Dynamic disc to clone, mismatched GPT and MBR partition, OSX
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Question: How in my case can I do dynamic disk disk-to-disk exact data clone without any modification to data on source HDD?
I've HDD with Windows 7 installed on it and OSX through Clover or Chameleon. Accidentally, I've changed it to Dynamic Disk.
I tried to convert dynamic disk to basic with Minitool Partition Wizard and TestDisk tool strictly following instructions from WEB, it was unsuccessful.
When I tried to clone it on SSD with Clonezilla Live bootable USB stick' option disk-to-disk I got a message "This disk contains mismatched GPT and MBR partition" and instruction about "sudo sgdisk -z /dev/sdx" command.
I don't want to do any further risky operations on source HDD.
Nor converting dynamic disk to basic, not to clean the GPT partition table.
So, How in my case can I do dynamic disk disk-to-disk exact data clone without any modification to data on source HDD?
After cloning, target SSD has to have Windows 7 which normally boots, possibly after some edits on target SSD (BCD record and so).
After cloning I want to continue trying convert target SSD from dynamic disc to basic and make my OSX and Windows 7 both booting.
I know there is method with HEX table editing - change some exact bytes. But I cannot find it.
Last edit: Bill Lance 2022-04-06
I am sorry to say that the dynamic disk from MS Windows is not supported by Clonezilla.
Steven
Thank You for your clarification, Steven. And for Clonezilla! I've a great experience with Clonezilla for many years. It's my working solution for cloning OSX + Clover from a bigger sized hdd to a lesser sized hdd. I still remember how I searched for solution and found helping hand in Clonezilla!
People, please, point me to direction where I've to search. Is there a program that can make disk-to-disk clone no matter what file systems and other data entities source disk has?