For years I’ve used external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: make two partitions, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition to store the images. Then I use tuxboot to install Clonezilla on the fat32 partition. Then I restart the pc and boot to the Clonezilla partition and make a drive image of whatever other drive and store it on the ntsf partition, or restore an image from the ntsf partition to whatever drive. I regularly do this on various Windows pcs XP, Vista, Win7, Win8, Win10, all either 32 or 64bit. I just bought a WD My Passport 2 TB and everything goes fine but it will not boot to Clonezilla connected to any usb on any pc as my other external drives do. The only response is that no os was found. I’ve reformatted and reinstalled various Clonezilla versions. I ran WD diagnostics. I’ve used different cables. So how do I fix this?
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"a WD My Passport 2 TB and everything goes fine but it will not boot to Clonezilla connected to any usb on any pc as my other external drives do. " -> Did you mean you put Clonezilla live on your WD disk and it won't be able to boot into Clonezilla live?
If so, did you try the manual method shown in http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php
?
Steven
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BTW, please try your WD external disk on different machines, or upgrade your BIOS firmware. Sometimes the issue is on the BIOS.
Steven
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Anonymous
Anonymous
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2018-07-25
Hello,
I'm experiencing the exact same issue with the exact same drive, and I have performed the steps listed in the Clonezilla site.
I have also used the program called Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.7.7 to create the bootable drive. Keep in mind, I've formatted the 2TB Drive in FAT32 as required. During the process, the application stated that it will not be Bootable because the Format is FAT32, not Fat32. It doesn't make a difference.
What I've found though, in manually running the makeboot.bat file, is that it cannot write the whole boot sector.
I've tried running it from CMD as an administrator with the -sfmar switch that's mentioned in the notes on a successful attempt.
Because the 2TB drive is larger than most USB Drives, it must have a larger MBR than most drives.
What's peculiar, is this drive boots in UEFI mode, but not under legacy USB settings. On UEFI Compliant systems, it boots right into the default Clonezilla live interface. On older systems that are not UEFI Compliant, it boots into a blinking underscore and will not go any further.
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So have you tried to use tuxboot to create the USB flash drive?
Not working?
Steven
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Anonymous
Anonymous
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2019-07-06
Hello, same problem - now it's July 2019. I've used Tuxboot to create the Clonezilla USB, used the manual settings so I could see what it was doing, cloned correctly. I've gone into the boot order and excluded the original drive (which is still in machine) and moved the clone drive to be the first boot device. I've gone into Win7 control panel and set the cloned drive letter to E. I'm getting the "No boot found" found error. I'm guessing that even if I pull the drive I'll still get that error since when I exclude the original drive it doesn't boot at all (so it isn't finding it). Any one solve this one?
PS - Using a Lenovo laptop model T60 (yes I know it is old, but with a SSD it is still a workhorse and fast).
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For years I’ve used external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: make two partitions, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition to store the images. Then I use tuxboot to install Clonezilla on the fat32 partition. Then I restart the pc and boot to the Clonezilla partition and make a drive image of whatever other drive and store it on the ntsf partition, or restore an image from the ntsf partition to whatever drive. I regularly do this on various Windows pcs XP, Vista, Win7, Win8, Win10, all either 32 or 64bit. I just bought a WD My Passport 2 TB and everything goes fine but it will not boot to Clonezilla connected to any usb on any pc as my other external drives do. The only response is that no os was found. I’ve reformatted and reinstalled various Clonezilla versions. I ran WD diagnostics. I’ve used different cables. So how do I fix this?
"a WD My Passport 2 TB and everything goes fine but it will not boot to Clonezilla connected to any usb on any pc as my other external drives do. " -> Did you mean you put Clonezilla live on your WD disk and it won't be able to boot into Clonezilla live?
If so, did you try the manual method shown in
http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php
?
Steven
BTW, please try your WD external disk on different machines, or upgrade your BIOS firmware. Sometimes the issue is on the BIOS.
Steven
Hello,
I'm experiencing the exact same issue with the exact same drive, and I have performed the steps listed in the Clonezilla site.
I have also used the program called Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.7.7 to create the bootable drive. Keep in mind, I've formatted the 2TB Drive in FAT32 as required. During the process, the application stated that it will not be Bootable because the Format is FAT32, not Fat32. It doesn't make a difference.
What I've found though, in manually running the makeboot.bat file, is that it cannot write the whole boot sector.
I've tried running it from CMD as an administrator with the -sfmar switch that's mentioned in the notes on a successful attempt.
Because the 2TB drive is larger than most USB Drives, it must have a larger MBR than most drives.
What's peculiar, is this drive boots in UEFI mode, but not under legacy USB settings. On UEFI Compliant systems, it boots right into the default Clonezilla live interface. On older systems that are not UEFI Compliant, it boots into a blinking underscore and will not go any further.
So have you tried to use tuxboot to create the USB flash drive?
Not working?
Steven
Hello, same problem - now it's July 2019. I've used Tuxboot to create the Clonezilla USB, used the manual settings so I could see what it was doing, cloned correctly. I've gone into the boot order and excluded the original drive (which is still in machine) and moved the clone drive to be the first boot device. I've gone into Win7 control panel and set the cloned drive letter to E. I'm getting the "No boot found" found error. I'm guessing that even if I pull the drive I'll still get that error since when I exclude the original drive it doesn't boot at all (so it isn't finding it). Any one solve this one?
PS - Using a Lenovo laptop model T60 (yes I know it is old, but with a SSD it is still a workhorse and fast).