Stéphan RICHARD

well seen! The PC was a company PC, it had been reset from the factory but, indeed, it was encrypted. I decrypted it and the image now fits in a little less than 20 GB. Thank you all for your help 👍 . stephan

Hello, the fact is that I didn't have an external hard drive. So I plugged an old 3.5" IDE hard drive into a USB adapter. with this 180 Go disk the image came in in 1h00 with a size of 73GB. This is the size of the data on the Source disk. I used the default compression of beginner mode. Well in the end it worked but I still don't know why the image is so big. For comparison the last image I made of a new Windows 10 PC was only about twenty GB ... well the main thing is that it worked. Thanks for...

I made a print screen of my files navigator on wich you can see that my USB is full and there is some files AA, AB, AC ... each of these files are 4go because of the fat32 format .

Hello Jeremy, thank you for your help . Was your 64GB USB key substantially empty (or not) before you started? yes of course, freshly formatted in fat Which compression method did you use? I tried the both proposed in beginner mode : z9p and z1p . the results was the same You would expect a USB key to be slow at writing - although 30 hours would likely indicate a USB2 connection. indeed, I'm on USB2 but it's not really a problem that it's so long. I'd just like to understand why this image takes...

Hello all, I am not at my first attempt with clonezilla. I have already made images, restored images on HDD etc and it always went very well by always using beginner mode. Today and despite a few attempts I cannot fit the partition image of my SSD on my 64 GB USB key. It is too small, the process is aborted at only 15%. I use a USB key in live session with clonezilla version 3.1.3.16 The SSD is 500 GB, Windows 10 is installed on it, it is a brand new installation with only the office pack installed...