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CloneZilla is a free cloning/imaging tool that creates and restores snapshots. It can also be used for mass deployment.

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Clonezilla image not found

So I cloned a flash drive to image with clonezilla using my /dev/sdc2 mounted as /home/partimag After the process, I shutdown my PC to do something else only to return unable to find the image I ...
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CloneZilla - Overwrote or Corrupted System Partition

My friend was using CloneZilla to mirror his HDD (Windows 7). He selected Partition to Partition He selected Source: Primary Partition (C:) Then he accidentally selected Destination: System ...
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Clonezilla disk check incredibly slow

I am doing backup of my entire disk to image stored on another HDD connected via USB. Creating images went relatively fast (~700-1000 MB/min) but checking afterwards is slooow: 7MB/min. Which means ~...
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Windows 10 image from Clonezilla comes up in GMT-1

Mixed Win8.1 / Win10 shop, Linux infrastructure. Jenkins runs machines; OS, apps, drivers, Clonezilla supplies OS images. Images installed by PXE boot/Jenkins coercing it. With release of Win10, co-...
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Cloning Ubuntu mdadm RAID1

I would like to clone a pair of RAID1 drives created with mdadm. I've tried Clonezilla, but there's no native support for mdadm, so it resorts to using dd which is incredibly slow. I've looked for ...
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How can I join non-consecutive partitions on internal hard disk?

I recently installed a new, larger hard disk in my PC at work (the office wouldn't spring for an upgrade for my 75GB disk, so I brought my own 2TB disk in from home). I managed to clone the original ...
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macOS can't boot, shows 'prohibitory' symbol after using Clonezilla

How are you? I have a MacBook Pro Mid-2012 (A1278) running Yosemite 10.10.5 + Bootcamp (Windows 10). I mostly use the Windows partition, and rarely use macOS. THE PROBLEM I tried to clone the internal ...
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Any one succeed to [clone a Rocky linux 9 disk image and restore to a new machine] by using Clonezilla Live?

I am trying to backup my Rocky Linux 9 disk image and restore it to an other newer machine with same size SSD by using Clonezilla Live 3.0.3-22. My Rocky 9 Linux was installed by default partition (...
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(Windows 10 + GParted) How do I rearrange disk partitions to I can merge free space to my main partition?

I had a 120 GB SSD with my OS, some software, and some files. I used Clonezilla to make a proportional clone on a 1 TB SSD. Now, the 1 TB SSD shows the following partitions: System Reserved: 500 MB ...
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Fully clone your system from a SATA device to a NVMe device

I am working on a laptop with a 500 GB SSD, dual booting on Windows and Ubuntu. I recently bought a Samsung 960 EVO m.2 NVMe 500 GB SSD and installed it successfully. However, given the faster ...
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Cloned CentOS not booting up

I recently cloned a CentOS6 environment from 1TB HDD and intended to restore its image to a 4 TB space. I used Clonezilla for this. The clone went successful, but after that when I tried to restore ...
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Test Clonezilla image recovery

I have successfully created a backup image of my laptop's hard drive using CloneZilla. Before making system changes I want to verify that the backup is fully restorable and can be booted from. I have ...
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clonezilla image home directory /home/partimag is not a mounting point to a samba server?

theI just got clonezilla to try it out and I keep having problems with this specific area. To be aware, I am doing this off of virtualbox and saving the image to be samba physical server, and all of ...
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How to restore partition table, when restoring entire disk using Clonezilla?

I created an image of my entire disk, just after purchasing my laptop, using CloneZilla. The disk image was created with the graphical version of CloneZilla, but in the logfile clonezilla-img, it says ...
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How to make a Bootable CD from a HDD image

The title says the idea, i need to make my ubuntu server and all the modifications & instalations i do on it be imaged into a CD, with the idea, of course of use this CD to install the clone in ...
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Ubuntu Server 13.10 With Clonezilla SE

I have installed Clonezilla SE on my system. When I run "sudo clonezilla start" the program begins, however, it seems to be the Clonezilla live version and not the SE version. I have installed drbl ...
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partclone, ntfsclone, partimage, G4L: compatibility and feature set

I have a very specific use case for which I am looking into Linux-based backup solutions that can be used to back up (not necessarily clone) and restore a Windows system (XP through 8.1 must be ...
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Clonezilla Disk too Small when it isn't

I took a 320 gig hard drive, shrunk the partition for Windows to 40 gigabytes, and cloned the partition. I'm trying to restore onto a 250 gig drive. I keep getting either a failed partition table, or ...
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Creating Images for OS deployment

We are looking to start creating images of our workstations to use when deploying workstations or to speed up restorations of existing workstations. I've been doing some research into this and the ...
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Configuring Windows Boot Manager w/ GRUB2 and Clonezilla

One of my work tasks is to configure the computers that ship in our products with Windows OS images (Embedded and OEM) with a restore partition. I have been using Clonezilla Live with GRUB2 to ...
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Can Clonezilla make SSD image with deleted files?

I just deleted a very important file on an NTFS formatted SSD and need to recover it. Before starting recovery, I would like to make a disk image with all data on the disk, just in case I make ...
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Why can't I boot from my cloned drive?

I am trying to replace an HDD with a SSD on an old Samsung Series 5 Ultra. I have tried cloning the drive multiple ways: Tried with Macrium - drive wouldn't boot and got stuck in a loop restarting ...
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Clonezilla error creating image from encrypted SSD: LUKS header file not found

I'm trying to create a full-disk image with Clonezilla alternative stable - 20221103-kinetic (Ubuntu-based) of my Dell XPS 15 7590. The notebook has only Ubuntu 22.04, standard partitioning. The disk ...
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Clone RAID 1 array to single HDD - Linux (OpenSuse)

I have a server with a hardware made RAID 1 array (Adaptec board). The array is composed of 2 SSD and the OS id OpenSuse Linux. I want to clone the array on a single SSD and make it bootable. I ...
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CORSAIR Strafe Causing No Beep/Video POST Loop?

If this is the wrong Stack Exchange to post this in, please let me know so I can ask the correct community. Today I successfully cloned a Windows 10 installation from an HDD to a Samsung 980 NVMe SSD ...
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Migrate from SATA (over M2) ssd to nvme (over M2) ssd with clonezilla

I have a laptop with two drives: one is magnetic (1TB) used for data (and some windows folders) , the other is a little ssd (128GB) used for OSes (win10 and xubuntu). Now what I'm trying to do is ...
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Clone win 10 with tpm and bitlocker to bigger disk

I got a new PC for a job, the situation is that I'm not a windows administrator and I have several limitation in using needed software without admin rights. the volume is encrypted with bitlocker, I ...
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Clonezilla automated backup

I'm looking for a solution to backup a Ubuntu server. I've tried Acronis 12.5 backups where I installed an agent on Ubuntu and backups were managed in the cloud. This didn't work out well. Couldn't ...
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clonezilla boot and data on same SSD

I have a couple of work machines (win and linux) that I use for development, each with <500GB SSD storage, and a pair of USB-C 1TB drives to use for backup. These machines (especially the linux) ...
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Decrypt LUKS FDE Disk image

So, I screwed up my system with a risky dist --upgrade to the point where it won't boot. It's not the end of the world, because I have a recent backup, however there are a couple of files from the ...
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Clonezilla failed to clone restore partition/resize issue

I'm trying to clone a Windows 10 Home system (250Gb SSD) on another larger SSD (480Gb) I tought I should have no issues given source/destination sizes but when the cloning finished I've been reported ...
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Using Clonezilla properly for backing up two physical disks, three OSes, to single USB drive

Never really used Clonezilla before and the guides I'm finding aren't exactly helpful for my setup. They are typically: 1 drive, 1 OS, to 1 backup drive. I have two physical SSDs in my laptop. One of ...
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Restoring Clonezilla clone images from 2nd partition of USB drive

I know I'm doing 99% of this correct... because 99% of it is working. I made a 64GB USB drive with 2 partitions: 1. FAT32 300MB for Clonezilla Live 2. NTFS 57GB for my clone images I altered ...
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Have Clonezilla in one LiveUSB partition, while leaving remaining space for image files

I have a 128 gig USB drive I want to use as both a Clonezilla Live USB, and also for the storage of images. im deploying windows 10 - already got a sysprepted image (thanks for the advice though)
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Issues cloning MacOS drive into smaller one

I am trying to move my OS X install to a smaller disk because I plan to move to another OS, but this is taking much longer than planned so I hope someone can help me here. The SSD that now holds OS X ...
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How can I clone a boot drive onto a larger disk using Clonezilla?

I am installing a new internal hard drive into my computer that is larger than the old drive. The complication is that the old drive has the operating system partition on it. I want to clone the ...
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Clonezilla sees external USB drive, but won't offer it as destination in partition to partition clone?

I'm trying to clone a single bootable partition on my Ubuntu Linux 16.04 system to a new SSD in an external USB container. I want the new SSD drive to be bootable. Clonezilla definitely sees the ...
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Restored Windows Vista Recovery Partition Image not booting - clonezilla

I've followed the first two of these guides from clonezilla.org, but: applied to a Windows Vista Recovery partition; partition-to-image rather than disk-to-image. I wiped out the entire disk after ...
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Can I make a Windows 10 recovery drive by running a program from a Live USB?

My computer will blue screen soon after logging in, so I can't make a recovery drive from within Windows. I tried making an image of my recovery partition with Clonezilla, but I didn't understand what ...
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How do I create a simple unattend.xml so that the image does not ask for a new user?

I'm using one virtual machine and clonezilla to create some testing images to learn a little about deployment in different machine setups. I already managed to create some images for windows 8.1 and ...
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Missing disk file from clonezilla image

Tried to restore an old Clonezilla image (2013) to the HDD I had originally restored with the image, I now find I do not get the "restoredisk" option when trying to restore using Clonezilla Live. I ...
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Cloning a drive with clonezilla yields error when cloning to disk of same size

I have 2 x 500 GB drives. One is out of the box new and is on a USB external mount. The other is the source drive in my laptop. When I use Clonezilla, I get an error saying The destination drive is ...
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Windows won't boot - Laptop always boot to clonezilla live without any usb/cd/external devices

I downloaded and burned (save .iso file) Clonezilla to an usb using Tuxboot. After that I restart my laptop and now my laptop always boot to clonezilla live (not windows 7). I've already removed all ...
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Clonezilla Live disk clone not working

My source disk is a 64GB SSD with Ubuntu on it. The target disk is a 250GB SSD. I'm using clonezilla-live-20150805-vivid-amd64.iso from a USB stick to run CloneZilla. I'm using the disk to local-...
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Periodic slow performance after cloning from SSD to HDD

A user was complaining about C: Partition size and refused to reduce his personal content on the drive. At the time he had a SSD and we only had spare HDD of larger size. All parties agreed to replace ...
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Using Clonezilla (or alternate) to make a *partial* full disk image of a multi-partition, multi-boot hdd

So I have a windows multi-boot system with XP installed first, then windows 7. I also have further partitions for user data, etc. I do not fully understand where (and what) data is stored on a pc ...
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Clonezilla: weird error about destination being smaller, though disks are identical

I want to clone a 1Tb disk which has some issues with the Win7 boot manager. I want to clone it so I can try some remedies on the cloned disk. The destination disk is also a 1Tb, empty disk. (Though ...
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Questions about using Clonezilla to create and restore image on Windows 8.1 secure boot system

I'd like to use clonezilla to create a disk image of a Windows 8.1 system with secure boot enabled and some third-party software installed, so that I can at a later time restore the system from that ...
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Cloning a 512 sector size to Advanced Format WD Black drive

I have a old WD Black drive that is not Advanced Format. Due to it having one bad sector in a unused area I need to clone it to a new hard drive to avoid losing data. Unfortunately the same model of ...
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Cloned partion to new drive - IO Wait crushes server

I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and recently needed to upgrade the HD. I bought a 3TB 7200 64mb cache replacement drive. Created two partitions one at around 2gb the other for the remainder. The machine is ...
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