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To all - I might not get back to this project for a few days. But anyone who can help on my Clonezilla questions should post in the following two threads related to Clonezilla: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/clonezilla-cant-find-disk-image-696785/ and https://sourceforge.ne...

Frodo - not stupid. I'll try what you say later this week. Thanks.

vbox4me2 - Thanks for the tip. I just played with the filters to add both my external hard drives (connected via USB). VM certainly pulled the ownership information from them for the filters, but there is no change to the error messages. Also added the relevant folders, playing with Auto-Mount on an...

Mr. Becker - Noted. However, maybe the question also relates to other "restores". If any cloning or backup program expects the image to be in a particular place, where is that place when you're working in a VM? Maybe there's a way to put a copy of the image in that mysterious place?

hey, everyone - Let's take a closer look at the SECOND Clonezilla error message above. It says "No disk image is found in /home/partimag.. " Does that mean that the existing Clonezilla image of my Win98SE HD is simply in the wrong place? Where is " /home/partimag.. " when I'm in ...

But Frodo, that's exactly what I've been trying to do! The Clonezilla image of my Win98SE HD is on my USB external hard drive. Please read this from start. Problem is that when I boot VB using Clonezilla, I get the error messages above - VB doesn't find the external drive and (I suppose) that means ...

vbox4me2 - Just saw your post. ... But you could consider buying a backup program such as ghost that lets you make a bootable CD/DVD where everything would be written to, you'd create a VM with 1 vdi and mount that resque cd/dvd and restore inside the VM, done. ea.: http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl...

Well, guys, I just tried Oracle VB for the first time. I like the look, but as expected my initial hopes were dashed. Here's the report (as expected): VB does indeed boot off an iso of Clonezilla. But when I try to "restore" my image of my Win98SE laptop (previously made by Clonezilla and ...

My God, this is COMPLICATED! It makes me want to just print everything off my old laptop and throw it out the window. Mpack, timelord, Etepetete and vbox4me2 and others here - many thanks for taking the time to write and proof your nicely detailed discussions. But if I hide myself away for the week ...

Etepetete, you wrote here on 9. Mar 2011, 06:58 I would suggest booting from a Linux live CD such as Knoppix and using the dd program to make a raw image of the Laptop's hard drive to an external HDD and then converting the raw image using CloneVDI. Beware, the dd program is very powerful and the sy...

Well - I made the image of the old laptop using Clonezilla. A combination of running MHDD with scan-remap, twice, the second time showing no bad sectors, and then discovering I had failed to put an asterisk in "repair" in Clonezilla. (I'm SO embarrassed!) See the attached jpeg for a screen...

Hey - vbox4me2 - Thanks. Your first suggestion is premature for me, as I must first wrestle with bum sectors on my old laptop. Is there a tutorial anywhere that will give me a step-by-step for making Clonezilla skip or repair the bad sectors? I found expert-rescue but it didn't go all the way to the...

dlgn wrote:As another option, you could use the raw hard disk. http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk

dlgn - thanks for suggestion. I might try that later, although your link warns of danger and risk. Any thoughts on my latest post at 1:35pm?

To all: Well, I started last night, first by trying to make an image of my old laptop Win98SE hard drive. Started by downloading Clonezilla, a daunting program to a non-techy like myself. I made the bootable CD and was able to get Clonezilla running on my laptop in the default and beginner modes, bu...

Gentlemen! To your corners!

You've both been helpful.

What flavor of VB is good for me - OSE or PUEL? My host is WinXPPro SP3 and as you know my first Guest will be Win98SE. My second Guest might be Win2000Pro SP4 and maybe some day a Guest of WinXPPro.

Thanks.