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Re: Making a hard drive image

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Axel wrote:
> Axel wrote:
>> Axel wrote:
>>>
>>> I want a full back up of my 500Gb NVME disk. I tried Foxclone, but I 
>>> found that the image can only be written back to the original drive, 
>>> which pretty much negates it's usefulness. I want an image of the 
>>> NVME drive I can use on any disk to create a working drive. I tried 
>>> the Disks app, and discovered it doesn't compress the image, and 
>>> since the image created is a bit over 500 Gb, I can only write it to 
>>> a drive larger than 500Gb. (sigh) I think the problem is that the 
>>> NVME drive is actually a fraction over 500Gb, since if I try to 
>>> clone it to a 500Gb drive I get a message that the receptor drive is 
>>> too small. I was told I can reduce the partition on the NVME drive 
>>> to make a smaller image, but I'm afraid to do that in case I lose 
>>> data. I will try Rescuezilla, but if that doesn't compress the image 
>>> there's no gain from that. Does anyone have any better suggestions 
>>> for what I can do? thanks to all. :)
>>>
>>
>> thanks for all replies, I will investigate them. for now, this is 
>> what I have done. successfully created an image of the NVME using 
>> rescuezilla. successfully wrote that to a 500Gb SSD, but it won't 
>> boot. Disks shows there are no files in the main partition: 
>> https://auslink.info/linux/copy.png
>> this is the nvme i copied from: https://auslink.info/linux/nvme.png
>> ???
>>
>
> p.s. this is the image I made. if that helps? 
> https://auslink.info/linux/image.png
>

solved! I mounted the 'empty' partition using Disks and the files are 
all there https://auslink.info/linux/mounted.png, so I tried the disk in 
a different PC, and it works perfectly. issue was the first PC I tried 
was using legacy bios. thanks everyone,

-- 
Linux Mint 22.3

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        Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 18:30 +1000
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          Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 18:26 +1000
          Re: Making a hard drive image Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-04 08:33 +0000
        Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 18:06 +1000
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