. I would like Clonezilla to get easily a NTFS Windows partition backup. Would be great. I have tried manually ntfsclone, partimage and dd, even dd_rescue but always had problems. Perhaps it is because I am doing it in vmware, and I did not allocate the harddisk space when creating the virtual disk. I was also configuring IDE harddisk and I am trying SCSI now. Ok, I will answer soon, at the moment I am trying another restore.
Sorry for the delay. Here is the output of the commands.
By the way, my harddisk is sda.
I have a notebook on which was Windows Vista. I banned that on sda2 I think (about 8 GB). I put Windows XP and it boots to it (about 20 GB). It is on sda5. I have another 120 GB for data. When I use Clonezilla, I try a partition backup of sda2 and sda5. I am trying to restore the Windows XP system partition, bootable, in a virtual machine of vmware.
If you tell me I need to go without the recovery partition of Vista, I will gladly kick this shit to the void. hehehe
********************* PARTED OUTPUT ************************
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 8225kB 151GB 151GB extended lba
5 8258kB 22.0GB 22.0GB logical ntfs
6 22.0GB 151GB 129GB logical ntfs
2 151GB 160GB 8793MB primary ntfs boot
***********************************************************
***********************************************************
********************* FDISK OUTPUT **************************
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2 18388 147693577+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda2 * 18389 19457 8586742+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 2 2678 21502971 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 2679 18388 126190543+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
***********************************************************
***********************************************************
********************* PROC OUTPUT **************************
major minor #blocks name
8 0 156290904 sda
8 1 1 sda1
8 2 8586742 sda2
8 5 21502971 sda5
8 6 126190543 sda6
7 0 62192 loop0
8 16 960512 sdb
8 17 960496 sdb1
***********************************************************
***********************************************************
********************* BLKID OUTPUT **************************
/dev/sdb1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="PublicZone" UUID="066E-2F41" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda2: TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda6: TYPE="ntfs"
***********************************************************
***********************************************************
Olaf,
From your description, your XP system is on sda5, and your data partition is on sda6:
5 8258kB 22.0GB 22.0GB logical ntfs
6 22.0GB 151GB 129GB logical ntfs
So you mean you was trying to restore the Windows XP system partition, bootable, in a virtual machine of vmware. What did you mean ? You just want to restore sda5 and sda6 to a disk on vmware, and it's new, unformated disk ?
Steven.
I want to have a system backup of my Windows XP. I do not care about the data partition which is sda6, yes. I backup data manually when I need.
But if the system crashes, I would like to be able to restore it, even on a new harddisk. I expect clonezilla to restore all necessary partitions on a new harddisk so that I can boot automatically into Windows XP, using the new harddisk.
To test this, I am using a blank disk without partition table in a virtual machine in vmware server. However, there may be difficulties because of that. For example, I usually use "do not allocate disk space now" which is a feature that lets the disk file dynamically grow.
To see if it is that problem I created a fully allocated disk of slightly more space than the complete harddisk of my Windows XP laptop in a virtual machine on an external usb harddisk (which is FAT32 formatted). Tonight I will try a complete restore of the harddisk which I expect to work. I didn't have problems with complete harddisk restoration, only with partitions. But even if I did it manually with various tools as I said before.
I thought that my problem would be a common one but it does not seem so. Ah, right windows user usually have only one partition. hehehe
I forgot to mention that I tried to restore sda2 and sda5 since they belong together, is it? primary and logical partition. I cannot see sda1 as an option in clonezilla, otherwise I would try to restore that, too.
clonezilla fails after the restoration process was initiated. I will post future errors.
what a disappointment. During the restore process of the first partition (sda2) I get the following error from gunzip:
stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
"stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated", oops... looks like something went wrong when compressing the image using gzip... No idea why.
Steven.