How to create a bootable clone of your windows 10 drive by alexander fox posted on nov 30, 2016 nov 29, 2016 in windows cloning your windows 10 boot drive to a new hard drive is not as easy as it might seem. Windows 10 drive cloned from clonezilla image will not. Clone uefi disk to ssd without boot issue in windows 10. From there flushing the drivers with sysprep is the best course of action to avoid deeper problems with drivers etc. It can be used to backup clone information from media to media. I had to upgrade to a uefi windows 10 installation, with a gpt. You may also have to disable uefi in there as well.
While browsing what i assume to be the uefi settings screen on the new windows 10 machine, i edited some options to see if it would boot as if it were booting legacy allowing the pxe to pick up the clonezilla server settings. Bsod after restoring windows 7 clonezilla clone to. I use clonezilla with success for many years to make images from partitions that host windows 7 or smaller and ubuntu and other operating systems. How to clone a windows 10 installation to a new drive. However, if you need uefi secure boot, please use amd64 version of clonezilla live. Clonezilla is free and open source software for disk imaging and cloning. Clonezilla provides a lot of different type of cloning capabilities. Clonezilla is an open source, free and easy way to backup your hard drive, clone a drive, and more. Visit clonezilla site and download clonezilla latest version. Can not access uefi screen bios computer can still boot.
Otherwise download and install unetbootin on your ms windows computer. Hit start and the bootable usb thumb drive with clonezilla will be created. Bsod after restoring windows 7 clonezilla clone to dissimilar hardware. Free way to clone uefi disk as boot drive in windows 1087. For one, my nvme drivers are still windows default, which might affect speed. However, like all boot disks, you may run into issues if you boot from clonezilla on a laptop or desktop that has a nonmainstream network card installed. Clonezilla offers multiple packages for different processors i686, 586, amd64, intel 54 but majorgeeks mirror download will work on most computers. If your machine comes with uefi secure boot enabled, you have to use amd64 version of either debianbased or ubuntubased clonezilla live. Hi there, ive been using clonezilla to make snapshots of my windows installs for years now, and never had a problem rolling back restoring. Here is how to create a bootable usb drive that can load clonezilla for. Hi steven i have been following your various projects for many years. Clonezilla to clone hdd to ssd in windows workaround. Clonezilla supports remote or local backups to and from an entire disk, image or a partition. I was able to create and restore windows 10 images with clonezilla after my upgrade from windows 7 back in august.
Therefore please use those ubuntubased clonezilla live. Use amd64 ubuntu alt version of clonezilla setup system configuration sata operation ahci default is raid on setup secure boot secure boot enable off default is on. This is a basic course on cloning computers using clonezilla server. Its a good tool for backing up a complete windows system with all of your installed applications, and i like it for making copies of linux test systems so that i can trash them with mad experiments and then quickly restore them. Clonezilla will boot from the usb drive so choose the default hit enter. To create a bootable media, connect a usb flash drive with at least 4gb of storage, and then use these steps. Therefore we do not release i386 ubuntubased clonezilla live for ubuntu 19. Clonezilla project does not manufacture its own cds or usb keys, but thirdparty vendors do. Clonezilla is a great open source means to capture and restore system images and it works very well. Weird issue with windows 10 image restore using clonezilla cached filesystem on other drives. Its interface is not very friendly, and may scare off the less brave, but once you get the hang of it, youll find it to be full of interesting options. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. Checksum files are gpg signed by drbl project, which has the fingerprint. This tutorial represents a practical excerpt on how to migrate also known as cloning a windows 10 operating system from a large hdd with multiple partitions, such as c.
Clonezilla itself is licensed under the gnu general public license gpl version 2. I then rebooted to the clonezilla livecd and restored the image to the original machine. How to migrate windows 10 from hdd to ssd using clonezilla. Clone windows and linux drives with clonezilla poftut. If disk in partitioned in mbr layout from uefi, you should clone all partitions, such as windows re partition, efi system partition, microsoft.
If you already have a partition of at least 200 mb in size on your usb flash drive formatted with a fat or ntfs file system then skip to the next step 3. Today i tried to create a new image as ive installed some new software and it wont recognize one of the hd partitions. But now with the advent of uefi im not sure how to make images with clonezilla and how to restore them in a correct way. Sounds like it may be worth your time to look at running a fog server instead of clonezilla. We will then use easyuefi or bootice to set the uefi firmware nonvolatile ram nvram bios setting to boot to the grub2 clonezilla menu. Here in this part, we will guide you to clone windows 10 via clonezilla. I turn off windows 10 safe boot in bios uefi and turn off windows 10 fast startup in control panel.
In other words, you can use it to clone disk from mbr to gpt data disk or mbr to mbr. Therefore, it is not easy to clone hdd to smaller ssd through clonezilla. If you want to clone windows 10 to smaller ssd or hdd, you need to shrink the source partition to fit the destination partition. However, there is an easy way to most likely getread more. How to install clonezilla on a usb flash drive from windows. After the chkdsk is complete i defrag the hard disk if it is not a ssd. Clonezilla supports 32 and 64bit systems, both legacy and uefi bios, and both mbr and gpt partition tables. Instead you need to boot all the way into windows and then instruct it to change its behaviour the next time it boots so you can access the uefi.
As well as having windows restart with advance settings and going to uefi settings, making sure to do a full, and not hybrid, shutdown each time. More than likely you either did not clone the efi system partition over, or it lost its id as an efi system. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the hard disk. Clonezilla failing on new systems with 7th generation intel processors mini spy. Make sure the windows 10 disk is free of ntfs disk errors by running chkdsk c. On the source computer, insert the usb thumb drive into one of the front panels top black usb ports, and insert the usb external hdd separately into the blue usb 3. Additionally, it is able to clone hard drives regardless of its partition style. This tutorial article provides you an effective method to help you clone uefi disk to ssd on windows 10, 8 or 7 without any boot problems. So i had to convert my existing sata ssd that housed my windows 10 installation from mbr to gpt. Really the easiest way is to have a single volume license key for windows 8. As a test for using clonezilla with windows 10, i built a windows 10 machine, and booted to the clonezilla livecd to create an image across the network on our file server. Follow to see how to clone uefi hard drive with ease by using easeus disk copy.
How to properly clone a windows 7 system partition with. If your machine comes with uefi secure boot enabled, you have to use amd64 x8664. By using another free software drblwinroll, which is also developed by us, the hostname, group, and sid of cloned ms windows machine can be automatically changed. Restored the august partition without a problem and run all updates again. Use author link for advanced users who want to choose a specific version for their needs. Clonezilla imaging and windows oem license ms licensing. Use the device dropdown menu and select the usb flash drive. This video focuses on removing secure boot and enabling legacy boot, then booting the live clonezilla usb. The best uefi disk cloning software aomei backupper standard is one powerful freeware that has the ability to do uefi disk clone as boot drive or data drive. Once you have the clonezilla live iso or zip file, please follow this live cd usb doc to put it on the boot media, and follow this live docs to use it. The biosuefi can be different depending on the manufacturer and. Has anyone successfully used clonezilla in surface pro 3.
From ms windows, run the unetbootin program and follow the instructions in the gui to install clonezilla live on your usb flash drive. All versions of clonezilla live support machine with legacy bios. Windows 8 however is a more complicated beast in this respect and accessing the bios isnt as simple as hitting a key as the pc boots. I did make sure i got the one for efi from the clonezilla site. Clonezilla is a free partition or disk clone tool similar to norton ghost and partition image. Under the download section, click the download link for the latest version. Clonezilla failing on new systems with 7th generation. In the aspect of disk cloning, clonezilla requires the target disk ssd in the article should be equal or larger than the source disk hdd. My problems start to arise after i apply the image. I am using clonezilla to clone a windows 10 enterprise 64 bit lenovo m810z and have cloned the drive successfully using the latest amd64 version of alternative ubuntubased version of clonezilla in uefi mode.
Im not sure which kernel clonezilla uses, so i dont know which hba cards will work with it. How to clone a windows 10 installation to a new drive using. Fortunately, with windows 10 creators edition, thats fairly simple. On the next boot, start mashing the f12 key again and this time select uefi. We provide official cd and usb key images on the website.
I then try all the key on the keyboard to try to get to bios uefi it is a uefi board. Cloned drive will not boot solved windows 10 forums. How to properly clone a windows 7 system partition with clonezilla after reading an article about hard disk cloning with clonezilla on lifehacker, i decided to take care of my laptops dire need of free space by buying a new, larger internal hard disk instead of buying an external one to replace its current one. I assume that your latest will boot the new uefi secure boot machines and backuprestore, as always. To download clonezilla live, select the following cpu architecture, file type, repository, then click the download button. I havent set one of those up myself so i dont know pain points with it, but youre running a standard linux server. Now, given that all i savedrestored was the partition with windows on it, then i guess its possible that clonezilla in general has issues with setting up gpt formats and therefore this might explain why people suggest using this uefi. You can use clonezilla to clone drive with an installation of windows 10. How to use clonezilla to clone windows 10 to ssdhdd.
Otherwise create at least a 200 mb partition on your usb flash drive and format it with a fat16fat32 or ntfs file system. The only way ive gotten clonezilla to work with latitude 74807490 in uefi mode is. What raid cards does clonezilla support linux forum. It can be used in both microsoft windows os and gnulinux. How to create a bootable clone of your windows 10 drive. Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging cloning program with extensive features. The clonezilla project creates and provides its software free of charge. Problem is, the new windows 10 machines have arrived and now we need to reconfigure clonezilla for windows 10. Btw, for windows 10, you have to make sure it is completely shut down so that it can. Weird issue with windows 10 image restore using clonezilla. How to image and clone hard drives with clonezilla. However, to run clonezilla, a lot of free and open source software, e.
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