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When I use clonezilla to clone M$ windows, there is no any problem when saving an image from template machine. However, after the image is restored to another machine, it fails to boot, the error message is "Missing Operating System". What's going on ?
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+When I use clonezilla to clone MS windows, there is no any problem when saving an image from template machine. However, after the image is restored to another machine, it fails to boot, the error message is "Missing Operating System" or just a blinking underscore. What's going on ?
Usually this is because GNU/Linux and M$ windows interpret the CHS (cylinder, head, sector) value of harddrive differently. Some possible solutions:
1. Maybe you can change the IDE harddrive setting in BIOS, try to use LBA instead of auto mode.
- 2. Try to choose
- [ ] -j0 Use dd to create partition table instead of sfdisk
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- [ ] -t1 Client restores the prebuilt MBR from syslinux (For Windows only)
- when you restore the image.
- 3. You can try to boot the machine with MS Windows 9x bootable floppy, and in the DOS command prompt, run: "fdisk /mbr".
- 4. You can try to boot the machine with MS Windows XP installation CD, enter recovery mode (by pressing F10 key in MS XP, for example), then in the console, run "fixmbr" to fix it. Maybe another command "fixboot" will help, too. For more info, refer to this doc
- 5. Use ntfsreloc to adjust FS geometry on NTFS partitions. For more info, refer to http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=contrib:ntfsreloc
It has been confirmed that activating the -j0 option, fixes the problem.
+It has been confirmed that activating the -j0 option, usually fixes the problem.
This option doesn't work if you use LVM (Logical Volume Manager).