Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive in Microsoft Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22632235 en Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:39:30 EDT Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:39:30 EDT Re: Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22646629 chachazz : 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.

»clonezilla.org/

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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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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22646629 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:20:01 EDT Re: Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22646045 dsilvers : 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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22646045 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:23:48 EDT Re: Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22645590 tvtek :
said by howie See Profile :

said by Kilroy See Profile :

"The best way to handle the situation would probably be to break the mirror."
7 years bad luck! :o
A good lawyer will get you less! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22645590 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:51:52 EDT Re: Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22645522 howie :
said by Kilroy See Profile :

"The best way to handle the situation would probably be to break the mirror."
7 years bad luck! :o]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22645522 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:34:30 EDT Re: Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22645461 Kilroy : 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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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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22644401 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:05:02 EDT Re: Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22644236 angussf : Don't know if any of these will clone a RAIDed disk, but here are a couple of possibilities. Several of them are free:
Lifehacker - GFI Backup is an Easy to Use, Free Backup Solution - Featured Windows Download
»lifehacker.com/5305592/gfi-backu···solution

Lifehacker - Five Best Windows Backup Tools - Hive Five
»lifehacker.com/398229/five-best-···up-tools


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»www.linkedin.com/in/angussf]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22644236 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:31:44 EDT Re: Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22642574 Desdinova : Excellent! Thank you very much!! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22642574 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:53:04 EDT Re: Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22642336 janderso1 : 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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That should get you started. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22641270 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:09:41 EDT Re: Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22640897 Desdinova : Any ideas from anyone? Pretty please!? :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22640897 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:01:17 EDT Trying (Unsuccessfully) To Clone A Dual Boot Drive http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22632235 Desdinova : I have a computer with a RAID 1 array for the boot drive that's divided into two partitions, one is XP Pro and the other is Vista Ultimate 64bit.

I want to clone the array onto two 500 GB drives but I'm having some issues. I have Paragon Hard Disk Manager Pro 2008 and I've tried to clone the individual partitions (the program doesn't seem to want to just clone the drive, partitions and all) and when it gets close to finishing up the transfer, it says the target drive has an issue and it can't complete the operation. I've tested the target drive with several apps and all of them give the target a clean bill of health, so I suspect it's Paragon that's having the problem.

Can someone recommend an app that will let me easily clone the array? I'd like to clone the target drives separately using an external enclosure (I'll swap the drives and clone them one at a time) then replace the original drives with the clones.

A free app would be nice, but if spending a few bucks will make the process more painless, I have no issues with buying something.

Thanks!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22632235 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:55:29 EDT