Re: [Clonezilla-live] Restoring images on disks with different geometry

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

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The target disk can NOT be smaller than source disk, even if it's just
1% different.
Maybe you can try to use gparted
(https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=679664) to resize the
source disk, then manually create the partition in the target disk, and
when you restore it, remember to choose "-k" to skip the partition table
creation.

Regards,
Steven.

Omar Estrada wrote:
> Steven,
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion, but I still couldn't make it work.
> 
> I restored the image using both dd and sfdisk. After that, I rebooted the
> computer and, on the first try, the operating system (Windows) tried to
> boot, but then and without notice, the computer reset. On the second and
> subsequent tries, it appeared a screen saying that Windows couldn't load on
> a previous attempt and it prompted me to select a mode to boot (safe, net,
> normal, etc.); if I selected Safe Mode, it started booting up but then reset
> again.
> 
> This is the configuration of the computers (disk geometries as reported by
> FDISK):
> 
> SOURCE COMPUTER
> Disk: 80000/16/63 (CHS) LBA
> Partitions:
> - hda1: primary, bootable, NTFS, WinXP, cyls. 1-40635
> - hda2: primary, NTFS, empty, cyls. 40636-60636
> 
> DESTINATION COMPUTER
> Disk: 77545/16/63 (CHS) LBA
> 
> Notice that even though the size of the destination disk is slightly smaller
> than the source one, the partitions should fit in the destination disk.
> 
> I would appreciate if somebody could give a hint on what to try next.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Omar Estrada
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Shiau [mailto:st...@nc...] 
> Sent: Miércoles, 25 de Abril de 2007 11:55 a.m.
> To: Omar Estrada
> Cc: clo...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Restoring images on disks with different
> geometry
> 
> Yes, it can be done, but you might will have this problem:
> http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=23_Missing_O
> S.faq
> 
> Good luck.
> Steven.
> 
> Omar Estrada wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have some test machines which we use to perform tests on clean systems.
>>> The idea is to create images of just-installed Windows and Linux systems,
>>> create an image, work with them, and later, when required, restore the
>>> just-installed image. However, the machines have disks with different
>>> geometry.
>>> I would like to know if it is possible to restore a partition/disk image
> on
>>> another disk. For example, suppose that a disk has the following
>>> configuration:
>>>
>>> CONFIGURATION 1
>>>
>>> Disk size: 80 GB
>>> Boot loader: GRUB
>>> Partition 1 (primary, 15 GB, bootable): Windows XP
>>> Partition 2 (extended, 65 GB)
>>> Partition 3 (logical, 15 GB): Linux
>>> Partition 4 (logical, 5 GB): Windows Vista
>>> Partition 5 (logical, 15 GB): Empty/unused
>>> (Unallocated space 30 GB)
>>>
>>> Suppose also that I create images of each partition.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to restore the image of partition 1 (WinXP) on a disk
>>> with a different geometry (but with the same partition layout)? What about
>>> restoring the whole disk image? Should I need to tweak the stored MBR?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Omar Estrada
>>>
>>>
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