#42 Clonezilla restore partition failure - size discrepancy

[thedcman]

hi

I used clonezilla-live-2.2.2-37-amd64 to save an image of my windows-c partition. Explorer says that the windows c partition is 200GB.

When I try to restore the image to a partition which windows says is 217 GB, clonezilla fails every time.

When I used clonezilla to check the saved image, it says the image is fine BUT it also says that the saved image device is 215GB. The original windows-c partition is 200gb so I do not see how the saved image device says its 215GB.

note that both windows-c and the target partition i am restoring to, are not compressed.

clonezilla-live-20140415-saucy-amd64 also fails to restore the image to the new 217 GB partition.

Can anyone help?
Thanks

[thedcman]

Hi
I forgot to say I am using windows 8.1.

[Steven Shiau]

What were the error messages?

Steven.

[thedcman]

I cannot remember the exact error messages given by clonezilla when the restore failed, but I tried it a number of times and I got the same response.

I concluded that the reason for the failure was because I had an image of partition C: which i was restoring to 217GB partition I:. Am I correct in saying that clonezilla cannot restore an image from 1 partition to another partition?

[Steven Shiau]

"clonezilla cannot restore an image from 1 partition to another partition?" -> correct. There is a workaround:
http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/102_restore_image_to_different_partition.faq#102_restore_image_to_different_partition.faq

Steven.