How to Clone a Bootable Drive (Clonezilla)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- In this video, I show you how to clone a drive that contains your operating system, to another drive, using Clonezilla--a free and open-source bootable Linux-based drive cloning utility.
I demonstrate this with a Windows installation, since Windows is the most cumbersome to clone to another drive. Please note that if you are cloning a Windows installation from one computer to another, you will have to install drivers, and maybe reactivate Windows, on the target computer, once the cloning process is complete.
Disclaimer: Make absolutely sure that you select the correct source and target drives, and that the target drive has nothing on it that you need, because the target drive WILL BE ERASED during the cloning process!
Prerequisites:
1. A computer
2. Two drives (one source, one target)
3. An external drive for Clonezilla/GParted (at least 1 GB in size)
Download Links:
Clonezilla (alternative stable branch): clonezilla.org...
GParted: gparted.org/do...
Commands:
Run CHKDSK (in Windows): chkdsk [drive letter]: /F (example: chkdsk C: /F)
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Next time, assume people have no idea, so take your time with steps, You're good up till the boot manager, then you zoom through without taking time to assume someone doesn't have an extensive computer background
Okay.
I thought everything was super clear!
@@Mike-gq9bv Yes everything was clear up to the Gparted thing.
Thank You Drew. Your video makes this process look so simple. And it is !!! Worked a treat cloning a HDD with multiple partitions to an SSD. Breathed new life into a several years old Notebook PC. Cheers from the Land Down Under.
Worked like a champ, thank you! I went frrom a 500GB internal SSD to a 2TB internal SSD. Just to see what would happen, I left both drives in the laptop on the final reboot and Windows disabled the source drive on startup. This is great because I can leave it diasbled for a while while I run the new drive, and when I'm convinced all is well, I will reformat the source drive to be used as more free storage. So far, everything is working perfectly and it appears all data is there on the new drive. Your video saved me a bunch of time and money on software.
Great turorial man, you've gained a new subscriber. I'm a CAD guy so kinda tech adjacent and you have to be a little tech savvy to excel in this field but I've worked for several companies who contract IT through a 3rd party and unless you get lucky and link up with a really good tech most of them would sh*t themselves trying to do stuff like this, really kinda sad honestly, but I love stuff like this because when they tell me "impossible" I can come to stuff like this and even for a dummy layman like myself this is very followable and doable (I feel like dual booting used to be way more complicated but last time I did it it was from a mac 5-8 years ago). Thanks again, I really do appreciate stuff like this. I've fiddled with virtual machines with virtual box some as well just out of interest and I didn't use it this time because I'm a bit out of my depth but I've got a feeling you've got a good bit of content on them as well and look forward to diving in and really learning how to take advantage. What's the point of having terrabytes of storage and endless RAM if you aren't going to use it and one of the coolest developments from increased storage and computing power is the ability to do in software what previously was only achieved with a software hardware combo, best example of this to me is software defined radio, with a laptop and basic antenna and hardware that fits in a backpack we can do 1000x more than my Grandfather did with basement full of hardware as a HAM radio operator. Amazing time to be alive if you're the type that can get lost in these kinda problems.
As someone who is starting to enter the tech field my goal is to be one of the good techs you'd luck your way into. I hate the general technical ineptitude of most people and want to be the furthest from that as possible
This video was a great help for me. I was unable ro use gparted to resize the windows partition. I used gparted only to move small end partition to the end of drive, then used windows disk manager to extend system partition. Big thanks !
I’m very tech-illiterate but this tutorial was perfect and i didn’t screw anything up, thank you!!
Oh I forgot to mention, I loved this tutorial, pretty good stuff. Straight to the point
Great video Drew, you just helped me replace / upgrade my C drive for the first time ever :))
Thanks sir, well done. I have a special HD that if it fails will take forever to remake. I have wanted to clone it for ages using CZ but have been too scarred. Your tutorial has given me more confidence.
Thanks. Glad I could help. Let me know if it works.
Thank you so much for the tutorial.
Awesome! You are the perfect guide for beginners, very good job!!
Good video thanks. I probably could have figured out clonezilla myself but it would have taken longer. Going from a 120GB SATA drive to a 1TB pcie gen 4 NVME for booting is crazy.
Excelent tutorial! Everything working splendid! Thank you
Great Tutorial. You just gained +1 subscribers and thank you very much for the efforts you put into making this video.
Hey! I want to thank you for your video, I just cloned Windows 11 from 500 G byte M.2 drive to 1 T byte M.2 drive, it was easy-peasy, now I got room for more games Hara!
But how many hours does it take to clone a 250 GB of data hard drive? If this takes ten hours then it might be better to make a fresh install?
@@lenny108 It doesn't take that long, plus if you do a fresh install you lose all the programs you installed and all your personal settings, which can be quite extensive for some.
thank you for this video, your demo is pretty clear and useful for backup my system.
highly appreciate you for this tutorial lad. am looking forward to giving it a go myself. thank you.
Fantastic, one of the better explanation on the subject. Thanks.
Thanks. Couple steps were different for me but i was successful! Appreciate the video.
Glad it helped! What steps were different for you?
Really good video dude! You are a super star. I will be trying Clonezilla!
look like gparted is the most powerful partition manager out there
Not sure about the MOST powerful, but definitely a lot more so than Windows' partition manager!
Awesome dude! 🤓 Thanks a lot
Thanks man such a nice tutorial.
Great video! Super helpful
This is a high quality video. Well presented. I'm 46 and been in tech since age 3.
Well done!
Great video! Thanks!
Thanks man! Helped loads! I plan to migrate to Linux very soon. I plan to use a bootable Linux Mint drive and slowly migrate all my software from windows on to that drive and then eventually use Linux Mint as my daily driver.
Once I'm ready to use only Mint and have fully integrated all my software, could you let me know, would it be possible for me to clone the bootable Linux Mint drive to my main ssd and allocate the remaining space to Mint with CloneZilla?
Clonezilla doesn’t do partitioning (that’s what GParted is for), but you can certainly use it to clone drives.
For windows NT 3.51 apparently you don't need to go and do the disc check. Also you need to know the cpu architecture for the gparted and clonezilla in order to boot. The tutorial used x86 and that's for multi core processors(think 64 bit processors with two or more cores) The one below on the site is for single core processors. (Think cpu back in the windows XP 32 bit days)
Thanks for sharing.
Video would have been much better if you had concentrated a little more on the options. Some I didn't even have time to read and had to go back and look.
Good suggestion. Perhaps that’s where people end up going wrong.
Followed steps exactly. Worked but new cloned drive was not working with WiFi adapter drivers. I tried booting old drive to see if WiFi would work, and after I did that both SSDs are bricked.
Everything gone. I don’t know what to do.
So sorry to hear that. What error message are you getting when you try to boot them?
Thanks for some great info.
You’re welcome.
Great info!
Thank you so much!!!
Hi, i'm doing almost the same thing i wanna make a dual boot but a copy of a VM and a copy of the main os. Your video was a usefull ressource thank u
Awesome tutorial, I had to use Rufus to make the Gparted work with the ISO file.
Although at this point I am finding it difficult to figure out how to format my only driver for additional storage since my computer does connect to the SSD and HD simultaneously. I cannot format using disk management as is not allowing for the option. wonder how can I fix this.
First of all, make sure you've selected your target drive in GParted (there will be a dropdown menu that allows you to switch between drives when you have multiple drives connected).
If there is another partition in the way of your C: partition, you will have to move that partition out of the way before you can extend your C: partition. NOTE: You have to use GParted to do this. It cannot be done in Windows Disk Management.
Hi, so if the source drive has 1tb capacity and has 2 partitions, 1 partition drive c has 200 gb data which I want to clone to bootable disk since it has the OS, the other partition drive d has 700 gb allocation but total data stored on this disk for drive c and d is 700 gb. So it is not possible to clone since the target disk is only 235 gb ssd? I only want to clone the drive c partition which is 200 gb which has the OS since my target ssd is only 235gb but I tried almost every tutorial in UA-cam but nothing seems to clone this partition and make the target disk bootable. Do you have other way for this? Thanks
In your case, I would copy the partition using GParted.
Okay thanks, I’ll try it.
This man is teaching me how to clone! Wait
Yes! This process works for both Windows and Linux drives, as well as non-OS drives (that are just used for data storage).
Great tutorial.
My BIOS is not listing the USB drive. Can't load Clonezilla. 😢
I later realized that the unzip method only works on UEFI.
Check the description for a video on how to make a bootable drive.
@@DrewHowdenTech Thanks. I reformatted the flash drive, repeated the process (a couple of times), and, eventually, it worked.
Unzippeed to usb. rebooted selected the usb as boot device. got the message "Insert usable bootable device and reboot, select any key." Cannot boot off the clonezilla usb. I double checked the USB it has all the unzipped files on it.
I later realized that the unzip method only works on UEFI.
Check the description for a video on how to make a bootable drive.
Stupid question, I have a linux mint live boot flash drive that has gparted on it, would I be able to use that instead of install gparted only?
Yes. Definitely!
This didn't work for me. I keep getting the blue screen of terror. I tried Cloning a SanDisk 125g to a 1tb WD Black sn850x. I'm using a Asus Rog GL702VS laptop. I'm not sure if its just not compatible or I'm just dumb. I've tried clonezilla and EaseUS. It will work as a USB drive but not as my boot drive. Every time I try to boot it the new drive blue screens. Put my old ssd back in and it boots just fine.
Try changing your boot mode from UEFI to Legacy.
How after all these years is this program still absurdly overly complicated?
That's why we make tutorials.
Its better than how its done outside clonezilla, manually cloning blocks
I've successfully booted into gparted, but now I'm hungup on the screen at 7:07. What do I do?
If you're not sure which options to select, just keep hitting enter until you get into GParted.
Hi Drew, would selecting the option on Clonezzila to check the data instead of skipping the process, avoid the chdsk use on windows?
No it wouldn’t. Windows/NTFS is very particular about formatting.
Drew, you should look into the camera more.
Great work. but you could use windows diskmanager for partition resizing and would save ton of time and not have to download and burn gparted to bootable usb
Sure you could use it to RESIZE a partition. But if there is a recovery partition in the way that you need to MOVE, Windows Disk Management can’t do that, and you have to use GParted.
Thanks. I have an HP 11m-ap0013dx laptop from 2019, and the stock SSD has 1% of its life left. (I've gotten the hard disk error (301) error for about a year now). I upgraded to a 2tb PCIE SSD from Crucial, but I didn't want to clone the original SSD to the new one, so I tried cloning to a USB. I guess I didn't set things up properly because the USB won't boot. I'll update this comment when I re-do the cloning.
Failing drives can cause issues when cloning.
I could only boot from my USB with the old SSD installed. With the new SSD or no SSD it just shows INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. I think I will just copy my users folder and pray.
Update: It was because I used MBR for BIOS, rather than GPT for UEFI. I don't know how or why I figure this out.
But how many hours does it take to clone a 250 GB of data hard drive? If this takes ten hours then it might be better to make a fresh install?
@@lenny108 Like 6 hrs. I wasn't really using the laptop anyways. I ended up doing a fresh install because windows piracy defenses wouldn't let me boot regardless even after I fixed the MBR issue. I went with linux mint, and have all my files on a usb
When booting into gparted, it doesn’t launch the graphical menu for me. Just will sit at the boot up window. What am I doing wrong?
You need to select an option in the boot menu.
Thanks a lot; what if the source is two hards (RAID 1) and needs to clone to two hards (To be RAID 1 also).
What is your suggestion, please?
I've never worked with RAID arrays before, but I assume these would show up as one single drive in Clonezilla. In that case, you would need to have all four drives connected to your system (the two sources and two targets). The two sources would show up as one drive, the two targets would show up as another single drive (I think). You would then select the source RAID array as your source drive, and the target RAID array as your target drive. Of course, your target drives would need to be configured as a RAID array.
That being said though, I can't be sure Clonezilla will even recognize your RAID arrays, or be able to work with them. Especially since you haven't told me anything about your RAID setup (other than that they are RAID 1). Are you using hardware RAID or software RAID?
I cloned ubuntu from 250 gb ssd to 2tb hdd using clonezila live on usb drive using the option device to device. Cloning is successful,(i can see used space is same in both drives using gparted) but I can't boot from cloned hdd. I tried from both uefi and legacy boot, secure boot on and off but none worked. Cloned drive isn't detecting as bootable drive. Please help
I made a video three years ago on how to fix Ubuntu’s boot. I would give that a try. By the way, here’s the link to it:
ua-cam.com/video/s6NyFbUP1z0/v-deo.html
Great tutorial but i have 2 questions.
1) can i just add clonezilla and gparted on my ventoy drive? I'd assume yes, just to make sure
2) 9:09 i'm booting on the new cloned drive, right?
Thank you for your time.
Yes, and yes.
Thank you very much :))
Hi, thank you for this tutorial, I've copied my disk to ssd with way much more memory (hdd has 80GB, sdd 950GB)
I am trying to do gparted part to expand my disk, my main space is right next to unlocated, but I cant expand it anyway, main difference i can see is that my smaller particions are on one side and yours are sandwitching the main ones. Idk if this is what i have to change so idk if i should do sth i dont know. Please, can you tell me what may be wrong? Now Im using the newest version of gparted, 1.5.0.6
Is GParted showing a warning icon on your main partition? If so, right click the partiton, then click info, and let me know what the warning message is.
@@DrewHowdenTech it doesn't. My main partion (/dev/sda5) is right next to unallocated, i can move it but when even if it shows space to be expanded (there is more space to drag it atound) I cant expand it (i gry to drag points next to partion, it shows symbol like on stretching a picture and yet when i drag it it doesn't follow
@@DrewHowdenTech i works only on my windows laptop, so i have to plug my Linux disc via adapter, can this be an issue?
@@DrewHowdenTech only Linux swap (if turned on) and fat32 can change sizes
Do you have a partition within a partition?
2 questions: If I'm going upgrading a 256gb laptop SSD -> a bigger USB (512gb) via USB enclosure first, (1) any issues with cloning via USB as the target "local" drive, and (2) what was that small partition you just wiped out when extending /dev/sda4? I feel like the entire Gparted section you were just wiping and moving stuff around without a great explanation for why or what the various leftover unallocated or tiny partitions were. "gparted just does that" doesn't make me feel good about leaving them there.
1. While I never tried it, I don't see why you would have any problems cloning to a USB drive.
2. I didn't delete any partitions. GParted leaves a little bit of free space when you expand a partition, just for performance reasons. I assure you that I am not just creating/deleting 1 MB partitions out of nowhere.
Great information. Only thing is, after selecting usb from boot menu… it clonezilla Live doesn’t appear. I think a step about making a usb bootable is missing.? Hmm I’m stuck
How did you create your USB?
Followed instructions and the drive has been cloned. However, I cannot boot anymore. Both bootable drives startup and then show a black screen with just the mouse on screen. Have had blue screens as well with some attempts of tinkering
Did you select the beginner mode or the advanced mode?
Beginner mode. I'm likely going for a factory reset at this point
I'm thinking it might not be a corrupt drive bc I restored my drive to one dated Nov. 20th and the same issue occurred.
@@DrewHowdenTech managed to figure it out. had something to do with the BCD settings and i had to reinstall it with windows disk utility
I'm having issues, when I go to the boot menu and choose usb it still loads my default HDD, am i doing something wrong (going from HDD to M.2)
How did you get Clonezilla on the USB?
For some reason, Gparted shows my partition extension. But later when opening Windows 11 it does not reflect the change.
Going back to Gparted again, it still shows the partition as extended. Despite it not showing on Windows.
Weird, is it possible that you’re booting from the source drive and not the target?
@DrewHowdenTech I was cloning my second nvme slot drive. From 512gb to 4tb.
It cloned, but the Gparted goes through no problem. But doesn't show on windows.
Did you disconnect the source drive after cloning? If not, do that.
Amazing tutorial. How do you make GParted bootable? Just downloaded as a raw ISO file. Also, could we just diskpart?
Use a program like Balena Etcher.
If you only need to EXPAND partitions, then Windows diskpart would work fine. However, if you need to MOVE partitions in order to expand other partitions (like I had to do in this video), then you will need GParted.
@@DrewHowdenTech Thank you for responding.
SMACK! that enter key!
In the video, you were cloning directly to the final drive you wanted to use, but what would you do if you had to use a 3rd drive, like using an external drive for example? Would you clone from your source drive to your external, then clone from the external to your final drive?
Also, by going through this while process, do you still have to install windows on the final drive you want to use? Or does the cloning automatically take care of that?
Also which video of yours shows how to use gparted? I can't find it when I look it up
Yes you can use an external drive as an intermediary in the way that you have described. Just be sure that there is nothing on either your intermediary or target drives, because they WILL BE ERASED during this process!
Also, cloning makes a bit-for-bit copy of a drive to another drive. In other words, absolutely EVERYTHING on the source drive will be copied, including the Windows installation.
As for how to use GParted, I have demonstrated that in this video, and in another video where I went over how to use four different partitioners-GParted being one of them. Click the link below to watch:
ua-cam.com/video/3VdsTemXNXw/v-deo.html
7:00 I think windows Partition Manager can handle the partition expansion after cloning to a bigger drive right?
It depends on how exactly your drive partitions are laid out. If there is a recovery partition in front of your main partition (like in this video) then it won't work, and you have to use GParted to move that partition out of the way in order to expand your main partition.
How do you make the target drive bootable? I get winload.efi missing error.
Boot from a Windows installation media, select "Repair the computer", then "Advanced options". From there, select "Command Prompt", and enter the following commands:
Bootrec /FixMbr
Bootrec /FixBoot
Bootrec /RebuildBcd
Hey Drew, I've got a question. Is it necessary to use GParted? Couldn't you simply use the built-in Windows partition manager? And if not, why so? Thanks in advance
I suppose you could. However, GParted gives you a lot more control over your partitions.
@@DrewHowdenTech Thanks for the quick response and advice, appreciate it :)
Cant find the instructions on how to flash gparted...
Should be linked in the info card. Otherwise, check the description.
I don’t know if you are still replying to comments here, but does my drive that when I’m doing this do my drives connect through usb or sata?
Doesn't matter. You can use either-or.
What I don't understand is WHY do You even bother with Gparted it's a great tool, don't get me wrong but why not use Windows boilt'in tools to extend the partition (use the allocated space)
It’s true that you could use Windows Disk Management to RESIZE a partition. But if there is a recovery partition that you need to MOVE, Windows Disk Management can’t do that, and you have to use GParted.
Do I have to use a different pc to get GParted on my flash drive? It won’t let me boot into my pc to get to google to download it.
In this case, yes.
Whenever I moved my windows installation to my SD card whenever I boot into the SD card it just says reset system for a split second then restarts, which is not an issue when booting into my main drive. I've attempted this twice.
What options did you select? Also, does your source and target drive have the same partition table?
Fixing partition can be easier done by some free tool that can be installed on windows
Sure, you can use a third-party tool, but I like to interface directly with the operating system wherever possible.
Would it also work on Windows server? Am trying to clone my windows server.
Yes. Should work for any OS. Only catch is that on Windows, if you have to use GParted to modify partition tables on either drive, you have to chkdsk that drive before doing anything else.
Can't you just use Windows built-in disk management to extend the partition?
If there’s a recovery partition in the way, no.
@@DrewHowdenTech Oh, well I'm a command line type of guy so I know how to delete partitions. But I guess third party software will do all that automatically.
Hey idk If you still respond but when I click the usb device to go into clonezilla it just boots into windows
How did you flash it?
Great video.
Quick question. I’ve a new SSD 512GB and my HDD 500GB. So when I apply the first method… when do I disconnect my Source to Target.
And will i need another USB or i can use the same one i have my OS in?
You would have them both connected to the computer you are running Clonezilla on at the same time.
@@DrewHowdenTech Thank you❤️❤️
What if I want to Clone a non-OS drive? That is to clone a data drive.
You can use the same procedure in this video, without the chkdsks.
I've gone with Seagate Disc Wizard which is free to use...
You can also use that, but it's not open-source.
@@DrewHowdenTechwhat has open source got to do with getting ssd drive into a computer?
@@brimans3092 peace of mind that the program is doing exactly what you want to happen and tism.. lots of tism.
moving a boot drive that was on an intel machine over to an entirely new amd machine. wish me luck.
For a variety of reasons, this did not work, especially since Clonzilla wants to use VGA displays.
Haven't had one of those for years.
The VGA mentioned here is the display resolution. It can run on monitor over any connector type: HDMI, DP, VGA, etc.
> this did not work
at which point in the video do you face issue?
If you have a dedicated graphic card installed, you may need to make sure your monitor is connected to the GPU. Some AMD cpu doesn't have an integrated graphic card
@@shocked-curry-omelette No worries, I found other software that was easier to use, problem solved.
I had to update my internal C Drive SSD from 256 GB to 1TB. The trick was that I had to use in intermediate HDD since I only have one SSD slot. It took some time, but I was finally able to update without losing anything off of my original C Drive.
@shocked-curry-omelette Thank you for your response.
It would have been much more simple and handy if the video contained everything needed for the process, as the linked video is about another operating system which is Linux not Windows.
Read the description for that video.
I used clonezilla and SUCCESSFULLY cloned my Windows10 C DrIve bit for bit to a same-sized HD. The cloned drive was so identical to the source, that even the drive signature was identical. When I allowed windows to change the signature of the clone, the clone would not boot. The CMD-listed data (under DISKPART) no longer displayed the descriptor, “boot.” Because you cannot have 2 installed drives with the same signature (i.e., the same “Disk ID”). How can I get the clone to boot? (Bios boot ordering does not do it.)
Try removing the source drive from your system and see if the target drive will boot.
@@DrewHowdenTech Thank you; that’s what I wanted to do, but I opened the tower Dell 3660 Precision, and it’s a nightmare getting at the drives. Even trying with the service manual. You can’t tell what’s what. I decided it’s got to be a software method. For example I could go into BIOS and DELETE the C drive, thus leaving the clone (G:) as the only bootable drive left and see if the BIOS will use it (even w/o the “boot” showing). The Boot data is present on the drive but this method may or may not force it. -The other problem is, after that trial, how to UNdelete the C drive.
I know this may seem like a dumb question, but have you tried selecting the target drive in your boot menu, or putting the source drive all the way at the bottom of the boot order?
@@DrewHowdenTech my last sentence said that BIOS boot ordering did not work. By “ordering” I meant changing the boot sequence. (In other words I used the wrong word.) However I didn’t try putting the source at the bottom. I’ll try it now but I don’t think it’ll make a difference.
BTW, Here’s what I wrote to a local friend just a few minutes ago:
For weeks and days, I’ve tried, researched, studied, thought, and questioned avenues to accomplish a means to boot my (KNOWN) successful clone of system drive C.
All (including those tried) have proved difficult, questionable, inscrutable, or impossible.
What remains is just to delete C from the BIOS drive list to force BIOS to select and boot the clone as the only bootable prospect available, when it doesn’t find C.
I have learned that, although getting drive C back on the list in BIOS is an involved process, at least all C drive’s data will remain intact.
I will reclone C first, so that the disk ID will be the correct value again (I had to change it from having the target and source both being the same). And then delete C, and try to boot the clone which will be identical bit for bit copy of C. This has a high enough probability of succeeding for me to risk it. All I can lose, if it fails, is “convenience”-i.e., the time needed to manually restore things.
(Changing the boot sequence in BIOS has not worked.)
 P.S. Thanks for your caring efforts, and sticking with me. I don't quit easily and I'll get some kind of solution or alternative eventually. I
might even tackle opening the case again, with stronger resolve!
how do you go about making flash drive bootable after putting Clonezilla on it. when selecting USBon boot it only shows the files to select rather then booting. I am trying to clone my 243 GB with windows 11 to added disk 1 tb disk internal.
Is it bringing you back to the BIOS boot menu?
@@DrewHowdenTech I ended up using a third party software to make it bootable and used the iso version. It worked well and easy to use over all. But now i am having a problem getting the unused partition back as usable with C:. I initially used a different 3rd party disk management tool which corrupted boot files. i believe it did copy my original hard drives number. I had to fix corrupted boot files and turn my original hard drive offline. its running but for now only have the same accessible memory. after the scare form the corrupted boot up files from trying to gain the full memory to the C: I am little concerned to try it again with Gparted
@@DrewHowdenTech just a quick update I tried using gparted but upon booting it showed a bunch of errors containing error loading nivida and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth but loads after its shows a big list of the same errors on a few different pages to show language selection and stuff. Then once selecting all defaults it stays on the black command page with the no warranty
Maybe try running GParted from a Ubuntu install media?
Your video was excellent, but I still have 1 problem. After following through, the destination drive looks identical to the source drive, except there is some unallocated space at the end (it was a bigger drive). The drive however does not boot. I am using Linux Mint
Thanks
What error message is it giving when you boot the target drive?
@@DrewHowdenTech I have an old PC with Win 7 on it. I use Linux Mint on a USB hard drive and normally boot from there. I wanted to make a clone of that Linux drive in case I need it.
I followed your video and everything seemed to work great. I then compared the two drives and they both looked the same (except for the extra space on the target).
When I try booting with the new drive, Windows 7 boots, even when I use F12 and select boot from USB
Thanks
Is it possible that you cloned the wrong drive?
@@DrewHowdenTech No. I cloned the USB HDD that I use to boot Linux. When I was done, I compared it to the new drive and they are the same. The old Windows drive is also very small and could not be mistaken
Try unplugging the Windows drive and see what happens with just your target drive connected.
I was trying to clone a windows OS from an sd card to my internal drive on a partition. I used expert settings and hit accept on the defaults after selecting the 2 partitions. About a minute into cloning it said it couldn't find the partition that I was cloning to and that the kernel version might be outdated or something. Then it aborted and now Steam OS on the internal and Windows OS on the sd card won't boot. Did clonezilla just corrupt all of my files or is there a way to fix this? I don't even want to do what I was doing before anymore I just want to be able to boot at least one of my two broken OS.
So, as stated in this video, and by Clonezilla itself, the target drive gets erased as part of the cloning process (hope you didn't have anything important on there). So that definitely wouldn't boot if a clone fails.
As for your source device, how does it show up in a partitioner (because your source device should still be bootable)?
@@DrewHowdenTech source device and target device are identical as they were before. I chose PARTITION to PARTITION not drive to drive so it should have only erased the target partition. Instead all it did was mess with the boot files of both OS. The files are all still in tact on both.
What was on your target partition? Also, how do these drives show up in a partitioner?
@@DrewHowdenTech the target partition was empty
@@DrewHowdenTech its 600gb and 400gb on the SSD and 512gb on the SD
How do you clone to NAS external hard?
Using the same method as in this video. You will just need some way to connect your NAS drive to the computer that you are doing the clone on (e.g. a Hard Drive dock).
none of that worked on my system
What happened?
Is that copy of windows using MBR?
No, it’s GPT/UEFI.
@@DrewHowdenTech okay thanks, very helpful video, I just bought a M.2 NVMe 1tera byte and I want to clone windows 11 to it from a 500 gigabyte SSD drive, do you have any advice about this other than what's in your video, thanks
When I clone my drive onto a new NVME it has only cloned the boot partition when I look at it in gparted. None of the data is cloned, just a 2.5 GB boot files or something like that. Do you know why? :0 I did everything in Ubuntu on my current system/drive without booting into seperate USB drives like you did.
Is your target NVME drive’s capacity greater than or equal to your source drive’s capacity?
@@DrewHowdenTech It's greater.
@@DrewHowdenTech On gparted my system drive is split into 2 drives but I only use one name disk. And only the smaller of those 2 without the user data and / mount point(? Is that the name) appears in clonezilla.
Do you mean that you have two separate drives, or that your drive has two partitions?
@@DrewHowdenTech Two partitions on one drive.
How to boot clonezilla live using vbox
Just put the Clonezilla ISO into your virtual machine, and get it to boot from CD.
Is clonezilla free???
It is! Check 2:00
I've gone with Seagate Disc Wizard which is free to use... and easier to understand
@@brimans3092 how did it go?
Yes. It's both free, and open-source.
is it not easier to use windows disk manager to just allocate memory that wasnt used to the drive
You can, but it doesn't give you nearly as much control over your partitions.
get to it
Man , windows is very easy ok! work with linux ,copy hdd for ssd , clonezilla!!!!!
What do you mean?
No need to use the ugly and non-intuitive Clonezilla application when you can use Balena Etcher to create a bootable clone of your Linux system drive. Balena Etcher is for Linux what Carbon Copy Cloner is for MacOS.
Yeah, but does it work for cloning Windows drives?
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Thanks for watching!
I’m pretty sure you could’ve just booted into windows and went to disk utility and just expanded the partition rather than downloading the portion bs
The problem is that if you have a recovery partition to move out of the way, Windows Disk Management won’t let you do that.
@@DrewHowdenTechI see
3:19 "Once you've got that zip file unzipped to a blank usb drive..." Well since I have no clue what that means, and you don't explain it, I guess I'll go elsewhere. I haven't found any vid that says how to make that usb drive for linux without these mysterious instructions or the one with the command line. I can do that, but it's a PIA for normies! Because you forget after a while and have to relearn everything! You'd have a better video if you explained that.
Because it's not that complicated. But maybe I didn't explain it clearly enough. Simply put the files contained within the zip file onto a BLANK USB drive. You can do this by right-clicking the file, clicking "Extract To..." and then selecting your BLANK USB drive.
@@DrewHowdenTech I'm sorry if I came across as rude, and thanks for replying. I did do that, but after seeing other videos that go into making the usb with balena etcher or rufus, it didn't seem like that could be right. Moreover, it seemed like you were working in windows; I'm using linux mint, so I bailed out about then anyway. I've watched the video through, but I think I am also going to have a problem since I don't want to reformat the target drive. I just want to store an image on it. It's 4TB, and I only need 500 GB to image the drive. That makes me think I'll have to partition the target drive, and the whole thing is looking like it's beyond my capacity. I was hoping for a relatively straightforward way to backup the drive, but that doesn't seem to be out there. It seems to me there has to be an easier way.
Clonezilla has a device to image option.
@@DrewHowdenTech Yes, thank you. It has me confused because it has a lot of warnings about doing it exactly right but, the instructions aren't always clear. It's not your job to be my tutor, so thanks for the info and good luck with future videos!
@@DrewHowdenTech FYI Someone informed me that mint has a usb imagewriter built in, and it's right in the settings window. That took care of it. So now I guess I just have to pretty much follow what your video said from here on out; open in BIOS, have it clone my disk to a separate, big enough usb. Anyway, thanks again.
Why are no instructions included with clonezilla? Why bother making a program and then include zero documentation or interface? Why did you not mention how to make a bootable USB? Why is this video 15 minutes long?
With Clonezilla, you get a .zip file. All you have to do with that is simply extract it to a flash drive. Also, once I get to GParted, there's a video linked in the info card that goes over how to flash a .iso file to a USB drive.
As for your complaint about the length of the video, that's just because I had that much content to go over. This video not only goes over how to use Clonezilla to clone to a drive of the same size or larger, but also how to clone to a smaller drive. That, and 15 minutes is actually a pretty standard length for a tutorial like this.
But regardless, thank you very much for taking the time to write a comment. It actually helps the video, and by extension the channel.
Did what you said in the video and now my windows won’t boot, after resign my main partition, windows fails to boot. Unrwl 😂 Jesus
Is that on the source or the target drive, or both?
@@DrewHowdenTech the new drive, after I shrunk the only available one, then resized main partition, rebooted and now the boot isn’t found, currently trying to make a windows recovery usb in hopes I can bootrec or something. This has been a disaster
@@DrewHowdenTech the drive is coming up in scanos as D: which could be why it’s not booting properly
Odd that the drive letter would change. Are you sure all partitions were copied over?
Also, have you tried booting the target drive with the source drive disconnected?
@@DrewHowdenTechI dont know what the issue was but I rebuilt the bcd bs and got it to work
anyone doing this on a msi motherboard hit F11 after reboot to get the boot menu and select the relevant usb disk for cloneziilla/gparted
Oops, I ran GParted and resized without installing it into the desktop and doing repairs first, still ran the repairs afterwards and it seems fine? 😅
terrible info more about me me me instead of clear info
I'm so sorry to hear that. What part are you getting stuck on?