I've been testing the ability of various imaging apps to restore an entire drive image of a UEFI Win8.1 system to a new empty HD. O&O DiskImage 9 Pro does this successfully. All 4 partitions were restored in their correct order.
Thanks for doing this testing Brian. There was a giveaway of this program recently and I downloaded it but haven't tried it yet.
MisterB, I didn't test a restore of a MBR system to a new empty HD as I expect it will work too. Please let us know if you get a chance to test this.
Brian, have you tested the Ubuntu based Clonezilla AMD64 version? I think it should also work, since it has first track backed up by default.
oliverjia, I've never used Clonezilla. If I can't work it out in 10 seconds I'm not interested. Will it take me longer than 10 seconds?
LOL probably it will take you about a minute to use the advanced imaging routines, but if you use the default options you'll need only a few seconds. Other than the GUI, it's actually a pretty solid product. I used it as one my major imagers for Ubuntu.
oliverjia, No luck. I tried 2 restores. The image was selected and sda was selected. It errored out looking for sda1 which didn't exist.
Strange... Did you try expert mode or default mode? I normally use expert mode which contains a few extra steps/options but it always works out (to the same HDD). I have not tried restore to a new empty HDD using Clonezilla before.
I used Beginner mode. I'd expect restoring to established partitions on the same HD to work but it didn't like an empty HD. I was using a Win8.1 UEFI system, not a MBR system, so there are 4 partitions and a GPT disk.
i always want to like O&O stuff but man i just dont. i keep trying to like it. i also dislike the way it does incrementals. they take darn near forever longer most of the time then even a baseline.
agreed. you have to do a custom install and deselect all the extras... they do this with every O&O program though.
if only the deselecting of extras during install stopped all the startup items, oodiag.exe still runs regardless
you can kill that one though if you really want to. but no not from the install you have to do it later.
I will do a VM test install and see how I feel about this program. I don't have much patience with software that is pushy, bloated and installs more than it needs to perform its function. If there are any embedded facebook or twitter links, I won't go further.
O&O has never failed me, but like others have stated, the incrementals and differentials take longer than a full backup. I want to like it, but I don't have time for it.
