Help restoring old notebook partition
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Hello everyone. I have a notebook from 2011 that, from what I can tell, used Clonezilla on the past to choose between booting on the O.S. or starting the Recovery procedures. The Recovery partition stills there, with all the files, specially what I presume to be the backup image (large .lzo.ax files). I've attached the file structure of that partition.
At some point, another windows was installed on the main partition and the first menu disappered. I guess that if I manage to trigger the recovery process, everything on the notebook will be as it was on the past.
What I want to do is restore the system from those files. I have a flashdrive with Clonezilla Live. I also have a copy of that .lzo file (both as a single file and the uncompressed one).
Last edit: Arthur de Castro Silva 2020-09-09
So what was the issue you encountered when you restored the image?
Steven
Using Clonezilla Live from the USB with the uncompressed image, there was no option to "restore image", only to save. The image is named sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img, without any further extension (or it really is ntfs-ptcl-img?), maybe it's due to that?
Still, my idea was try to boot this live-hd version that may have all the configurations to properly restore the system. Since it was a system designed for a end user, it must do everything by itself. In that scenario, I would like to read about how could I do that with those files I've on the screenshot.
With the uncompressed image?
The image dir shown in your 1st post is apparently compressed. Did you manually uncompress that? Or?
Steven
I've mannually uncompressed it to try restoring with the Live USB. I guess when the original notebook restoration process started, it would uncompress and restore without any user interaction.