Cristian STANESCU

Obviously, you should first make a backup and then make tests with BIOS and Clonezilla. Could an older Clonezilla version work? Or another similar program, Rescuezilla? The "RAID" setting from BIOS should not be a problem... I use clonezilla-live-3.2.1-9-amd64.

I forgot to add that I have decided to stay with the industry standard Clonezilla!! :-)

Hello. I have tested at some time a program similar to Clonezilla, named RescueZilla. It can tweak the compression ratio (up to "z19p", which means maximum compression - but beware of the time it will take, far longer than "z9p"; the difference was that an 11GB backup made with Clonezilla had only 9GB when I made it with RescueZilla and maximum compression, "z19p" - but it took 2 hours, not 5 minutes like Clonezilla). Please note that RescueZilla does not have the posibility to clone over a local...

I tried this and it did not work. Sorry. I unplugged the internet cable but Clonezilla asked me to set the time manually.

I would be careful when restoring an image created with another (older) version of Clonezilla. I usually use THE SAME version of Clonezilla, both for creating an image (save disk) and for cloning (restore disk).

This is the main reason for which I went back to use clonezilla-live-3.2.1-9-amd64. :-) (and the second reason is that 3.2.1-9 is more stable/reliable)

Try to turn off the "safe boot" option from BIOS (probably somewhere in "security options" or advanced, you may have to search for it a little).

Hello. If I were you, I would look in the BIOS at the boot order settings! Maybe it would help to DELETE everything that shows up there and restart the computer (so that it will find the new UEFI entries; new = after clone restore). The cause/the idea: after the restore, you have a new machine, a new installation, with "new" UEFI entries!... In BIOS, the UEFI entries are not necessarily overwritten when you do a clone restore... and they are not identical! (as they probably should)