NTFS Drive Restore Error (device is too small
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I have used Clonezilla with much success on numerous machines. However, I have run into a problem with a group of machines all setup the same. I used a live USB version of clonezilla to create an image of windows xp machine using all of the default options. I did a complete image (partition table and all). I then deleted the partition table using GParted. I then tried to restore the image to the original drive once again using the same usb live version of Clonezilla. However, after the partition table is created I get the following error.
Output device is too small (xxxx) to fit the NTFS image (xxxx)
Where xxxx is the sizes reported, sorry but I didn't write the exact sizes down. However to recap it was a complete image written to USB flash drive and tried to restore to exact hard drive used to make the image after a partition table wipe.
Jon
Make sure the partition size is equal or larger than the original one. It can not even be 1 byte smaller. Otherwise ntfsclone will refuse to do that.
I know about the can't be too small. The problem I have is that I am using the full disk mode. I am letting clonezilla create the backup partition information, and then trying to restore the entire image, partition table and data to the EXACT same drive that originally had the data. But the restore says the partition is too small, even though it is the same disk and partition table to created using clonezilla.
Maybe it is due to the CHS difference on different kernel.
Try to turn on "-e" option when you restoring the image.
Please let us know the results.
Thanks.