VERY USEFUL Video! I had to use CloneZilla for the first time, but it was a bit daunting. 10 minutes later, I knew everything that I needed to know to get the job done! Thanks
Clonezilla really works great, I've used it for 3 years on XP & 7 from a LiveCD and backing to another partition. If you have a usb drive or flash it will back to it but it wont back to a DVD drive (coming out soon) You can burn the folder to a DVD later from Windows if you like. This is a true bare metal backup, unlike any backup that runs from within Windows.
When starting Clonezilla did you already had an OS installed before cloning? I am trying to restore a clonezilla image to a drive on virtualbox that the partition is not allocated. Do I have to install an OS to initiate the partition in order to restore the image to my VM?
@MaryJWonder No you can restore to an empty drive.
The drive you're restoring to has to be equal or larger size than the drive you took the backup from. So just make the Virtualbox Guest drive large enough.
You can the Virtualbox guest to boot from Clonezilla .iso file. Then you can use is as you would on a real system.
Just put a link to the website in the video, or in the description, and let us read it at our own rate if we want. I came here for a tutorial, not to be spoonfed an product summary off the developers website.
Just to test it, I deliberately erased the C drive and tried to restore it with clonezilla image I had created. Took me about 45 minutes. It says imaged was restored successfully but the C drive just doesn't boot at all. I am not even sure where I went wrong. I have tried the whole procedure several times over several days. One thing I did different was to delete the C drive and recreate the partition, using Windows 7 DVD to erase Windows. Any ideas why this is not working? Thanks ~Amar~
@kudalaMangalooru I think in deleting the partition you lost the boot flag on your C: drive. Does your computer get stuck with a blank screen with some error message like "No Operating System Found"?
A system recovery through Windows 7 install DVD might sort it.
Or download a LiveCD of GPartEd. Using GPartEd you can switch the boot flag back on
Just to test it, I deliberately erased the C drive and tried to restore it with clonezilla image I had created. Took me about 45 minutes. It says imaged was restored successfully but the C drive just doesn't boot at all. I am not even sure where I went wrong. I have tried the whole procedure several times over several days. One thing I did different was to delete the C drive and recreate the partition, using Windows 7 DVD to erase Windows. Any ideas why this is not working? Thanks ~Amar~
Hello Quid, Thanks so much for this great tutorial. I am using USB version of clonezilla. I have not been able to get the Cdrive image working. I have Windows 7 Pro & all necessary software installed on C drive (50 GB). I have a backup partition 700 GB on same HD where I want to back my C drive to. Both partitions are NTFS. The Flashdrive with clonezilla boots up fine. I followed your steps carefully using another laptop.
hi! i got a laptop and wanted to upgrade the HDD on it, if i clone the old HDD with the new HDD, will it still work? i want to copy the OS i have (win7) and all other programs at once, so will it work with the new HDD?
@quidsup thanks. That is what I have been discovering over the past 52 hours of wasted time. One idea is to shrink the partition holding the OS and then imaging the partition and writing to the SSD so that there are not size issues. Could have also been due to the 3 partitions that Lenovo preinstalls on HD. All this because of OEM installs with no Win 7 install CDs. Maybe if Clonezilla does partitions I could use that. I have Lenovo's Recovery Discs now, so maybe they can be the magic trick
Say you cloned a fresh install of Windows 7 and then restored the image onto a different computer does that not go against any copyright laws? Good video by the way
@XiXloveXtoXsnipeX Thanks. The way I see it - if you hold a license key to use on X number of computers and you keep within that limit then thats perfectly legal.
On the technical side if they're completely different systems with different hardware then Windows won't boot up, most likely it will BSOD and won't even go into safe mode.
No problem. :-) I think the main issue I had, with a machine I no longer use was when I was using grub in the mbr rather than partition. Could be the other way around, was when I was using OpenSuse or Mandriva. By keeping that checked. My machine went to a black screen. I think Clonezilla is a fantastic project though. The devs deserve a lot of credit. The only main feature I would like to see is verification of images and multiple dvd's auto restore.
Hello, well done with the video. Makes me want to make my own clonezilla tutorial! Just one thing that I noticed was your comment regarding the "corrupt grub reinstall". From my understanding, I could be wrong! Is that clonezilla reinstalls grub. Not actually from the image. So the only reason to use that option would be if you wanted grub, but not from the image. My reasoning for that, is that with it unchecked, it's restored from the image. Strange why it is checked by default though.
@dancemat Thanks. I agree with your understanding, the Clonezilla grub can be a different version than on the image. From experience its caused a few errors in the bootup of Ubuntu, nothing huge, but enough to slow it down a bit
Clonezilla is an awesome back up program, I used it when I was attempting to back up my already dying HDD and then the HDD killed itself half way through. I would recommend Clonezilla if you need a free version. Or if you wanted to pay, Acronis is very good and has a nice GUI.
@crazyiom Yeah its a great program, helped me out a lot when I was starting out with Linux. Could mess around so much knowing that it only takes a few mins for Clonezilla to undo all the damage. I haven't tried Acronis.
VERY USEFUL Video! I had to use CloneZilla for the first time, but it was a bit daunting. 10 minutes later, I knew everything that I needed to know to get the job done! Thanks
RandomDude2008B 1 week ago
@RandomDude2008B Cheers thanks
quidsup 1 week ago
Clonezilla really works great, I've used it for 3 years on XP & 7 from a LiveCD and backing to another partition. If you have a usb drive or flash it will back to it but it wont back to a DVD drive (coming out soon) You can burn the folder to a DVD later from Windows if you like. This is a true bare metal backup, unlike any backup that runs from within Windows.
mikemasondotus 2 weeks ago
When starting Clonezilla did you already had an OS installed before cloning? I am trying to restore a clonezilla image to a drive on virtualbox that the partition is not allocated. Do I have to install an OS to initiate the partition in order to restore the image to my VM?
MaryJWonder 2 months ago
@MaryJWonder No you can restore to an empty drive.
The drive you're restoring to has to be equal or larger size than the drive you took the backup from. So just make the Virtualbox Guest drive large enough.
You can the Virtualbox guest to boot from Clonezilla .iso file. Then you can use is as you would on a real system.
quidsup 2 months ago
Maybe we could do without the remedial reading??
Just put a link to the website in the video, or in the description, and let us read it at our own rate if we want. I came here for a tutorial, not to be spoonfed an product summary off the developers website.
Thanks for the tutorial though.
suckmybat 3 months ago
How can I install the server version?
Yorick1989 4 months ago
Just to test it, I deliberately erased the C drive and tried to restore it with clonezilla image I had created. Took me about 45 minutes. It says imaged was restored successfully but the C drive just doesn't boot at all. I am not even sure where I went wrong. I have tried the whole procedure several times over several days. One thing I did different was to delete the C drive and recreate the partition, using Windows 7 DVD to erase Windows. Any ideas why this is not working? Thanks ~Amar~
kudalaMangalooru 5 months ago
@kudalaMangalooru I think in deleting the partition you lost the boot flag on your C: drive. Does your computer get stuck with a blank screen with some error message like "No Operating System Found"?
A system recovery through Windows 7 install DVD might sort it.
Or download a LiveCD of GPartEd. Using GPartEd you can switch the boot flag back on
quidsup 5 months ago
Just to test it, I deliberately erased the C drive and tried to restore it with clonezilla image I had created. Took me about 45 minutes. It says imaged was restored successfully but the C drive just doesn't boot at all. I am not even sure where I went wrong. I have tried the whole procedure several times over several days. One thing I did different was to delete the C drive and recreate the partition, using Windows 7 DVD to erase Windows. Any ideas why this is not working? Thanks ~Amar~
kudalaMangalooru 5 months ago
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Hello Quid, Thanks so much for this great tutorial. I am using USB version of clonezilla. I have not been able to get the Cdrive image working. I have Windows 7 Pro & all necessary software installed on C drive (50 GB). I have a backup partition 700 GB on same HD where I want to back my C drive to. Both partitions are NTFS. The Flashdrive with clonezilla boots up fine. I followed your steps carefully using another laptop.
kudalaMangalooru 5 months ago
hi! i got a laptop and wanted to upgrade the HDD on it, if i clone the old HDD with the new HDD, will it still work? i want to copy the OS i have (win7) and all other programs at once, so will it work with the new HDD?
douwethaman 6 months ago
@douwethaman Yes that'll work fine as long as new HDD is equal to or larger than the old one
quidsup 6 months ago
@quidsup superb! thank you for the superfast answer! i will sub to you! ;)
douwethaman 6 months ago
hallo,
i want to clone from my 500gb HDD to 120gb SSD... i only want to clone only one partition (OS). what software do you recommend me to use?
syahmie69 7 months ago
trying to take image from a 500GB drive and restore it to a 64GB SSD. Not working....
DCUPtoejuice 7 months ago
@DCUPtoejuice It won't. The drive you're restoring to has to be equal to or larger than the original.
A partition copy & paste using GPartEd might work instead
quidsup 7 months ago
@quidsup thanks. That is what I have been discovering over the past 52 hours of wasted time. One idea is to shrink the partition holding the OS and then imaging the partition and writing to the SSD so that there are not size issues. Could have also been due to the 3 partitions that Lenovo preinstalls on HD. All this because of OEM installs with no Win 7 install CDs. Maybe if Clonezilla does partitions I could use that. I have Lenovo's Recovery Discs now, so maybe they can be the magic trick
DCUPtoejuice 7 months ago
Say you cloned a fresh install of Windows 7 and then restored the image onto a different computer does that not go against any copyright laws? Good video by the way
XiXloveXtoXsnipeX 7 months ago
@XiXloveXtoXsnipeX Thanks. The way I see it - if you hold a license key to use on X number of computers and you keep within that limit then thats perfectly legal.
On the technical side if they're completely different systems with different hardware then Windows won't boot up, most likely it will BSOD and won't even go into safe mode.
Same make and same model will be perfectly fine
quidsup 7 months ago
@quidsup Ok cheers for the quick reply. I just cloned my WinXP machine with Ubuntu on it using Wubi. XP doesn't work in VBox at all but Ubuntu does!
XiXloveXtoXsnipeX 7 months ago
hi quidsup... please show this using drbl and clonezilla se...
jerricboy 8 months ago
Open source is the best software ever!
Ograws 9 months ago
i like acronis its not free but wkd
HODOUTHINKUAR 11 months ago
thanks! well done, tested out with fedora today, works and quite fast :)
wowpowcom 1 year ago
@wowpowcom Cheers. Good to know it works well with other Distros. Yeah the latest version is pretty damn quick now
quidsup 1 year ago
No problem. :-) I think the main issue I had, with a machine I no longer use was when I was using grub in the mbr rather than partition. Could be the other way around, was when I was using OpenSuse or Mandriva. By keeping that checked. My machine went to a black screen. I think Clonezilla is a fantastic project though. The devs deserve a lot of credit. The only main feature I would like to see is verification of images and multiple dvd's auto restore.
dancemat 1 year ago
Hello, well done with the video. Makes me want to make my own clonezilla tutorial! Just one thing that I noticed was your comment regarding the "corrupt grub reinstall". From my understanding, I could be wrong! Is that clonezilla reinstalls grub. Not actually from the image. So the only reason to use that option would be if you wanted grub, but not from the image. My reasoning for that, is that with it unchecked, it's restored from the image. Strange why it is checked by default though.
dancemat 1 year ago
@dancemat Thanks. I agree with your understanding, the Clonezilla grub can be a different version than on the image. From experience its caused a few errors in the bootup of Ubuntu, nothing huge, but enough to slow it down a bit
quidsup 1 year ago
Excellent tutorial. By far the best on Clonezilla that I've seen on YT.
Laoch111 1 year ago
@Laoch111 Cheers thanks
quidsup 1 year ago
At some points of the video it looks like your strugging to see the writing...
sorryunlucky 1 year ago
@sorryunlucky lol yeah I was a bit tired before starting. Probably should have left it a day or so, but I've been meaning to do this vid for ages.
quidsup 1 year ago
@quidsup
Do you know the name of that Persona you have on Firefox I like it. :-)
sorryunlucky 1 year ago
@sorryunlucky its called Firefox Fireball
quidsup 1 year ago
@quidsup
Thanks I have it now :D
sorryunlucky 1 year ago
awesome I'll try that before upgrading to linux mint 10 :)
TheKaymor 1 year ago
@TheKaymor Cool. Hope that all works ok for you mate
quidsup 1 year ago
Clonezilla is an awesome back up program, I used it when I was attempting to back up my already dying HDD and then the HDD killed itself half way through. I would recommend Clonezilla if you need a free version. Or if you wanted to pay, Acronis is very good and has a nice GUI.
Nice Video Quidsup
crazyiom 1 year ago
@crazyiom Yeah its a great program, helped me out a lot when I was starting out with Linux. Could mess around so much knowing that it only takes a few mins for Clonezilla to undo all the damage. I haven't tried Acronis.
Cheers
quidsup 1 year ago