Steven Shiau wrote:
> Kevin W. Wall wrote:
>> <deleted...>
>>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.
Steven,
You're right... I picked device-device originally.
Instead of using Clonezilla Live to (redo) this via it's
"device-image" option, could I just drop into expert (i.e.,
shell) mode and us something like this:
# mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 # Mount intermediate target (ext disk)
# ntfsclone --save-image --output - /dev/hda1 | gzip -c >/media/sdb1/hda1.img.gz
# ntfsclone --save-image --output - /dev/hda2 | gzip -c >/media/sdb1/hda2.img.gz
# shutdown -h now
Replace 100GB drive with 250GB drive and reassemble laptop.
Boot up OpenSuSE 11.0 or Fedora 9 and restore Windows partitions.
(I have ntfsprogs RPM is installed on both.) Restore via:
# mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 # Mount intermediate source (ext disk)
# gunzip -c /media/sda1/hda1.img.gz |
ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/hda1 -
# gunzip -c /media/sda1/hda2.img.gz |
ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/hda2 -
I know this seems like more work, but at least this way I don't risk
overwriting my new Linux partitions on the new 250GB drive, nor have
to worry about messing up the partition table or overwriting Grub on
the master boot record.
If advisable, I could also save the images using the '-rescue' flag
on ntfsclone and use ntfstruncate to reset the bad sector list (as per
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone) on the new hard
drive. However, I really am not aware of any bad sectors on the
older 100GB hard drive.
It's not that I don't trust Clonezilla to do this right, but rather that
I don't trust my ability to not mess up because I misinterpreted one
of Clonezilla's prompts. Also, I *am* a dinosaur and am more comfortable
with taking actions that I can see rather than having to trust that I
chose the right menu option and then trust what is going on under the
hood.
Of course, if I can just figure out a way to tell Windows Vista to
forget about any *existing* system restore points (I have ~14GB worth!)
and just to discard all that and start saving them anew from now on, I'd
be happy to live with that too. But so far, haven't found a solution
to that, but maybe I'm just not googling for the correct terms. Even if
Windows can't see the C:\System Volume Information\ folder for some
reason, I trust the Linux NTFS code enough to be able to properly
delete that folder and recover the 14GB or so on the free list. I've
seen a few Windows forums suggest re-installing System Restore when the
restore points can't be read, but I need to read about that further before
trying it.
Thanks in advance,
-kevin
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