Steven Shiau wrote:
> 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.
I found suggestion at support.microsoft.com to address this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940970
As I really don't care if previous restore points are recovered or not,
I think I will try this before trying Steve's suggestion or trying
to use 'ntfsclone' as I discussed in my previous post today.
I'll let this group know if it works or not.
-kevin
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