It does every thing but write to the target.
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The title says everything. Whet it gets to the write stage the activity light stops doing anything and the process stops at patrition 3 complaining that the format is not NTFS. The target has nothing written to it. It seems to be trying to write to the USB stick with the software on although I did chose the target disk when the option to choose either of the 2. There are signs of activity on the target disk until the write precess begins but nothing thereafter. After several attempts I removed the usb with the software on after the initial processes as the activity led on that was flashing but no change. I have tried with 3 different targets
I have just found 2 folders with dated file names containing about 3GB of what appears to be sme sort of log.
It msy be that the usb memory should be removed st some point because when the choice of where to mount comes up the software device is listed as sdb1 and the target is sdc1 and the next stage only offers "abort".
I am not very sure what the issue is there.
Maybe you can take some photos about all the steps you have done, so that it would be easier for us to understand your issues.
Or maybe you can boot Clonezilla live and choose the "To RAM" option in the boot menu, and when you see the language selection, unplug your USB stick, then go on.
Steven
Hi Steven, thanks for your reply. I have some progress. The removal of the USB software just before the "Start Clonezilla" removed it from the list of possible targets and then SDB was allocated to the target which then allowed some partitions to be moved to it. However, the problem of failure because the target partitions, 3 and 6, were not recognised as NTFS. This was pretty much doing as you suggested as I had always used the "To Ram " but had only later realised that the USB memory needed to be removed. I have not seen that in the instructions. The "Not NTFS" problem persists.
The target disc is a 500GB Crucial SDD.
With the help of my son it is now using the command prompt to do a disc copy which is progressing as stately 1GB /40 seconds. My computer life was way back in the days of S36 with Cobol and RPG with 24/ 80 green screens albeit post punch card days. :)
All of this is on a safe machine as the real requirement is for one with a disk which has every sign of dying so it is very much a case of get it right first time.
It seems that irrespective of the state of the target disc the problem with the NTSC remains and I tried with 4 different discs. However, my last attempt did succeed in setting up the partitions and install the data for everything apart from the Windows partition. the only success was to revert to command line after a failed attempt and use this.
SUDO DD status=progress IF=/DEV/SDA OF=/DEV/SDB BS=10M
SDB may be SDC if the boot USB was left in and it could take 4 - 10 hours depending on the size of disc.
OK, it's nice to know you have solved the issue there.
No more issues?
Steven