I am trying to move a partition image to a new ssd. Clonezilla made the iamge and it checked fine.
When I go to restore it, the new SSD isn't listed as a possible target.
I can see the disk as an option in the bios on start up and gparted sees the disk as well (I used it to create a partition table)
Am I missing a step?
Scenario: 2 HDD's. shrink partition one disk 1 to 125gig, clonezilla 125G partition image on to disk 2 as file. remove disk one and install new ssd (only one sata connection so can't have both), use gparted, run clonezilla again but only smaller partitions on hdd disk2 are listed as options for target.
Sorry if this is posted in the wrong place
Thanks, any help would be appreciated.
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Is it possibly you have mistaken
restore_partition with restore_disk (to find in the list, the target) ?
Have you now formated with gparted
any smaller partition (partition should be equal or greater as befor) ?
Normally it's better to use an additional external usb drive for the image to avoid any additional errors.
When you have clonezilla-live-2.0.1-9-i686-pae (…?)
that is entirely possible- this is my first go-round trying this. I guess since I chose to image the partition instead of disk because I needed the image to be smaller than the original disk so I could fit it on the new ssd I thought I was supposed to restore partition.
I did use gparted to create a partiton table on the new ssd, but just one partition encompassing all the available disk space.
I did shrink the original disk down to 125gig with partitioning so it would fit on the 128gig ssd.
I am at work now and will check when I get home.
fyi- the perpose of this is to clone a windows XP drive.
Thanks for your input.
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Well- I finnaly got to try again. I used gparted live again and did this:
create partition table ntfs,
create partition (whole disk minus 1meg at beginning and a little space at the end,
format partition ntfs
and when I used clonezilla to restore partition the windows xp partition image it recognized the disk and restored successfully.
now to figure out why it won't actually run windows from the disk….
thanks again for your help
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I am trying to move a partition image to a new ssd. Clonezilla made the iamge and it checked fine.
When I go to restore it, the new SSD isn't listed as a possible target.
I can see the disk as an option in the bios on start up and gparted sees the disk as well (I used it to create a partition table)
Am I missing a step?
Scenario: 2 HDD's. shrink partition one disk 1 to 125gig, clonezilla 125G partition image on to disk 2 as file. remove disk one and install new ssd (only one sata connection so can't have both), use gparted, run clonezilla again but only smaller partitions on hdd disk2 are listed as options for target.
Sorry if this is posted in the wrong place
Thanks, any help would be appreciated.
Is it possibly you have mistaken
restore_partition with restore_disk (to find in the list, the target) ?
Have you now formated with gparted
any smaller partition (partition should be equal or greater as befor) ?
Normally it's better to use an additional external usb drive for the image to avoid any additional errors.
- SDD partitions (according to gparted, I think at least 2 partitions are necessary)
that is entirely possible- this is my first go-round trying this. I guess since I chose to image the partition instead of disk because I needed the image to be smaller than the original disk so I could fit it on the new ssd I thought I was supposed to restore partition.
I did use gparted to create a partiton table on the new ssd, but just one partition encompassing all the available disk space.
I did shrink the original disk down to 125gig with partitioning so it would fit on the 128gig ssd.
I am at work now and will check when I get home.
fyi- the perpose of this is to clone a windows XP drive.
Thanks for your input.
Well- I finnaly got to try again. I used gparted live again and did this:
create partition table ntfs,
create partition (whole disk minus 1meg at beginning and a little space at the end,
format partition ntfs
and when I used clonezilla to restore partition the windows xp partition image it recognized the disk and restored successfully.
now to figure out why it won't actually run windows from the disk….
thanks again for your help