I started off with the need to clone the laptop drive to the new SSD and decided to use clonezilla. I have a small laptop with a 512 gig SSD (M.2 NVME). There is no way to mount another SSD in the chassis so I used an external usb enclosure to attach a 4 Tb M.2 NVME disk. The system has UEFI so I happily put clonezilla on a usb stick, booted everything into RAM, and told Clonezilla which disk to clone where.
The first issue that I saw was that the cloning process became very slow, down to about 35 MB/min at the end but within two days it did complete. At that point Clonezilla gave me fsync error 5 and that my cloning failed. I powered the system off, disconnected the usb enclosure, booted into win 10 and was relieved that the SSD in my laptop was OK. But when I re-connected the enclosure, windows refused to recognize any disk in the enclosure. Disk Management shows no drive and diskpart does not know about the SSD in the enclosure.
I tried hooking up the enclosure to another PC but again the SSD is not showing up in any management tool.
My main question is how do I regain access to my SSD?
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Replying to my own thread. The answer was that the SSD was connected using a usb3/usbC enclosure but went through usb3/usbA cable and so the pcie pass-through did not seem to work right. Direct connection of enclosure to thunderbolt via proper cable made mirroring work, no slowdowns and the new SSD is now fully functional. Whew. This stuff is really tricky to get right.
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I started off with the need to clone the laptop drive to the new SSD and decided to use clonezilla. I have a small laptop with a 512 gig SSD (M.2 NVME). There is no way to mount another SSD in the chassis so I used an external usb enclosure to attach a 4 Tb M.2 NVME disk. The system has UEFI so I happily put clonezilla on a usb stick, booted everything into RAM, and told Clonezilla which disk to clone where.
The first issue that I saw was that the cloning process became very slow, down to about 35 MB/min at the end but within two days it did complete. At that point Clonezilla gave me fsync error 5 and that my cloning failed. I powered the system off, disconnected the usb enclosure, booted into win 10 and was relieved that the SSD in my laptop was OK. But when I re-connected the enclosure, windows refused to recognize any disk in the enclosure. Disk Management shows no drive and diskpart does not know about the SSD in the enclosure.
I tried hooking up the enclosure to another PC but again the SSD is not showing up in any management tool.
My main question is how do I regain access to my SSD?
Replying to my own thread. The answer was that the SSD was connected using a usb3/usbC enclosure but went through usb3/usbA cable and so the pcie pass-through did not seem to work right. Direct connection of enclosure to thunderbolt via proper cable made mirroring work, no slowdowns and the new SSD is now fully functional. Whew. This stuff is really tricky to get right.
Great. Thanks for sharing that.
Steven