On 21 March 2012 07:15, <jumpingspo...@hushmail.com> wrote: > I forgot to mention that I don't know how to make the partition sizes on the > destination hard drive EXACTLY the same as the partition sizes on the source > hard drive using only Gparted. I mean, I can only see the partition sizes > down to a MiB, not a byte, so there's no way to know that the destination > partition sizes are EXACTLY the same. This is actually why I initially did a > clean installation of Windows on the destination hard drive; I figured doing > so would create partitions that were the right size, even if they weren't > blank. But as I mentioned, that method ended in failure; Windows failed to > boot after the restoration. This should NOT have happened because Clonezilla > is supposed to overwrite the destination partitions with data from the image > whether the destination partitions are blank or not. > > Despite trying both methods, Windows still fails to boot. Please help! I've > read the information at both Steven's links, but I still haven't been able > to get it working.
Hello, try booting the source drive with the shrunk partition to make sure the issue is with the cloning, not the source. If you were too aggressive in rearranging the partitions to shrink them windows will not boot without using some rescue tools to fix the boot loader. When doing whole disk restore you should get exact same disk layout and windows should boot provided the geometry of the disk as faked by the PC bios is same even for the smaller disk. This may be an issue for disks smaller then like 80GB and old bioses. Also note that before moving windows installation to a new hardware you should make some preparation steps. Sometimes moving (or imaging) the disk into a different machine works but sometimes you have to make sure drivers for the new hardware get loaded, you get the correct disk geometry, etc. HTH Michal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list Clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
