A few days ago I downloaded Clonezilla Live from clownzilla.org. With help of this CD I created en image of a harddisk with en Windows 10 installation and then erased the disk for a reinstallation of Windows 10. The image was created on an usb-connected hard disk.
I copied the directory with the image to en Linux computer. I tried to access the second partion where the installation of windows 10 and the user data lives. Then I tried with different versions of "cat dir/sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.* | gzip -d -c | partclone.ntfs -r -C --restore_raw_file -s - -o sda2.img".
I tried to mount the resulting sda2.img file with "mount -o loop -t ntfs-3g ./sda2.img /mnt/ntfs" with following result:
Failed to read last sector (940679167): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/loop0': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/loop0' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
"file ./sda2.img" answers "sda2.img: x86 boot sector"
Because of these problems I installed Clonezilla on the Linux computer (Ubuntu 14.04 with clonezilla från ubuntu repositories version 3.5.2-2. I installed a new empty hd in the computer and tried to recreate the image on the new hd. Clonezilla starts but very soon I get message ""Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!". I formated that new empty hd and tried again, with the same result.
Any idea what I am doing wrong?
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I actually have no idea about the steps you have. Please tell the steps, one by one, The steps you have done from booting Clonezilla live, like how you boot Clonezilla live, select the language, keymap, the way you mount your image repository...
Steven
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A few days ago I downloaded Clonezilla Live from clownzilla.org. With help of this CD I created en image of a harddisk with en Windows 10 installation and then erased the disk for a reinstallation of Windows 10. The image was created on an usb-connected hard disk.
I copied the directory with the image to en Linux computer. I tried to access the second partion where the installation of windows 10 and the user data lives. Then I tried with different versions of "cat dir/sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.* | gzip -d -c | partclone.ntfs -r -C --restore_raw_file -s - -o sda2.img".
I tried to mount the resulting sda2.img file with "mount -o loop -t ntfs-3g ./sda2.img /mnt/ntfs" with following result:
Failed to read last sector (940679167): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/loop0': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/loop0' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
"file ./sda2.img" answers "sda2.img: x86 boot sector"
Because of these problems I installed Clonezilla on the Linux computer (Ubuntu 14.04 with clonezilla från ubuntu repositories version 3.5.2-2. I installed a new empty hd in the computer and tried to recreate the image on the new hd. Clonezilla starts but very soon I get message ""Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!". I formated that new empty hd and tried again, with the same result.
Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Solved, I will come back later.
OK, if this is a bug, and if it's reproducible here, definitely we will fix it. Hence please tell us where went wrong. Thanks.
Steven
Just got this error when trying to clone an HP Compaq 6005
Single HD, WIndows 10 clean install
Clone to USB formatted
Clonezille Live 2.6.7-28-amd64
Please post your steps in detail, one by one so that we can try to reproduce this issue. If it's reproducible, it might be able to be fixed.
Steven
Steven,
I was trying to copy the image to a 16GB USB drive
I was able to create the image on a 64GB drive (the actual image is
15.2GB which is larger than the actual capacity of the 16GB drive)
Bob Vitter
Last edit: Steven Shiau 2020-07-27
I actually have no idea about the steps you have. Please tell the steps, one by one, The steps you have done from booting Clonezilla live, like how you boot Clonezilla live, select the language, keymap, the way you mount your image repository...
Steven
It worked after several tries, apparently I selected the wrong option
Last edit: Steven Shiau 2020-07-28