Creating a Master Image to roll out to 30 new Machines Licensing Issues
At my company we are buying 30 new Identical PC's from Dell so we have standard setup. What i want to know is if its possible to configure one of these machines to our specification as a master and...
View Articlepartclone, 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...
View ArticleDecrypt 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...
View Articleclonezilla backup partition to disk
I want to back up only 1 partition of my 1TB to another new external hard drive(1TB). 1TB has 440GB of ubuntu operating system. So I want to clone only that. Not entire disk. Clone 440GB to 1TB WD...
View ArticleQuestions about using Clonezilla to create and restore image on Windows 8.1...
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...
View ArticleDoes cloning Windows 10 to a larger SSD require activation?
I am planning to buy a Windows-10 desktop and will clone an image file of the Windows-10 drive: possibly for future use in larger SSD. When the Clonezilla file is imaged to a larger SSD, should I...
View ArticleHow to Copy an Operating System to Another HDD?
I found out my hard drive is slowly dying. It's certainly still usable, but I need to copy the operating system to another hard drive, which I don't know how to do. I would like to try to avoid using...
View ArticleDisk ID update after partition cloning from HDD to SSD
I am looking forward to adding SSD in a laptop and in a desktop both currently having single HDD each. Laptop has single partition (well apart from the Recovery and OEM) and desktop has two partitions...
View ArticleClonezilla stopped. Can "sgdisk -z /dev/sdx" destroy all the data on sda?
I need suggestions. I wanted to backup sda2 on which Win7 is installed. I deleted the Recovery Resion. (Probably Testdisk can restore this partition because I haven't done any manipulation on that...
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How to clone a virtual Windows disk to a physical disk on VMware - I changed...
I did not pay attention, to the following VMware warning, when mounting the drive as writable. Here's what I was trying to do: I was planning to mount a 16 GB VMDK file with Windows installed on it on...
View ArticleClonezilla won't clone to a smaller disk
According the docs, Clonezilla supports cloning to a smaller drive using the option -icds. Let's cite:If you are sure all the data from the image could fit the smaller disk, i.e. it won't be written to...
View ArticleCan I remove the Clonezilla USB media while it is running?
I booted the Clonezilla live image from a USB stick and am currently in the proces of cloning my internal HDD from it.If this was a normal Debian live USB, taking out the USB stick during operation...
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Samsung NVMe 2TB drive "toast"?
I've had this drive as my OS+data drive for about 10 months. It just apparently died on me. The computer was running Windows 10 and had a BSOD. When I booted it up, the drive was detected but not...
View ArticleClonezilla re imaging issue
I have made a clonezilla image of a win7 install. This image was made from a 40gig SATA drive about four years ago. Periodically I clone the image to a drive, do updates, and then create an image...
View ArticleClonezilla 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...
View ArticleCan a Clonezilla image be edited?
I have generated a Clonezilla image file of three partitions, but now would like to delete one file from a partition of that image. Is it practical to talk about doing so, in Linux or...
View Articleclonezilla 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) have...
View ArticleClonezilla , 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...
View ArticlePeriodic 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...
View ArticleClonezilla showing smaller disk partition (smaller to larger drive) even...
I'm trying to clone my 3TB hdd to a 4TB, and following the instructions on the clonezilla website everything works..except windows see my larger drive as 3TB only. Opening disk management shows the...
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