Mark Lavin

Chuck, I followed the instructions in "check-your-hard-disk...": the program reported no problems on the Windows 7 drive, nor on the USB external drive (the latter ran VERY fast, I guess because it has only the two largish broken image files). I guess I'll just try, try again.

Progress, but not all there yet: I reformatted the 4TB drive several times, the last using diskmgr, and it appears to have used some extended format because the drive was partitioned into one partition for the entire 4TB. With that, I have actually been able to successfully mount /home/partimag on the 4TB drive, and then proceed to write the image of my C: drive to the 4TB drive. However, when I ran the post-write check, and in a separate stand-alone check, the check encountered a CRC error at block_id=1488834....

Chuck, I managed to use Rufus to create a bootable volume containing CloneZilla on an old 16GB memory stick. That booted fine, and once it did, I started CloneZilla; I pulled out the 16GB stick just to make sure I didn't try to write on it. CloneZilla proceeded until the point where I was asked to select the device to mount /home/partimag, I was given three choices: sda1: The 512GB HDD that I'm trying to make an image of. sdc1: Funny name like ...128MB_MS_... sdc2: The new 4TB USB drive I chose sdc2...

Progress, but not quite there: Rufus now is working for me, producing a bootable USB drive. It turns out that I had to make one modification to get the drive to boot: I had to change the image mode from ISO to DD. Once I did that, I was able to boot up from the USB drive (after changing the boot order to go to the USB drive first). And then... CloneZilla came up! I started following the instructions there and got to the final (I think...) "are you sure you want to continue (y/n)" BUT then the actual...

Chuck, I downloaded Rufus and fired it up, and I have the Rufus 3.10.1647 window open. I see under BOOT SELECTION that it's asking for file (e.g., ubuntu...iso). I don't know what file it's looking for, nor where to get it. I did download CloneZilla itself, but that's a .zip file that I extracted to my USB drive (the volume I want to make bootable), but I don't know if that's relevant? Can you explain further?

I've followed the instructions for installing and using Clonezilla, unpacking the .zip file onto my USB "E:" drive running the \utils\win64\syslinux64 -d \syslinux -sfmar E: command, verifying that this copies ldlinux.c32 and ldlinux.sys onto E:\syslinux, then restarting my computer (a Windows 7 laptop), and interrupting the startup to specify the boot device. At that point, I get a DOS-style menu with entries * ATAPI CD0: * ATA HDD0: * USB HDD: * PCI LAN: I select the USB HDD: entry and hit <enter>,...