The HDD in my laptop started going bad, so I was sent a new one.
I have an external enclosure for SATA 2.5" HDDs, which is what I am using.
I'm trying to clone the internal hard drive to the new hard drive in the external enclosure.
I tried cloning internal -> external, and this time I tried it the other way around. (physically switched the drives)
Here's the process I go through:
1) Boot from flash drive (note: The external enclosure needs to be unplugged until CloneZilla starts booting, or else it won't boot)
2) I choose English
3) Don't touch keymap
4) Start Clonezilla
5) device-device
6) disk_to_local_disk (also tried part_to_local_part. Same thing happens as below)
7) Choose source (Samsung)
8) Choose destination (Fujitsu)
9) Leave the rest of the options as default (-g-auto, use the partition table)
10) Start
I get the GUI, and I get the following below:
****************
Source partition file system is ntfs...
Cloning the /dev/sdb2 to /dev/sda2...
Clean filesystem hearder in device /dev/sda2...
****************
Using ntfsclone to clone
Checking NTFS integrity in /dev/sdb2... done!
ntfsclone v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Then it just sits there until I manually intervene with Ctrl+C, and am given the message "Failed to clone /dev/sdb2 to /dev/sda2!!!
What am I doing wrong?
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BTW, when you mentioned "it takes a very long time to restore the FS from a 250 GB image." and "a 30 GB image is taking forever too.", how long did you mean ?
Normally a modern computer, with 10/100 ethernet, the speed to save an image is about 300 MB/min to 1 GB/min (gzip), and the restoring rate maybe double. It depends on the hardware, network...
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(Windows XP Pro with 4 partitions)
The HDD in my laptop started going bad, so I was sent a new one.
I have an external enclosure for SATA 2.5" HDDs, which is what I am using.
I'm trying to clone the internal hard drive to the new hard drive in the external enclosure.
I tried cloning internal -> external, and this time I tried it the other way around. (physically switched the drives)
Here's the process I go through:
1) Boot from flash drive (note: The external enclosure needs to be unplugged until CloneZilla starts booting, or else it won't boot)
2) I choose English
3) Don't touch keymap
4) Start Clonezilla
5) device-device
6) disk_to_local_disk (also tried part_to_local_part. Same thing happens as below)
7) Choose source (Samsung)
8) Choose destination (Fujitsu)
9) Leave the rest of the options as default (-g-auto, use the partition table)
10) Start
I get the GUI, and I get the following below:
****************
Source partition file system is ntfs...
Cloning the /dev/sdb2 to /dev/sda2...
Clean filesystem hearder in device /dev/sda2...
****************
Using ntfsclone to clone
Checking NTFS integrity in /dev/sdb2... done!
ntfsclone v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Then it just sits there until I manually intervene with Ctrl+C, and am given the message "Failed to clone /dev/sdb2 to /dev/sda2!!!
What am I doing wrong?
NOTE: It worked on my non-main partitions. All but my main one (the OS one) copy fine.
Solved: I guess it takes a very long time to restore the FS from a 250 GB image.
a 30 GB image is taking forever too. This needs to be mentioned somewhere in the guide, since it acts like it's not doing anything at all.
Jonah,
How did you solve that ?
BTW, when you mentioned "it takes a very long time to restore the FS from a 250 GB image." and "a 30 GB image is taking forever too.", how long did you mean ?
Normally a modern computer, with 10/100 ethernet, the speed to save an image is about 300 MB/min to 1 GB/min (gzip), and the restoring rate maybe double. It depends on the hardware, network...