I created a backup of a disk with clonezilla (one for a 40 gig one for a 80 gig, with each a 1 gig FAT32 and a RAW partition) and wanted to restore them now on a 160 gig disk. Both failed to restore the FAT partition.
The restore process seemed to pass successfully (I don't see any error message), but after mounting the partition is empty!
When I try to call dosfsck to check the file system it tells me that there are unclaimed clusters and wants to free them.
When I try to "dd" the whole source disk to the target disk (I just tried it with my disks) it is fine and everything works. But this is not possible for my colleagues who had the damaged disk but the backup. And the backup / restore as described above fails for my disks as well.
I also tried to use the expert mode but I didn't find any useful switches here.
Please help me to restore the data!
I only have the 160 gig disks available and I don't see any reasons why the recovery should not work :-)
I tried two versions for restoring the backup - one was the latest version, one is a bit older (from 2008 I think).
Best regards,
Erik
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- I dd'ed the 80 gig to 160 gig without any problems, the target system worked well
- I backuped this 160 gig with defaults (beginner mode) and restored to another 160 gig blank disk
- The files looked fine but the disk did not boot (syslinux boot error)
- I issued a syslinux /dev/sda1 to the boot partition and it booted!
So something works, but my expectation would be that the target disk should boot directly without any errors and without further hackings on syslinux.
Best regards,
Erik
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Hi all,
I created a backup of a disk with clonezilla (one for a 40 gig one for a 80 gig, with each a 1 gig FAT32 and a RAW partition) and wanted to restore them now on a 160 gig disk. Both failed to restore the FAT partition.
The restore process seemed to pass successfully (I don't see any error message), but after mounting the partition is empty!
When I try to call dosfsck to check the file system it tells me that there are unclaimed clusters and wants to free them.
When I try to "dd" the whole source disk to the target disk (I just tried it with my disks) it is fine and everything works. But this is not possible for my colleagues who had the damaged disk but the backup. And the backup / restore as described above fails for my disks as well.
I also tried to use the expert mode but I didn't find any useful switches here.
Please help me to restore the data!
I only have the 160 gig disks available and I don't see any reasons why the recovery should not work :-)
I tried two versions for restoring the backup - one was the latest version, one is a bit older (from 2008 I think).
Best regards,
Erik
Hi all,
here some additional information to my problem:
- I dd'ed the 80 gig to 160 gig without any problems, the target system worked well
- I backuped this 160 gig with defaults (beginner mode) and restored to another 160 gig blank disk
- The files looked fine but the disk did not boot (syslinux boot error)
- I issued a syslinux /dev/sda1 to the boot partition and it booted!
So something works, but my expectation would be that the target disk should boot directly without any errors and without further hackings on syslinux.
Best regards,
Erik
Since you have open a bug report here:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=671650&aid=3428319&group_id=115473
Let's discuss on that.
Steven.