{"id":2990,"date":"2011-08-31T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2011-11-15T17:38:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:38:33","slug":"cloning-a-windows-system-disk-using-nothing-but-free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/cloning-a-windows-system-disk-using-nothing-but-free-software.htm","title":{"rendered":"Cloning a Windows system disk using nothing but free software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/using-windows-to-remove-a-mac-os-x-efi-partition-from-a-disk.htm\">replacing the hard disk in my server at home<\/a>, I needed to clone the operating system between two drives. As my Windows Server installation consists of two partitions (my C: and a 100MB system reserved partition), I couldn&#8217;t use Microsoft&#8217;s disk imaging tool (<code>imagex.exe<\/code>) as it only works on single partitions (i.e.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en\/itprovistadeployment\/thread\/85c98cf2-513e-4a4c-b926-4f512be15c6e\">it&#8217;s not possible to image multiple partitions in a single operation<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I could have used commercial software like Symantec Ghost but I figured there must be a legitimate, free, way to do this by now and it turns out there is &#8211; I used the open source <a href=\"http:\/\/clonezilla.org\">Clonezilla<\/a> utility (<a href=\"http:\/\/downloadsquad.switched.com\/2008\/09\/05\/5-free-apps-to-clone-your-hard-drive\/\">I also considered some alternatives<\/a>\u00a0but found that some needed to be installed and I wanted something that would leave no trace on the system).<\/p>\n<p>I had some issues at first &#8211; for some reason my machine wouldn&#8217;t boot from the CD I created but I found the best way was to install Clonezilla on the target disk.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, I put the new disk in a USB HDD docking station and created a 200MB FAT partition on it. Next, I downloaded the .ZIP version of CloneZilla and copied the files to the new disk. I then ran <code>\/utils\/win32\/makeboot.bat<\/code> to make the disk bootable (it&#8217;s important to run makeboot.bat from the new disk, not from the .ZIP file on the local system disk). The last step (which I didn&#8217;t see in <a href=\"http:\/\/clonezilla.org\/liveusb.php\">the instructions<\/a> and spent quite a bit of time troubleshooting) is to make the new disk active (using Disk Management or <code>diskpart.exe<\/code>).<\/p>\n<p>With Clonezilla installed on my &#8220;new&#8221; disk, I <a href=\"http:\/\/clonezilla.org\/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=.\/clonezilla-live\/doc\/03_Disk_to_disk_clone\">connected it to the server and booted from this disk, electing to load CloneZilla into RAM and overwrite it as part of the cloning process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I then left it to run for a few minutes before removing the old disk and rebooting back into Windows Server.<\/p>\n<p>(Quite why I&#8217;m still running a Windows Server at home, I&#8217;m not sure&#8230; I don&#8217;t really <em>need<\/em> an Active Directory and for DNS, DHCP and TFTP I really should switch to Linux&#8230; I guess Windows is just what I know best&#8230; it&#8217;s comfortable!)<\/p>\n<p>Three gotchas to be aware of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t make the Clonezilla partition active you won&#8217;t be able to boot from it (basic, I know, but it&#8217;s not in the instructions that I followed).<\/li>\n<li>Clonezilla clones the partitions as they are (i.e. it&#8217;s a <em>clone<\/em> &#8211; and there is no resizing to use additional space on the disk) &#8211; it&#8217;s easy to expand the volume later, but if you&#8217;re moving to a smaller disk, you may have to shrink the existing partition(s) before cloning.<\/li>\n<li>The AMD64 version of Clonezilla hung at the calculating bitmap stage of the Partclone process , with a seemily random remaining time and 0% progress. I left this for several hours (on two occasions) and it did not complete (it appeared to write the partition structure to the disk, but not to transfer any data). \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/clonezilla\/forums\/forum\/394751\/topic\/4513250\">The &#8220;fix&#8221; seems to be to use the i686 version of Clonezilla<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the process of replacing the hard disk in my server at home, I needed to clone the operating system between two drives. 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