---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Clonezilla fails to restore a partition - How can I mend this? From: "Simon L" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, August 22, 2009 16:55 To: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear all, I backed up a partition as a file. After I installed the new disc drive and booted CZ, I instructed it to restore a partition from an image. Part of the process involved telling which file to use, which it found. In this case: /2009-08-20-20-WXP.img The new disc is blank - It has no partitions on it. This is because I had thought that I had instructed CZ to back up sda1 (Windows XP) to an image, with the intention to use CZ to restore of image back onto sda1. Slight hitch: There is no sda1 on the new disc, and I cannot create this because I am aware that Windows is rather fussy about it. Because of this I used these options as mentioned in the FAQ for WXP: -j0 t1 The entire command was: /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-sr -q2 -c -j0 -t1 -z0 -i 2000 -p true saveparts "2009-08-20-20-WXP.img" "sda1" I do not think that CZ can restore a partition image back to the disc unless it has a valid partition (I really wish I knew this yesterday;( ) I think I am unable to create n sda1 partition as WindowsXP would expect it, (fdisk, yes i know, but from reading the FAQ then WXP will dislike sda1 and refuse to boot). Note that the original disc is now inaccessible so this is the only usable backup that I have. *Summary Question* How can I create the Windows partition correctly from the information in the img direction, and which command could I then use to restore of the image into the partition? Best wishes, Simon. N.B I have concatenated the pertinent text files, and for the sda-mbr I have only provided the output of the 'file' command. # cd 2009-08-20-20-WXP.img/ # ls -l total 13422508 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5927 2009-08-21 04:28 Info-dmi.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26020 2009-08-21 04:28 Info-lshw.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 287 2009-08-21 04:28 Info-packages.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2009-08-21 04:28 parts -rw------- 1 root root 2097152000 2009-08-21 04:20 sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.uncomp.aa -rw------- 1 root root 2097152000 2009-08-21 04:22 sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.uncomp.ab -rw------- 1 root root 2097152000 2009-08-21 04:23 sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.uncomp.ac -rw------- 1 root root 2097152000 2009-08-21 04:24 sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.uncomp.ad -rw------- 1 root root 2097152000 2009-08-21 04:25 sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.uncomp.ae -rw------- 1 root root 2097152000 2009-08-21 04:27 sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.uncomp.af -rw------- 1 root root 1148233660 2009-08-21 04:27 sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.uncomp.ag -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37 2009-08-21 04:19 sda-chs.sf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2009-08-21 04:19 sda-mbr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 707 2009-08-21 04:19 sda-pt.parted -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 412 2009-08-21 04:19 sda-pt.sf -- #cat sda-pt.sf # partition table of /dev/sda unit: sectors /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 26892747, Id= 7, bootable /dev/sda2 : start=132022170, size= 80839080, Id= f /dev/sda3 : start= 26892810, size=105129360, Id=83 /dev/sda4 : start=212861250, size= 21559230, Id=bf /dev/sda5 : start=132022233, size= 626472, Id=83 /dev/sda6 : start=132648768, size= 76035582, Id=83 /dev/sda7 : start=208684413, size= 4176837, Id=83 -- # cat sda-pt.parted Model: ATA ST9120821AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 234441648s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 63s 26892809s 26892747s primary ntfs boot 3 26892810s 132022169s 105129360s primary 2 132022170s 212861249s 80839080s extended lba 5 132022233s 132648704s 626472s logical ext3 6 132648768s 208684349s 76035582s logical ext3 7 208684413s 212861249s 4176837s logical ext3 4 212861250s 234420479s 21559230s primary ext3 -- # cat sda-chs.sf cylinders=14593 heads=255 sectors=63 -- # cat parts sda1 -- # cat Info-packages.txt Image was saved by these Clonezilla-related packages: drbl-1.9.4-47 clonezilla-2.3.3-68 mkswap-uuid-0.1.1-1 drbl-partimage-0.6.7-1drbl drbl-ntfsprogs-2.0.0-4 partclone-0.1.1-15 drbl-chntpw-0.0.20040818-7 drbl-lzop-1.02-0.8drbl pigz-2.1.4-1drbl pbzip2-1.0.5-1drbl udpcast-20081213-1drbl -- # file sda-mbr sda-mbr: x86 boot sector; partition 2: ID=0xf, starthead 254, startsector 132022170, 80839080 sectors; partition 3: ID=0x83, starthead 254, startsector 26892810, 105129360 sectors; partition 4: ID=0xbf, starthead 254, startsector 212861250, 21559230 sectors, code offset 0x48, OEM-ID " 3.0úü¾", Bytes/sector 191, sectors/cluster 6, reserved sectors 51340, FATs 142, root entries 35280, sectors 36596 (volumes <=32 MB) , Media descriptor 0xc0, sectors/FAT 55438, hidden sectors 3914966515, sectors 3036383744 (volumes > 32 MB) , physical drive 0x2, reserved 0xcd, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x16) -- Simon Loewenthal [email protected] -- Simon Loewenthal [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. 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