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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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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Clonezilla 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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Disk 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 ...
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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 ...
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clonezilla can't restore image on other device [duplicate]
I have pc1 that run ubuntu 2024 ..I want to get image by clonezilla on flash drive and transfer image to pc2 and run ubuntu like pc1.I have problem with this..pc2 has smaller ssd drive.when I want to ...
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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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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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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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File Explorer shows disk volume smaller than it is supposed to be [duplicate]
I cloned a 500GB SSD to 2TB SSD with Clonezilla 3.1.2 using instructions as listed here https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone. I tried both ...
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Cannot load clonezilla locally throuth grub-customizer
I use to add Clonezilla as an entry of grub-customizer, so I don't need to carry a flash disk by myself everywhere I go for backup or restore of my system. I have changed the OS and moved to Archlinux ...
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Windows 10 Pro restored onto mismatched gpt and mbr partition
I am a Linux guy for years. My wife, on the other hand, is a Windows person. Two months ago her W10PRO seemed sluggish. In the end her ssd (480Gb) was questionable. So I did a Clonezilla backup image. ...
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How to activate Windows during a massive OS deployment + machine testing?
I need to install Windows on 200 Lenovo ThinkPad T460 and 200 Lenovo ThinkPad T470 laptops, which will then be delivered to various countries in Africa. These PCs are used and require a check of their ...
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Clonezilla disk to image speed decreasing over time
I am actually backing my whole 2tb disk using Clonezilla disk-to-image option.
I don't use any encryption or anything that I know that could slow down the process, and yet, Clonezilla tells me that ...
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On a new PC with PCI 4.0 express SSD: Cloning or new install of Windows? Any performance differences? [closed]
I recently received a new laptop, my old one is really in a stage in which productive work is not possible anymore. The new laptop is equipped with an Nvidia GTX 4080 12 Gb and a 12900 processor and ...
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Disk size shows the same after cloning a small disk to a larger disk
I am running Windows 10 Pro and I cloned (disk-to-disk) my 120GB SSD drive to a larger 2TB SATA drive because I was running out of disk space on the 120GB. I used Clonezilla and everything finished ...