Windows 10: How to clone Windows 10 with Clonezilla

Last Updated on April 24, 2019If you’ve ever wanted to clone your Windows 10 drive, you might’ve found that it takes some know-how. There are many things that you need to keep an eye out for in this process, and many of them, if set-up the wrong way, might leave you with a cloned drive [...]

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Cloning with Clonezilla not working

No-shame pre-24 hour bump. *Cool


Here's what happened in a condensed form:

• I have 2 HDDs, a Raptor and a 1TB drive
• I install Mac OSX on the Raptor
• Using Clonezilla, I make an image of the Raptor with OSX on it and store it on the 1TB drive.
• I install Windows 7 on the Raptor.
• Using Clonezilla, I make an image of Win7 and store it on the Raptor.
• For fun, I use Clonezilla to restore the OSX image back to the Raptor.
• I boot OSX and it gives me errors
• I use Clonezilla again and restore the Win7 image back to the Raptor
• Everything works

Why would won't OSX boot? I think this has to do more with Clonezilla than OSX. It was working before I cloned it.

 

Clonezilla Windows 10 Clone not bootable


I am cloning my Windows 10 OS partition.

My HDD have
450MB Recovery partition
100MB EFI System partition
(C: 239.2GB NTFS (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

I cloned (C: ) to an External HDD, however it is not bootable.
Should I also clone other partitions for able to work or I missing some steps?

 

Cloning with Clonezilla not working

Ok, so I'm current using my G5 --> PC Conversion computer. It has two hard drives, a 74GB Raptor and a 1TB Hitachi. Windows 7 is installed on the Raptor and the 1TB drive is used as storage.

After seeing Fit's attempt at running OSX on PC hardware, I wanted to give it a go on my PC. So I used a program called CopyWipe to copy the Raptor to a spare 80GB Seagate drive I had laying around. I've used this program before and it always works how I want it to. Now that I had a backup of my Windows 7 drive, I installed OSX on the Raptor. Long story short, I got it working to the point where it would boot without issues. (no sound though)

Because I'm not sure what OS I want on this computer yet, I wanted to keep both. So I figured that if I make an image of both OSs on the 1TB drive, all I had to do to switch OSs is restore the image back to the Raptor. So I make an image of the Raptor with OSX on the 1TB drive using Clonezilla. Everything goes smoothly. Then I use CopyWipe to copy the 80GB drive's contents (Win7) back to the Raptor. I boot into Win7 on the Raptor with no issues. Then I use Clonezilla to make an image of the Raptor with Win7 on it. Everything works. So now I have Win7 installed on the Raptor, and an image of the Raptor with OSX and an image of the Raptor with Win7 both stored on the 1TB drive.

Here's where the issues start. I wanted to test the restoration process. So I use Clonezilla to restore the OSX image back to the Raptor. The process completes. I boot up and upon loading, OSX is giving me a kernel panic. *Frown I did'nt want to mess around with it, so I use Clonezilla to restore the Win7 image back to the Raptor. It works. I'm writing this from Win7 right now, and I see no issues.

My question is what would cause OSX not to boot in this situation? This isn't an OSX question, but rather a Clonezilla one. I made an image, and when I restored it, it doesn't work. Nothing has changed. Any ideas? *Confused