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    ISO images bootable only in Legacy BIOS OR (!) UEFI ? Decision at ISO creation time or at storage on USB flash drive?

    As you known there are many sofwtare tools available which offer not only a setup.exe but an ISO to download. This ISO can either be burned on a CD/DVD or put onto an USB Flash drive. I am NOT talking about Win10 ISO images but other software like (examples): - Gparted GParted -- Live...
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    booting to external drive

    For years I’ve used Clonezilla on external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: First, using Gparted I make two partitions on an external drive, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition to store the images. Next I use...
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    Windows 8 Couple of questions before cloning W8

    Hello I'd like to save an image of Windows 8 onto a second partition using Clonezilla, and have a couple of questions before proceeding: 1. Why does W8 create two partitions (350MB and 147.3GB) instead of just one? 2. When running fdisk in Linux, why does it display so many /dev/ramX...
  4. Windows 10 How to correctly make an image backup of all UEFI partitions with Secure Boot ?

    So I've been looking everywhere for this and in the end I still can't find rock-solid info. So I've just installed Windows 10 Pro in UEFI mode with Secure Boot enable and now I've got 4 partitions: Normally, I would just "ghost" my C partition and be done with it with Legacy boot but now with...
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    Windows XP clone Win XP internal drive and upgrade to Win 7

    Maybe there are threads and posts that explain this exactly but I haven't found them yet. Here is what I need to do as simply as possible. Have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop - I'd like to clone the internal drive with a Windows XP Pro installation. I'd like to clone it to an external USB hard...
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    Windows 7 Migrating Win7x64 from HW-RAID1 to SSD

    Hi, This is my system: win7 prof 64bit installed. Motherboard: Asus P8H67 CPU Sockel: LGA1155 RAM: 8 GB Intel-RAID-Controller RAID1 configured with two 2TB HDDs Single 2TB HDD (or additional backups) The Win Instalation resides on a RAID1 partition (100GB). My new SSD ist a Samsung...
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    Windows 7 Moving Unallocated Space PAST Recovery Partition, OR destroying Recovery all together

    So, I have Unallocated space at the very end of my hard drive, even after the 25gb Recovery Partition, this is due to copying my old hard drive onto this new one via Clonezilla, and it automatically keeping the unallocated space at the end. Can I either move the unallocated space around the...
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    Windows 7 W7 no longer boots after restored from Clonezilla image

    [SOLVED] W7 no longer boots after restored from Clonezilla image Hello After restoring an image made with Clonezilla that used to work, Windows 7 is unable to start. When prompted, I used the DVD, but it still fails with "Startup Repair could not detect a problem". When rebooting, it says...
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    Windows 7 eSATA drive won't appear on system although it would previously

    About a week ago, I replaced the optical drive on my fairly-new Samsung notebook (model NP300-V5A-A02US) with one of these: Link Removed All it really does is turn the internal SATA data connector for the optical drive into an eSATA socket. It worked well for most of last week. I was able to...
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    Windows 7 Transferring a Windows 7 installation from one drive to another

    Hello there, My Uncle bought a new HDD and wanted to migrate his Windows 7 Installation from its original HDD to the new one (Maxtor to Hitachi). A tech friend of mine recommended CloneZilla, a freeware imaging program which would allow me to make an image of the HDD and transfer it to another...
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    Windows 7 How to make a recovery partition

    I deleted my recovery partition that my OEM created because i thought i didn't need it because i had the install dvd and thought it is useless for me . Then i read on the internet the benefits from that recovery partition . That partition has been heavily rewritten so there''s no way to get...
  12. Windows 7 [Guide] Using Clonezilla-Live as a backup solution

    Hi folks, I've been using Clonezilla-Live for awhile now to create images of my Win 7 and other OS installs. Clonezilla provides the peace of mind that only a bit by bit image backup regimen can provide (IMHO). It does have a learning curve however. I've created a guide to using Clonezilla...
  13. Windows 7 Getting rid of XP

    Hi Folks, I'm posting this to illustrate how I replaced\removed XP from my system in favor of Win 7. First some background. I've been using Win 7 since the beta as part of a multiboot setup on my Acer laptop. The other MS OS was my old XP install. My old XP was located at the...
  14. Windows 7 A new and improved Clonezilla imaging tool

    As some of you may know I've been using Clonezilla for a few months as my primary backup (imaging program). Clonezilla replaced the Partimage I had been using for years. It is much more flexible. The version I originally began using was Clonezilla-live1.2.3-27. Because most live programs work...