Hi!!
I've tried to clone my 200gb primary hd (the one with the windows os), into a 200gb partition of my 1tb secondary hd (the one with ALL MY DATA)(every hd were NTSC format). Select the partition to local partition option with the advanced options but without changing any of it and start the process.
The process failed almost starting because it were unable to find my destination partition, so i reboot the system and start windows normally and now my secondary hd seems to be unasigned space.
Why did this happen? What can i do now? Is there a way to turn that back? I'm desperate! PLEASE HELP!!
Best regards. Alekos.
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I am not expert at Clonezilla, so I cannot tell you how your deletion happened. Also, I'm afraid it may be a while before you get knowledgeable help here from anyone very familiar with Clonezilla. People don't respond often, and response is not always helpful. My experience has been that the least familiar you are with the program, the least help you are likely to get.
However, what I can tell you is that I've noticed from my own threads and from others I have read, that recent versions of Clonezilla seem to be more unreliable and have a lot of bugs. It's a program that used to have a good reputation--too bad. I suggest you DO NOT USE a recent version. The most recent reliable version I have found is: clonezilla-live-20140915-trusty-amd64.iso
Otherwise, whether or not you find out how the problem happened from any support here, you will probably need to try other tools now, for recovery. Do not write to that disk, and try using testdisk, or System Rescue CD, which has testdisk as part of it:
Sorry for duplicate the post, first i tried to post via mail and the other one is after registration on the forum.
I had to buy a new hd and finally recovered all the data thru a recovery program, but i still don't know what went wrong when trying to clone the hd into another partition. Maybe different kind of partitions?
Thanks a lot for the help.
Alekos
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"what went wrong when trying to clone the hd into another partition." -> Are you sure you choose the correct "source" and "destination" disk?
Otherwise Clonezilla should not touch the source disk, unless there are bugs.
Steven.
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Hi!!
I've tried to clone my 200gb primary hd (the one with the windows os), into a 200gb partition of my 1tb secondary hd (the one with ALL MY DATA)(every hd were NTSC format). Select the partition to local partition option with the advanced options but without changing any of it and start the process.
The process failed almost starting because it were unable to find my destination partition, so i reboot the system and start windows normally and now my secondary hd seems to be unasigned space.
Why did this happen? What can i do now? Is there a way to turn that back? I'm desperate! PLEASE HELP!!
Best regards. Alekos.
Alekos,
I am not expert at Clonezilla, so I cannot tell you how your deletion happened. Also, I'm afraid it may be a while before you get knowledgeable help here from anyone very familiar with Clonezilla. People don't respond often, and response is not always helpful. My experience has been that the least familiar you are with the program, the least help you are likely to get.
However, what I can tell you is that I've noticed from my own threads and from others I have read, that recent versions of Clonezilla seem to be more unreliable and have a lot of bugs. It's a program that used to have a good reputation--too bad. I suggest you DO NOT USE a recent version. The most recent reliable version I have found is: clonezilla-live-20140915-trusty-amd64.iso
Otherwise, whether or not you find out how the problem happened from any support here, you will probably need to try other tools now, for recovery. Do not write to that disk, and try using testdisk, or System Rescue CD, which has testdisk as part of it:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
Testdisk people also have another file recovery tool that you might try. And there are also other tools that can recover a deleted partition, etc.
Good luck--sorry to hear about what happened to you.
Michael
Sorry for duplicate the post, first i tried to post via mail and the other one is after registration on the forum.
I had to buy a new hd and finally recovered all the data thru a recovery program, but i still don't know what went wrong when trying to clone the hd into another partition. Maybe different kind of partitions?
Thanks a lot for the help.
Alekos
"what went wrong when trying to clone the hd into another partition." -> Are you sure you choose the correct "source" and "destination" disk?
Otherwise Clonezilla should not touch the source disk, unless there are bugs.
Steven.