Clonezilla Windows 10 Support
All versions of Clonezilla live support machine with legacy BIOS. If your machine comes with uEFI secure boot enabled, you have to use AMD64 version of (either Debian-based or Ubuntu-based) Clonezilla live. Checksum files are GPG signed by DRBL project, which has the fingerprint: 54C0 821A 4871 5DAF D61B FCAF 6678 57D0 4559 9AFD. Oct 23, 2017 What hard drive clone software works with Windows 10. Does anyone know of hard drive cloning and maintenance products that support Windows 10 and would work on Seagate drives? I've used the Open Source Clonezilla as part of Parted Magic which has worked very well on a variety of HDDs and SSDs, though I haven't used it on Seagate but. That’s all for Clonezilla Partclone Windows 7/8/10. Partclone cannot help you backup, restore or clone your partition. If you want to achieve the goal, the free tool - AOMEI Backupper Standard is the way to go. It can help you backup/restore/clone your important partition easily and quickly.
This question is a (belated) follow-up to my previous question about restoring Windows 10 to an empty disk using a Windows recovery USB. That, unfortunately, isn't possible.
Now, I'm hoping to make a complete image of the drive (an SSD on /dev/nvme0n1), delete all partitions and the partition table and clear the drive completely, do some other things (install Linux, etc.), then, if necessary, wipe the drive and partition table again and restore the image to get Windows 10 back to its current state.
Is this possible with Clonezilla, or will the structure that Microsoft uses on the disk cause problems, e.g. the separate boot and recovery partitions?
I'm asking instead of just trying this myself because if I try this and the restore doesn't work, I've completely hosed this machine as far as Windows is concerned, and since it's an OEM installation, I don't have any installation media to restore it back to its original state.
If this is possible, is there anything specific I should be aware of when I make the image? Any special command I need to use with Clonezilla? Like I said, I'm trying to get all the details ironed out before I attempt this and possibly screw up the machine.
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Can Clonezilla restore a Windows 10 image to a completely empty drive?
Absolutely! CloneZilla performs bit-for-bit imaging of whatever you instruct it to back up, whether that be a single partition or an entire drive.
According to CloneZilla's product description page:
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Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the hard disk. This increases the clone efficiency.
So technically it only does bit-for-bit copy over occupied portions of the disk (which gets 100% of the data on the disk), but if you have a lot of extra time on your hands and are feeling a little paranoid, you can force CloneZilla to do a sector-by-sector copy in Advanced mode by enabling the -q1 switch.
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To copy an installation of Windows 10 to another drive (or back to the same drive) you'll want to image the entire disk. This will capture the several partitions that make up an instance of Windows. Also, when restoring the image be sure to answer Yes to the question about restoring the boot loader.
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