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Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive

Any ideas from anyone? Pretty please!?

Have a look here: »Software Forum Member Choice »(Archived) Preferred Backup & Imaging Software - 2009 Member Choice

That should get you started.

reply to Desdinova
My suggestions

Make separate backups of each partition using something like TI2009 or TI11
Restore the backups to one of the drives
Create a raid array with the second and first drive

Note: I don’t currently use raid.

A power supply failure can kill both raid 1 drives and raid 1 cuts your disk space in half.

If either raid 0 drive fails you loose everything and raid 0 doesn’t perform much better on most applications.

Raid 5 and up are out of my price range.

Instead I use backup software (Acronis TI11 or 2009) and store the backups on at least 2 PCs.
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reply to Matt
Excellent! Thank you very much!!

reply to Desdinova
Don't know if any of these will clone a RAIDed disk, but here are a couple of possibilities. Several of them are free:

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reply to Desdinova
Do you have a Segate drive in your system? If you do, you can download the Segate Disk Wizard (Acronis) to clone for free. Even if your array is not Segate you can boot a 3rd Segate drive on your system and then you can use the software.

I don't know how it will work for your array, but it works great cloning and restoring multiple partitions from one disk: The factory restore partition, along with the utility partition, and any partitions that I have set up.

»www.seagate.com/www/en-us/suppor···scwizard

Maybe the manufacturer of you drives provide similar free cloning tools? I use the Segate tool because it is Acronis and I have had a couple Segates in my system for quite a while.

reply to Desdinova
Since you're running RAID1 (Drive Mirroring) the best way to handle the situation would probably be to break the mirror and image one drive instead of trying to image the array. When you're done with the image recreate the array.
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reply to Desdinova
Be aware thatTI2009 may have disc alignment problems that can affect disk performance when restoring partitions on a striped array. Vista and XP have different offsets and this may cause the starting location of the partition to be misaligned with the stripe unit boundry. TI 2009 sets the offset to the XP standard. I was told in another forum that Shadow Protect can handle it. I didn't try it.

Microsoft has a solution here: »support.microsoft.com/kb/929491#top

Wilders has a discussion here: »www.wilderssecurity.com/showthre···lignment

A work around might be to set up a mirrored array and run the second operating system in a VM. That would solve the misaligned partion problem but if you are running your operating systems on a separate partition from your data that won't work. I am still looking for an imaging program that can handle striped partiions.

Regards,

Dave

reply to Desdinova
OpenSource ClonzeZilla supports RAID.

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Clonezilla does support hardware RAID, if your RAID device is seen as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/cciss/c0d0... on GNU/Linux. Clonezilla does support this.
On the other hand, if it's Linux software RAID, no, Clonezilla does not support that.

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Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk.

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