Unable to clone drive with rescuezilla lately
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I used Rescuezilla 2.5.1 64-bit version to clone a HDD to SSD. The source is the HDD, the target is a somewhat larger SSD. I start a clone-job which takes about 13 minutes. After the process the cloned disk starts to boot and the computer hangs after a few seconds. I repeated the job, the result is the same.
I tried the same job using AOMEI partition assistant 10.7 standard, the cloning took about 4 hours and the cloned disk booted without problems. This disk could boot on a different computer as an external disk connected through a SATA to USB-C converter cable.. The cloned OS was TuxedoOS.
My last thought is that my Rescuzilla SD-card got damaged.
I tried several different setups and used 2 different computers with Gigabyte motherboards. The cloned disks could not boot from the SATA connections - SGX inhibited the boot. I connected the cloned disk through an converter cable to a USB-A connector on the same computer and the boot went without problems. There is a setting in the BIOS for SGX with 3 diff. settings none of them worked. I repeated the procedure on a HP computer - the clone could boot through the SATA connection. I assume that the Gigabyte BIOS have a flaw. There is no support for these BIOS any more.
EDIT by Rescuezilla: Remove this comment's unintentional 4-space leading indent causing Markdown codeblock formatting
Last edit: Rescuezilla 2025-03-23