My Windows 10 computer had I think 3 partitions, so when I used Clonezilla to save an image, there were sda1, sda2 and sda3 to be saved. I have had to wipe the hard disk, losing those partitions. How can I restore from the image?
Ken
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What exactly do you have problems with? Because restoring an image is about the same as creating one, except you choose the option "Restore disk" instead of "Save disk".
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Thank you for your reply but you didn't get the point. Yes, I know how to restore from a Clonezilla image; I have done it many times over the years. But that has always been restoring to a hard disk whose partitions are the same as they were during the saving of the image. For reasons I don't need to get into, this time after capturing the image I had wiped the hard disk, losing its partitions (three of them, I think, but I don't know their order and sizes). I had reformatted it (NTFS) with just one partition for the whole disk. It hadn't occurred to me that Clonezilla would not reformat the disk as part of the restoration process. In fact, it occurs to me that anyone wanting to restore to a brand new hard disk, perhaps because the old one has died or has been replaced by a larger one, needs to know how to persuade Clonezilla to work in those circumstances.
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Then I'm curious how exactly you have made the image, since Clonezilla should store partition information within the image and use that information to recreate the partitions during the restore of the image and before restoring the data. Which is it's default behaviour. I never have to recreate the partitions manually, even if I clean the disk completely with diskpart.
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Yes, that is what I thought. I tried again. As I said before, there were three partitions. When I tried to restore, Clonezilla apparently immediately restored the first, very small, but then for sda2 I got the following: "target partition size 10501 MB is smaller than the source (249066 MB). Use option -C to disable size checking (dangerous)". I cannot understand how there was a small target partition, since I had wiped and reformatted the hard disk as one primary partition. I tried option -C, but that didn't help. Eventually, not having Windows 10 DVDs, I successfully reinstalled Windows 8.1 and then all my programs etc. (many hours). I saved an image of that and then tried again to restore the Windows 10 image ... merely destroying my Windows 8.1installation, but the image restoration of that worked without trouble. I would have liked to get back my Windows 10 which I paid for, already installed on the computer!
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My Windows 10 computer had I think 3 partitions, so when I used Clonezilla to save an image, there were sda1, sda2 and sda3 to be saved. I have had to wipe the hard disk, losing those partitions. How can I restore from the image?
Ken
What exactly do you have problems with? Because restoring an image is about the same as creating one, except you choose the option "Restore disk" instead of "Save disk".
Thank you for your reply but you didn't get the point. Yes, I know how to restore from a Clonezilla image; I have done it many times over the years. But that has always been restoring to a hard disk whose partitions are the same as they were during the saving of the image. For reasons I don't need to get into, this time after capturing the image I had wiped the hard disk, losing its partitions (three of them, I think, but I don't know their order and sizes). I had reformatted it (NTFS) with just one partition for the whole disk. It hadn't occurred to me that Clonezilla would not reformat the disk as part of the restoration process. In fact, it occurs to me that anyone wanting to restore to a brand new hard disk, perhaps because the old one has died or has been replaced by a larger one, needs to know how to persuade Clonezilla to work in those circumstances.
Then I'm curious how exactly you have made the image, since Clonezilla should store partition information within the image and use that information to recreate the partitions during the restore of the image and before restoring the data. Which is it's default behaviour. I never have to recreate the partitions manually, even if I clean the disk completely with diskpart.
Yes, that is what I thought. I tried again. As I said before, there were three partitions. When I tried to restore, Clonezilla apparently immediately restored the first, very small, but then for sda2 I got the following: "target partition size 10501 MB is smaller than the source (249066 MB). Use option -C to disable size checking (dangerous)". I cannot understand how there was a small target partition, since I had wiped and reformatted the hard disk as one primary partition. I tried option -C, but that didn't help. Eventually, not having Windows 10 DVDs, I successfully reinstalled Windows 8.1 and then all my programs etc. (many hours). I saved an image of that and then tried again to restore the Windows 10 image ... merely destroying my Windows 8.1installation, but the image restoration of that worked without trouble. I would have liked to get back my Windows 10 which I paid for, already installed on the computer!