HI. I am not having much luck cloning some win 8.1 machines.
A toshiba protege z30. Set to uefi boot in the bios.
With win 8 it has multiple partitions.
The laptops have the retail version install, (oem wiped), so even though there is only one visible partition, there are infact 4.
Do I do a image of the entire disk, or the partitions option when saving with Clonezilla?
If I do the image of the whole disk, then when restoring the toshiba I get an error '0xEE partition sector doesn't start at sector 1'. 'unable to find target partition sda1.
If I do the partitions option in the save, and then selecting the partitions option when restoring, then when booting up after restoring it I get a winload.efi missing or corrupt error! Which appears to be related to the drive letter association by the looks in the command window.
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Normally there are hidden partitions, but it sounds like you wiped the drive already. So normallly you should be using the whole drive if you did that, which I wouldn't do since you can recover from the oem hidden partitions. Windows also creates a hidden partition, well windows 7 does. I haven't bother with windows 8 since I don't have one and don't like their interface. Now as for the drive, I would normally image the whole drive so that I can just put the whole thing back and be back in business instead of doing partitions which can get to be a bit too much when managing this stuff.
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HI
Yes I wiped the drive, we don't want all the bloatware and want the full capacity of the 120gb ssd drive. Well it loses some of that even in the formatting.
Ok, so imaging the whole drive, I get the partition sector error. What am I doing wrong?
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I was just reading about ssd's last night since I'm thinking of getting one. I don't have one, but two things come to mind. One has to do with the bios setting. I remember reading about that when they first came out and how you had to make a change in the bios so that they would be picked up. Can't remember exactly what that was though. The other thing is that you should do a clean install and not try to image from an old platter drive to an ssd because that will give you other issues. I'm not sure if it's what's causing yours but just something to think about. And I know you just want to image the original drive. Unfortunately I haven't tried that because I wanted to give the ssd drives more time to mature. Well I guess they have gotten better but my old drives still work so I haven't changed to ssd yet.
I just re-read your first post, and I think the setting had to do with the UEFI, so try changing that before booting with the disk. You're not trying to boot windows up anyway. Although since you already wiped the drive I would just start over with a new install on the ssd and skip the headache with the four partitions. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
Last edit: efx26 2015-03-12
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HI. I am not having much luck cloning some win 8.1 machines.
A toshiba protege z30. Set to uefi boot in the bios.
With win 8 it has multiple partitions.
The laptops have the retail version install, (oem wiped), so even though there is only one visible partition, there are infact 4.
Do I do a image of the entire disk, or the partitions option when saving with Clonezilla?
If I do the image of the whole disk, then when restoring the toshiba I get an error '0xEE partition sector doesn't start at sector 1'. 'unable to find target partition sda1.
If I do the partitions option in the save, and then selecting the partitions option when restoring, then when booting up after restoring it I get a winload.efi missing or corrupt error! Which appears to be related to the drive letter association by the looks in the command window.
Normally there are hidden partitions, but it sounds like you wiped the drive already. So normallly you should be using the whole drive if you did that, which I wouldn't do since you can recover from the oem hidden partitions. Windows also creates a hidden partition, well windows 7 does. I haven't bother with windows 8 since I don't have one and don't like their interface. Now as for the drive, I would normally image the whole drive so that I can just put the whole thing back and be back in business instead of doing partitions which can get to be a bit too much when managing this stuff.
HI
Yes I wiped the drive, we don't want all the bloatware and want the full capacity of the 120gb ssd drive. Well it loses some of that even in the formatting.
Ok, so imaging the whole drive, I get the partition sector error. What am I doing wrong?
I was just reading about ssd's last night since I'm thinking of getting one. I don't have one, but two things come to mind. One has to do with the bios setting. I remember reading about that when they first came out and how you had to make a change in the bios so that they would be picked up. Can't remember exactly what that was though. The other thing is that you should do a clean install and not try to image from an old platter drive to an ssd because that will give you other issues. I'm not sure if it's what's causing yours but just something to think about. And I know you just want to image the original drive. Unfortunately I haven't tried that because I wanted to give the ssd drives more time to mature. Well I guess they have gotten better but my old drives still work so I haven't changed to ssd yet.
I just re-read your first post, and I think the setting had to do with the UEFI, so try changing that before booting with the disk. You're not trying to boot windows up anyway. Although since you already wiped the drive I would just start over with a new install on the ssd and skip the headache with the four partitions. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
Last edit: efx26 2015-03-12
If anyone of you has solved this issue, please share.
Thanks.
Steven.