![]() This was not bit for bit copy, I often vary drive sizing too. Think that was the one that acted like Windows before booting Linux. I even tried pulling a drive and cloning it on another non-EFI machine, bizarre results and a failed boot. You'd think server and desktop Windows would act much the same but I didn't always find that to be the case (sigh). I too have a need to backup/restore on bare metal often and into different drives except I need support for Linux, desktop Windows, and server Windows. It's been a few months so I cannot give exact errors or steps but it sure sucked.Īcronis, Clonezilla (much less friendly), and something called FOG, all looked interesting to me although FOG says Windows only (bummer). I'd be interested to hear if others have encountered this. Since I'd been the one to spec the new "improved" replacement machines it was pretty embarrassing to have to revert! Clonezilla was fine for making images but they refused to boot and even Acronis restores warned me I'd have to rerun Grub when working with Linux. At least Acronis 2012 appeared EFI aware. it was more cost effective than burning hours trying to solve this. I worked on this for awhile before simply yanking all of the new updated hardware in favor of our previous non-EFI machines. I actually got a Windows screen offering safe boot and when I selected continue normally it booted the Linux distro I'd installed! I was seeing entries in the BIOS listing various OS, not having used EFI much this was a surprise and not something I've seen on my own machines. ![]() Old versions of Linux refused to even install and newer versions tweaked the EFI and refused to recover. A new version of Acronis backed up and restored but I think only XP booted. Clonezilla could see it but restoration failed. Our older Acronis software wouldn't even see the disk. I had to do exactly what you're doing in a lab situation with HP machines that used EFI. EaseUS Todo Backup Server 199.00/ year for a single license for 1 PC, 99.50 for an upgrade. ![]() EaseUS Todo Backup Workstation 39.00 /year for a single license for 1 PC, 19.50 for an upgrade. I know there must be other newer programs out there that allows all this across the LAN, right? Well thanks.and I'll keep looking myself.ĭoes your machine use EFI? If so I strongly suggest testing a recovery on a spare drive. EaseUS Todo Backup Home 29.95 /year for a single license for 1 PC or Mac, 14.50 for an upgrade. Hell, maybe I should look into using GHOST. Boot from a USB flash device and load up network drivers and a small GUI then select what ISO/image to load on the hard drive. What I would like even better would be to keep the image on a network share and then load that image on my hard drive across the network. Its not that important to where I need to spend any money on it. What programs are out there that would enable me to create an entire image of my hard drive and then let me boot from a CD and re-image my hard drive back? I'm using Windows 8 and checking to see if Windows 8 has anything built in that does that. Since I'm always reformatting my computer and reinstalling the OS all the time I figured I would try and cut down on the time it takes. I installed Windows 8 and my primary programs I will always need and use. I figured I would ask here and other favorite forums.
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