Hi James, James Dutton wrote: > My system configuration: > HP DX2250 Box > AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ > Dual 80GB Hard Drives > Windows XP PRO on Drive 0 > Fedora 12 on Drive 1 > No Dual Boot - Boot using F9 Boot Menu > No Floppy Drive > > Here is some feedback on my experience with three of the latest > Clonezilla releases (2-31, 3-24, 3-27). I am going to stay with > Clonezilla 2-31 for now. I have used it many times to copy and > restore my hard drive image with no apparent problems It’s only > problem is encountered during “restore” of the image copy to the > original hard drive. It falls all over it’s self trying to resolve a > “boot record” issue and the lack of a floppy drive. It hangs and a > power down is necessary to exit the situation. > > I have tried both Clonezilla 3-24 and 3-27. Both releases have the > same problem prior to image copying the original hard drive. At a > certain point in the process there is a rolling screen of repetitive > error messages (the same message is repeated over and over many > unknown times). I do not see these error messages in release 2-31. > The “Scroll Lock” and “Pause/Break” keys are ineffective and the > subsequent messages are sufficient in number to roll the last > iteration of the error message off the screen. Due to this, I am > hesitant to rely on either version for an accurate image copy. Also > release 3-27 has a significant problem at the end of the image copy > process. When the image copy finished I entered “3” to terminate the > task. It went into a non interruptible loop with a single line > message flooding a rolling screen, which required a power down to exit > the situation. Maybe a future release will include certain keyboard > interrupt handling to support better diagnostics/reporting of certain > error situations. > Thanks for this feedback. Could you give clonezilla live 20100121-karmic a try? We will see if any difference between these. Please report the results. Thanks.
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