Kvein, Kevin W. Wall wrote: > Apologies if this is on the Clonezilla FAQ, but I didn't see it there > and I am too annoyed (at Windoze) to weed through the thousands of Google > results on terms "clonezilla", "restore point", "vista", and "problem". > > This past weekend I used Clonezilla Live (version 1.2.0-25) to clone 2 > partitions from my 100GB SATA drive in my Vista laptop. I saved to an external > USB hard drive. I then replaced the hard drive with a new internal 250GB SATA > hard drive. > > I make sure that the partition tables were the same for the first two > partitions. I let Clonezilla-Live handle this and then later I confirmed > with sfdisk before creating logical partitions on a new extended partition > where I allocated the additional 150GB and later used gparted to divvy that > up into additional partitions to install Fedora 9 and OpenSuSE 11. > > I had the usual problem with booting up Windows Vista, but results that by > having Grub handle boot-up process, chaining to Vista. That still failed until > I ran some sort of "rescue" operation from the alternate Windows partition > (what > Vista referred to as the 'D:' drive, which was placed there by the notebook's > OEM). > > So, Windows and both Linux versions have been up and running and for the most > part, I am happy. (When I eventually completely break free of Windows, I'll be > even happier, but for now, that's not an option. Sigh. But I digress.) > > Anyhow, all was good until today when I wanted to create a "system restore > point" in Vista. That runs the rstrui.exe utility. When I run that, I get > the error message: > There was an unexpected error: > > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. > (0x8007007B). > > System Restore will now close. > > If instead, I try to get to it from 'System Properties' > (SystemPropertiesProtection.exe), I get this error instead: > > There was an unexpected error in the property page: > Incompatible version of the serializing package. (0x80070724) > > Please close the property page and try again. > > (And under the 'Available Disks' in the 'System Properties' window, > it just says 'Searching...'; never anything else.) > > Now I know these files are there--I can see them under > "\System Volume Information\" when I mount that partition > while booted from another OS. > > So, here are my questions... > 1) Is this a known problem with Windows Vista (and XP??) ? I > thought perhaps they were doing something insane like *directly* > writing to physical disk blocks and going from one disk geometry > to another messed up those "restore point" calculations or something. >
> 2) Is there a way around it? (Note: I still have the original 100GB > disk intact. If need be, I can run through this tedious process > again. I don't care a whole lot about saving the existing restore > points, but would certainly like Windows Vista to be able to create > system restore points in the future. (It does this as matter of course > when installing Windows Updates, so I think that is critical.) > 3) Are there other things that are likely not to work with Windows Vista > when one clones a drive. (E.g., some brain-dead copy protection schemes, > etc. Fortunately, I don't use MS Office, 'cuz I'd bet that might be > one possibility.) Obviously I don't have time to test all the installed > software, so am looking to the community to see what I should be on the > lookout for. > > >From what you mentioned, you used "device-device" clone option. In this mode, IIRC, partimage is used to clone the file system. I think maybe you can use "device-image" option to save an image first, then restore the image to target disk. Since in "device-image" mode, ntfsclone is used to save and restore image for NTFS file system, maybe this will be better. By doing this, we will see if the problem is due to partimage or not, so please tell us your results. BTW, in the future, we will switch to partclone to do device to device clone, and I think it will be better. Regards, Steven. > Thanks so much for your answers and a great product. Surely beats > doing this all manually with dd and gzip and you get much better > compression too. > > -kevin wall > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
