XP ntfs drive cloned but failed to boot
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I set up the USB boot drive for Clonezilla (1.2.1-29) and used it to clone an existing 80 GB drive running windows XP using the ntfs file system to a new 160GB drive. For the run I selected the following options:
Disk/Partition to Disk/Partition
Local disk to local disk
sda as source (80gb)
sdb as target (160gb)
Advance parms ...
.....Turned off grub This is a windows installation
.....-r to extend to fill the drive
partition table...-k1
boot loader yes
But I must be missing a step. When I try to boot the cloned drive (160gb) after disconnecting the existing drive (80gb) I only get a blinking cursor on the screen. If I boot the original 80 GB drive windows can find the second drive and mounts it. I find all the files look to have been copied. Is there some step I need to do after cloning to get the drive to boot? Thank you.
Try to boot clonezilla live, enter command line then:
1. sudo su -
2. partclone.ntfsreloc -w /dev/sda1 (replace /dev/sda by your NTFS boot partition)
We are working on add this option to device-devce clone. This option will be added in the next release.
Please let us know your results.
BTW, some ref you might be interested:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/23_Missing_OS.faq#23_Missing_OS.faq
Newer clonezilla live with updated partclone.ntfsreloc is available:
http://free.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/testing/clonezilla-live-1.2.1-30.iso
or
ftp://ftp.twaren.net/local-distfiles/clonezilla-live/testing/clonezilla-live-1.2.1-30.iso (maybe faster)