Hey everyone. Today my SSD disk (primary Windows 7 OS disk) did some weird things and for awhile I thought I lost it. I decided it might be in my best interest to make an image of my hard drive in case I need to replace it, to avoid having to reinstall all my programs and such. I have tried both the stable and testing version of the LiveCD CloneZilla at this point and have encountered the same issue both ways. As I proceed through the prompts to make an image from my disk, only my external USB hard drive is selectable as an option. This IS where I want to SAVE the image. So I keep proceeding through the prompts, and when it comes time to select the disk I want to make an image of, it errors out on me claiming there are no available unmounted disks. I exited CloneZilla to the command prompt, switched to root, and ran fdisk -l, and it ONLY lists my USB External Hard drive. It does not list either of my internal hard drives (one SSD through SATA, and one 1TB 7200RPM drive through SATA). I also tried switching my BIOS from treating SATA drives as IDE to AHCI, and this did not help either.
Can anyone give some advice on what I might be doing wrong here? It would be most appreciated.
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Maybe the kernel does not support your hardware very well.
Did you try alternative testing Clonezilla live? If not, please give Clonezilla live 20110721-natty a try. It comes with different kernel, so maybe it helps.
Steven.
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Hey everyone. Today my SSD disk (primary Windows 7 OS disk) did some weird things and for awhile I thought I lost it. I decided it might be in my best interest to make an image of my hard drive in case I need to replace it, to avoid having to reinstall all my programs and such. I have tried both the stable and testing version of the LiveCD CloneZilla at this point and have encountered the same issue both ways. As I proceed through the prompts to make an image from my disk, only my external USB hard drive is selectable as an option. This IS where I want to SAVE the image. So I keep proceeding through the prompts, and when it comes time to select the disk I want to make an image of, it errors out on me claiming there are no available unmounted disks. I exited CloneZilla to the command prompt, switched to root, and ran fdisk -l, and it ONLY lists my USB External Hard drive. It does not list either of my internal hard drives (one SSD through SATA, and one 1TB 7200RPM drive through SATA). I also tried switching my BIOS from treating SATA drives as IDE to AHCI, and this did not help either.
Can anyone give some advice on what I might be doing wrong here? It would be most appreciated.
Maybe the kernel does not support your hardware very well.
Did you try alternative testing Clonezilla live? If not, please give Clonezilla live 20110721-natty a try. It comes with different kernel, so maybe it helps.
Steven.