Questions tagged [clonezilla]
CloneZilla is a free cloning/imaging tool that creates and restores snapshots. It can also be used for mass deployment.
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'Cloning' Ubuntu to my other PC?
I searched for available options and see mention of Clonezilla and Remastersys - but nothing I found answered my question completely...
My home PC is just a generic one, and now that I changed it to ...
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Clonezilla Restore -- Windows won't boot
Restored image from old laptop to new laptop using Clonezilla (complete image--no partitions), but Windows won't boot.
Option to do system restore is presented and shows five possible system restore ...
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HP Recovery partition not accessable after repartitioning
I have HP Laptop that came with preinstalled Win 7. It actually had 4 primary partitions:
200 MB System partition that is not visible in Windows
C: partition
HP_Recovery partition of about 15 GB
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How do I prepare my system for cloning, before using CloneZilla?
Part 1 is here if anyone is interested:
Clone or Image a PC
I've got 100 PC's to setup. Is it possible to set up 1 of these PC's
with software, drivers, settings, configs, licenses etc, then
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Which way can I avoid Dropbox syncing older files when restoring a CloneZilla image?
Is there a way to avoid Dropbox Syncing older files back to my account when restoring a CloneZilla system image?
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Clonezilla multiple disks restore to single disk
I have a clonezilla image from a machine that had 3 seperate disks (one partition per disk).
I want to know if I can restore that image to another computer that has a hard drive that's much larger ...
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Can I use Microsoft IMAGEX.exe to save a image from entire disk?
I'm using Microsoft Imagex.exe to save and recovery Windows images(.wim files). However, I'm using it only to save my C:\ partition, using the following command:
imagex /capture image_path ...
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How to use one Clonezilla flash drive to automatically restore two or more different images to different computers?
I have a computer enviroment with a lot of machines with two different hardware configuration, for example, 100 machines with Atom processor and 100 machines with Core i3 processor, and I want to use ...
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Clonezilla Live CD won't boot on Dell Optiplex 790
We have a dozen identical computers for a customer that need similar configurations. In order to do this, I planned on using Clonezilla to take an image of the first configured computer, then ...
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Error When Trying to Restore Image Using Clonezilla
I have two Dell Dimension 4700 computers.
One has a 83GB IDE drive, the other an 80GB SATA drive.
I created a 20GB partition on the IDE computer and installed Windows XP on it.
I used Clonezilla to ...
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Strange booting issue?
I have a laptop that I resized its partition to only fit the data. After that I had about `700 MB of free space left. Computer booted and it worked fine. I tried it a couple more times and it was fine....
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Clonezilla verify image fails
I have a HP Pavillion dv4 laptop that is in the process of eating its (second) hard drive due to heat issues (have since gotten it a thermal cooler pad). I purchased a 1.5TB external usb drive to ...
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Force cloned hard-disk image upon a smaller hard-disk
I have a image which was taken with Clonezilla as SAVEDISK on a 160GB harddrive.
Now a newer version of the PC released with a 120GB harddrive, the space in use is just 20GB
Is there a way I can ...
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How do I know if an image I've created of my machine is accurate and complete?
I created an image of my machine (using Clonezilla) so that I could put a new operating system onto my machine and still have everything backed up.
How can I tell if the clone was accurate and ...
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Is there a way to clone an NTFS hard drive but leave some files out?
I'm trying to find a nice way to do backups of my Windows 7 Media Center machine. Ideally I'd like to take periodic snapshots of the entire hard disk, but leave some files out of the selection. For ...
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Disk errors persist after cloning
I have an Asus Laptop that came with a Seagate HDD. Chkdsk could not fix some errors on that original disk, so I decided to buy a new one: a Western Digital with the exact same size (500 GB).
Then I ...
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Windows 7 x64 machine unresponsive after login
My coworker's computer stopped working properly. After login the Desktop loads then everything slows to a snails pace. Meaning opening My Computer could take up to 5-10 minutes. Then seemingly ...
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How to copy image over the network from a Clonezilla server?
I would like to make a disk image with Clonezilla and then copy it onto other computers with the same hardware configuration. I would prefer to boot from network and copy this image automatically.
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Why is logging in to a website affecting two different computers?
I have two Asus all-in-one desktops running Windows XP Pro SP3.
I set one up perfectly for my needs, so I decided to use Clonezilla to clone it's HDD to the other one.
Everything went well, but now ...
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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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Booting Clonezilla from a live USB on a MacBook running Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu 10.04 running on a MacBook Pro 5.5. It's using rEFIt to allow Ubuntu to boot via GRUB despite the Mac's EFI. For backup purposes, I'd like to clone it's hard drive using Clonezilla. I ...
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Creating Clonezilla image on large drive and putting it onto smaller drive
I am creating a Windows 7 Clonezilla image and while I have used the product before I am unable to find any documtation that will tell me if:
If I create a Clonezilla image on a 500 GB standard hard ...
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How can I get rid of an old HDD that my PC currenty relies on to boot?
So, this was kind of interesting. I have Windows installed on a 500 Gb hard drive, and there's been an additional 80 Gb drive sitting inside my tower for a couple of years, collecting dust (I don't ...
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How did Clonezilla create a drive image file in my NTFS drive's folder?
I ran Clonezilla, and for a drive image destination, I chose the "backup" folder at the root of my NTFS drive. The operation completed successfully; however, upon rebooting into Windows, there was no ...
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Disk copy of failing drive with Fedora 14
I have a WD disk drive of 1 Tera Byte capacity with Fedora 14 installed. On it I also have Virtual Box with a Windows XP guest installed.
Now BIOS startup and Fedora is reporting that disk failure ...
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Alternative to rsync for file level cloning?
I have 500gb of files that I want to copy to a temporary drive and then back.
I would like to be able to do this as fast as possible.
I checked out doing a block level clone, which is nice and fast (...
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Must I backup the 100MB hidden partition when creating a disk image with Clonezilla?
I'm running 32-bit Win 7. I just finished a clean install, with Windows Update patches and service packs. In order to save time in the future, I made an image of the C: partition using Clonezilla. ...
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PC cannot see Clonezilla server when using PXE Boot
Hi I have about 15 workstations, all have the same hardware specs so I figured clonezilla is perfect for cloning them. So I followed everything this guide says :cloning groups of school computers
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Clonezilla , NLite and PCs with different hardware specs
I used Clonezilla to create and restore images from a master computer to other workstations with the same specs, but the problem now is there are new computers whose hardware specs are different than ...
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"No unmounted partitions found" error while restoring Clonezilla backup to VirtualBox VM
I have an old notebook on which I would like to reinstall XP.
I thought I could create an image with Clonezilla (which I did successfully, stored the image to my USB-Drive) and create a VirtualBox ...
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How to restore an image split in several CDs?
I am helping to recycle and restore some old computers at a local charity. At home, I have created a Xubuntu installation in a virtual machine, so every needed program was installed and everything was ...
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Is there a good alternative to sysprep?
I need to save an image of a machine and redeploy it later, but the hardware will be different on each computer (so I can't use clonezilla without driver problems). I've done some research and it ...
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How can I copy a drive image to a new SSD and make it bootable?
I recently purchased a G.SKILL Phoenix Pro 120GB SSD, and attempted to make an image of my current drive, and restore that image to the new SSD. The current drive is a 320GB HDD in an HP Envy 14 ...
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clonezilla moving to bigger harddrive
I successfully cloned my hard drive from 250gb to 1Tb using -k1 on expert mode.
but when I explore the folders, why is it still acting like a 250 gb hard drive. It is still showing that 180gb ...
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Why Clonezilla doesn't recognize RAID0 drives - and how to fix it?
I have a not-so-recent HP desktop PC (model# m9510f, Q8200 CPU - I think it was manufactured in early 2009 sometime, because it still had Vista 64-bit).
I've set it up with a pair of 500GB drives ...
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CloneZilla Broke My System? Ubuntu Installation Lost After Running CloneZilla
I just read through this post and tried to get my installation back using this answer to no avail. What happened to me is this:
I spent an hour or more reading through the CloneZilla docs. I ...
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Linux Mounting Problem
I have an Iomega Network Attached Storage device on my Windows network. I am trying to use a clonezilla live USB flash drive to backup my netbook to my Iomega Network Attached Storage device. The ...
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few questions on Clonezilla
I'm trying to clone my windows xp installation.
If I back it up using Clonezilla and the my XP machine is infected by virus/spyware would I also be bringing the whole mess when I try to back it up.
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Cloning Windows 7 to Another Machine
I am trying to clone a Windows 7 Install from one machine to others, in a computer lab situation. I have used clonezilla to make an image of the machine's harddrive and then attempted to write that ...
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Clonezilla disk to disk clone on a dual boot ubuntu karmic & XP setup - cannot open '/boot/grub/device.map'
I just tried to clone a failing existing boot drive for a dual boot system with Ubuntu karmic and Windows XP installed using Clonezilla. The cloning worked fine right up until the end when I got the ...
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How to install clonezilla on Ubuntu 9.10?
I installed latest Ubuntu on a flash drive. Was ready to install clonezilla with apt-get install clonezilla but that's not the way to do it?
I prefer a physical install to a live one because I then ...
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"Reboot and select proper boot device"?
I didn't find the answer in Clonezilla's site/mailing list archives. Maybe someone has already seen this issue and knows how to recover from it:
On a test host, using www.partedmagic.com, I created ...
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How reliable is Clonezilla for backing up and restoring Windows Vista Home Premium?
I am of course talking about full "system image" backups, similar to the old Norton Ghost. Should I look at other options? There are quite a few paid and free choices, but Clonezilla looks the best ...
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