My old disk is beginning to fail. I've spent all day learning about clonezilla.
I have an old 1TB Toshiba disk and I've bought a new 1TB Toshiba disk (different model).
I created the clonezilla on a CD, when I tried to clone my old disk to the new one it started but then complained about
destination disk size is too small
destination disk size: 1953525166 (1000.2GB)
Source disk size from the image: 1953525168 (1000.2GB)
Why would my source disk be just 2 bigger than my new disk ??
Is there anything (simple!) I can do to get around this or have I just wasted money on a new disk?
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Well I am really struggling with this.
I thought if I shrank a partition it would work. I created a bootable gparted live CD, however even the i686 did not load due to secure boot, so I disabled secure boot in the BIOS and then I could load and run gparted - I shrank the recovery partition by the 1 spare GB it had, then tried again with clonezilla.
Still didn't work - exact same error. It seems the clone will even copy the unallocated space. So now I am stuck- all because of 2 sectors difference even though the hard drives are meant to both be 1TB. AAaaarghhhh!!
Last edit: Andy S 2014-12-31
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It's not looking good, I had to run with -rescue since there are bad sectors, but the clone is running copying the main C: drive now and it is hitting many sectors that it cannot read and therefore has lost the data. It is very odd, every 512th sector it says it cannot read - why would that be? Is it an error with the disk read head?
Looks like I will probably have to go with fresh install with all the hassle that brings.
It shows lots of errors like
Buffer I/O error on device sda4, logical block xxxxxxxx
Last edit: Andy S 2014-12-31
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"destination disk size: 1953525166 (1000.2GB)
Source disk size from the image: 1953525168 (1000.2GB)"
Yes, Clonezilla won't let it go even it's only 2 bytes difference. "-icds" will force it to go.
When you see some bad sectors, Clonezilla won't help too much. "ddrescue" might help more.
Steven.
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My old disk is beginning to fail. I've spent all day learning about clonezilla.
I have an old 1TB Toshiba disk and I've bought a new 1TB Toshiba disk (different model).
I created the clonezilla on a CD, when I tried to clone my old disk to the new one it started but then complained about
destination disk size is too small
destination disk size: 1953525166 (1000.2GB)
Source disk size from the image: 1953525168 (1000.2GB)
Why would my source disk be just 2 bigger than my new disk ??
Is there anything (simple!) I can do to get around this or have I just wasted money on a new disk?
Well I am really struggling with this.
I thought if I shrank a partition it would work. I created a bootable gparted live CD, however even the i686 did not load due to secure boot, so I disabled secure boot in the BIOS and then I could load and run gparted - I shrank the recovery partition by the 1 spare GB it had, then tried again with clonezilla.
Still didn't work - exact same error. It seems the clone will even copy the unallocated space. So now I am stuck- all because of 2 sectors difference even though the hard drives are meant to both be 1TB. AAaaarghhhh!!
Last edit: Andy S 2014-12-31
now running expert mode -icds and it has got past the error and seems to be cloning the partitions, will update with result soon.
Last edit: Andy S 2014-12-31
It's not looking good, I had to run with -rescue since there are bad sectors, but the clone is running copying the main C: drive now and it is hitting many sectors that it cannot read and therefore has lost the data. It is very odd, every 512th sector it says it cannot read - why would that be? Is it an error with the disk read head?
Looks like I will probably have to go with fresh install with all the hassle that brings.
It shows lots of errors like
Buffer I/O error on device sda4, logical block xxxxxxxx
Last edit: Andy S 2014-12-31
"destination disk size: 1953525166 (1000.2GB)
Source disk size from the image: 1953525168 (1000.2GB)"
Yes, Clonezilla won't let it go even it's only 2 bytes difference. "-icds" will force it to go.
When you see some bad sectors, Clonezilla won't help too much. "ddrescue" might help more.
Steven.