I'm cloning a laptop hard drive that just started producing SMART warnings to a new hard drive. System is an older laptop with dual boot Mandriva 2011 and Windows 7. I used the newest alternative branch Clonezilla live 20210127-groovy-amd64.
Last page of on-screen messages during the cloning process said:
Test if we can chroot the restored OS partition /dev/sdb3...
Yes, we are able to chroot the restored OS partition /dev/sdb3 The tool to update initramfs was not found in the function do_run_update_initrd_from_restored_OS.
What does this last line, that was in red, mean? Unfortunately I was really tired and shut down the computer before looking at the log.
Also concerned about what these next lines mean:
Running: run_ntfsreloc_Part -p "sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb6" auto
The NTFS boot partition was not found or not among the restored partition(s). Skip running partclone.ntfsfixboot.
Currently using BIOS/MBR on this laptop to accommodate the old Linux distro I need for work for a while longer. I used the amd64 version of Clonezilla thinking it would preserve the UEFI information since I will eventually remove the old Linux distro and will probably want the UEFI capability for Windows 7. Should I be using the i686 version to clone instead? Is this version missing the Windows boot partition somehow?
I haven't installed the clone in the laptop to see if it boots yet, since I've never seen this sort of error message before. I've imaged this drive many times in the past with different Clonezilla Live versions, and imaging didn't produce any errors...always said image is restorable. Not that I've ever tried to restore one of those images..
Thank you in advance for your help!
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Both messages are about tuning the restored OS. Look like all the file systems were correctly restored, just some more polish about the restore OS are not done due to the following reasons:
1. I believe it's due to your Mandriva 2011 is too old, so the command like dracut or update-initramfs was not found in the restored OS. Hence its initrd can not be updated. However, normally this is harmless since for GNU/Linux most of the required kernel modules are put in its initrd.
2. As for the run_ntfsreloc_part related message, as it mentioned, looks like your file systems on Win7 is FAT, not NTFS? If so, that's correct, and there is no need to run partclone.ntfsfixboot since they are not NTFS.
Steven
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Thanks! And yes, I just checked and Win7 file system partition is FAT32.
I've been reading the FAQ about Win7 cloning, and since I don't have a Win7 installation disk, should I enable AHCI in Win7 and clone it again to ensure it will boot?
And if so, is the 20210127-groovy-amd64 version the best to use for this laptop, which has second gen Intel i5-2310M processor and OEM 64-bit Win7.
The hard drive has just started making noises that indicate it has not long to live, so I'm trying to avoid taking it out of the laptop case until I'm as sure as I can be that I have a clone with a bootable Win7 on the new disk. Not as concerned about the Mandriva as I can re-install that.
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"Should I enable AHCI in Win7 and clone it again to ensure it will boot?" -> You can try that. Actually I am not very sure.
"is the 20210127-groovy-amd64 version the best to use for this laptop," -> Well, I believe so. If not, you can give Clonezilla live 2.7.1-22 a try: https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
I suggest you backup important data first. Then try to use different versions of Clonezilla if you have any issues.
Steven
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Thanks Steven. This is my thesis computer and I have it backed up six ways to Sunday. I have images in at least 8 different versions of Clonezilla, and daily data backups in 2 physical locations and one in the cloud. I always carry a full data backup and the latest Clonezilla image with me in my backpack whenever I leave my computer. No chance of data loss.
What I'm concerned about is losing access to the OEM Win7 ( which MS is making a real trick to repair if you lose boot/system files), and a lot of old specialty data analysis software that's on Mandriva and would be a time-consuming (if even possible) nightmare to move to a modern distro, especially when I'm under a huge time crunch to finish this project.
The hard disk is crapping out fast, though...the bad sector count is increasing at an alarming rate...so I don't want to try to clone it too many more times.
In the past I have used the i586 version of Clonezilla to successfully clone the Mandriva partition on another computer, which is why I was asking about using the i686PAE version of Clonezilla to clone this entire dual boot Win7/Mandriva 2011 computer. It would be great to capture the Windows boot software, as well as the dual boot code. When I examined the partitions being cloned using another computer, it turns out the latest Clonezilla versions aren't saving the Win7 system files.
Would appreciate any advice. Thanks again!
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Hi,
I'm cloning a laptop hard drive that just started producing SMART warnings to a new hard drive. System is an older laptop with dual boot Mandriva 2011 and Windows 7. I used the newest alternative branch Clonezilla live 20210127-groovy-amd64.
Last page of on-screen messages during the cloning process said:
Test if we can chroot the restored OS partition /dev/sdb3...
Yes, we are able to chroot the restored OS partition /dev/sdb3
The tool to update initramfs was not found in the function do_run_update_initrd_from_restored_OS.
What does this last line, that was in red, mean? Unfortunately I was really tired and shut down the computer before looking at the log.
Also concerned about what these next lines mean:
Running: run_ntfsreloc_Part -p "sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb6" auto
The NTFS boot partition was not found or not among the restored partition(s). Skip running partclone.ntfsfixboot.
Currently using BIOS/MBR on this laptop to accommodate the old Linux distro I need for work for a while longer. I used the amd64 version of Clonezilla thinking it would preserve the UEFI information since I will eventually remove the old Linux distro and will probably want the UEFI capability for Windows 7. Should I be using the i686 version to clone instead? Is this version missing the Windows boot partition somehow?
I haven't installed the clone in the laptop to see if it boots yet, since I've never seen this sort of error message before. I've imaged this drive many times in the past with different Clonezilla Live versions, and imaging didn't produce any errors...always said image is restorable. Not that I've ever tried to restore one of those images..
Thank you in advance for your help!
Both messages are about tuning the restored OS. Look like all the file systems were correctly restored, just some more polish about the restore OS are not done due to the following reasons:
1. I believe it's due to your Mandriva 2011 is too old, so the command like dracut or update-initramfs was not found in the restored OS. Hence its initrd can not be updated. However, normally this is harmless since for GNU/Linux most of the required kernel modules are put in its initrd.
2. As for the run_ntfsreloc_part related message, as it mentioned, looks like your file systems on Win7 is FAT, not NTFS? If so, that's correct, and there is no need to run partclone.ntfsfixboot since they are not NTFS.
Steven
Thanks! And yes, I just checked and Win7 file system partition is FAT32.
I've been reading the FAQ about Win7 cloning, and since I don't have a Win7 installation disk, should I enable AHCI in Win7 and clone it again to ensure it will boot?
And if so, is the 20210127-groovy-amd64 version the best to use for this laptop, which has second gen Intel i5-2310M processor and OEM 64-bit Win7.
The hard drive has just started making noises that indicate it has not long to live, so I'm trying to avoid taking it out of the laptop case until I'm as sure as I can be that I have a clone with a bootable Win7 on the new disk. Not as concerned about the Mandriva as I can re-install that.
"Should I enable AHCI in Win7 and clone it again to ensure it will boot?" -> You can try that. Actually I am not very sure.
"is the 20210127-groovy-amd64 version the best to use for this laptop," -> Well, I believe so. If not, you can give Clonezilla live 2.7.1-22 a try:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
I suggest you backup important data first. Then try to use different versions of Clonezilla if you have any issues.
Steven
Thanks Steven. This is my thesis computer and I have it backed up six ways to Sunday. I have images in at least 8 different versions of Clonezilla, and daily data backups in 2 physical locations and one in the cloud. I always carry a full data backup and the latest Clonezilla image with me in my backpack whenever I leave my computer. No chance of data loss.
What I'm concerned about is losing access to the OEM Win7 ( which MS is making a real trick to repair if you lose boot/system files), and a lot of old specialty data analysis software that's on Mandriva and would be a time-consuming (if even possible) nightmare to move to a modern distro, especially when I'm under a huge time crunch to finish this project.
The hard disk is crapping out fast, though...the bad sector count is increasing at an alarming rate...so I don't want to try to clone it too many more times.
In the past I have used the i586 version of Clonezilla to successfully clone the Mandriva partition on another computer, which is why I was asking about using the i686PAE version of Clonezilla to clone this entire dual boot Win7/Mandriva 2011 computer. It would be great to capture the Windows boot software, as well as the dual boot code. When I examined the partitions being cloned using another computer, it turns out the latest Clonezilla versions aren't saving the Win7 system files.
Would appreciate any advice. Thanks again!
I would suggest that if the old version of Clonezilla live works for you, keep using it for your Mandriva/Win7.
Steven