I've followed this video successfully cloning my pc's drive to an external. Now I'm trying to clone from my external back onto another pc.
My external drive has a 2TB capacity while the original source drive and destination drives both have ~230GB capacities with 190GB free. The actual data transferred onto my 2TB external drive is about ~230GB, the rest of the external is labelled as "unallocated".
My problem is that Clonezilla will not let me transfer from the 2TB external to the 230GB destination drive, even though most of the extra space in the 2TB external is completely unallocated.
Is the only way to do a source -> external -> destination transfer with drives that are successively larger than the previous? How does one clone from a drive to another of equal size, using an external with a ton of unallocated space? How can I get clonezilla to ignore the unallocated partition,and only transfer the desired partitions?
Last edit: abc 2019-05-13
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I tried enabling options "-k1" and "-icds" in a device-to-device transfer as per this comment which seemed to complete successfully but on reboot the machine couldn't find Windows (error 0xc000000e).
Though I chose to skip checking the source filesystem before cloning...
Last edit: abc 2019-05-13
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Hi,
I've followed this video successfully cloning my pc's drive to an external. Now I'm trying to clone from my external back onto another pc.
My external drive has a 2TB capacity while the original source drive and destination drives both have ~230GB capacities with 190GB free. The actual data transferred onto my 2TB external drive is about ~230GB, the rest of the external is labelled as "unallocated".
My problem is that Clonezilla will not let me transfer from the 2TB external to the 230GB destination drive, even though most of the extra space in the 2TB external is completely unallocated.
Is the only way to do a source -> external -> destination transfer with drives that are successively larger than the previous? How does one clone from a drive to another of equal size, using an external with a ton of unallocated space? How can I get clonezilla to ignore the unallocated partition,and only transfer the desired partitions?
Last edit: abc 2019-05-13
I tried enabling options "-k1" and "-icds" in a device-to-device transfer as per this comment which seemed to complete successfully but on reboot the machine couldn't find Windows (error 0xc000000e).
Though I chose to skip checking the source filesystem before cloning...
Last edit: abc 2019-05-13
Well, larger source to smaller one is always a challenge to Clonezilla, since it's a block-based tool, not file-based one, as described here:
https://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq#119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq
+ youre deployed OS is MS Windows... in that case, you might also have to fix the boot loader... Just google the error code then you will know how to fix it.
Steven