6-17-2016 This is reference Clonezilla-live Particulars: Windows 7 pro 64-bit Using Clonezilla-live 20150525-vivid-i386.iso Hitachi 1000g ata device - odds & end here Kingston ssd sv300s32a120g ata device - only Windows 7 here The Clonezilla backup says that the backup is sucessful. Twice now when I needed to restore from the backup, Clonezilla-live gave an error messsage telling me the disk was to small. It should put Windows 7 on the Kingston ssd and the other goodies on the Hitachi spinner. Am I going to have to stop using Clonezilla-live? I feel that I can't depend on Clonezilla-live to restore my system anymore. If more info is needed i will be happy to accomodate. Thanks for any help.
Thank you for answering Han. Not sure. Haven't had the SSD drive very long. The only way I find out if a backup is not working is when I am in trouble. The backup and restore says the file is OK. So I have to go by that until I am in trouble. Now my wife's computer has only 1 HD. But I haven't had to restore her computer in years. So I really don't know if her backups are valid either. Sorry I can't be more specific.
It's been a little while since I've used Clonezilla but I know it's always been rock solid for me in the past. When you create the backup image, you're doing it for one drive at a time right? If that's right, I'm wondering if the image restore that's failing is trying to restore to the wrong drive. Linux is a little cryptic for drive ID numbering.
Nope. I have been backing up both at the same time and verifying them at the same time. To me it seems that the restore is trying to put both backups on the ssd drive which is quite smaller than the Hitachi and failing there. Don't know what to do about it........
I think this approach might solve my problem. Please let me know what you think about it. Running Windows 7 pro 64-bit. Running a Kingston SSD 128G, Hitachi 1000G spinner. I think Clonezilla-live will let me back-up & restore the drive I want. If so, I can back-up only Windows & then restore only Windows. Or disconnect the spinner & then I know what I am going to get. This would be a pain but will work. Then I can back up anything separately on the spinner to my back-up drive or elsewhere & no problem. I definitely want to keep Windows separate from my data.
