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Winclone: trouble making an image

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emma87

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Hi everyone

Until recently, I could make an image of my bootcamp partition with Winclone w/o trouble.

I have currently Lion and Winclone 2.3.3 and I cannot manage to make an image, can someone help me on the matter? The log is posted at the bottom.

Thank you in advance.:D

Winclone Log:
99.93 percent completed
100.00 percent completed
Accounting clusters ...
Cluster accounting failed at 10916433 (0xa69251): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 10916434 (0xa69252): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 10916435 (0xa69253): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 10916436 (0xa69254): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 10916437 (0xa69255): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 10916438 (0xa69256): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 10916439 (0xa69257): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 10916440 (0xa69258): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 10916441 (0xa69259): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 21194498 (0x1436702): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Totally 11 cluster accounting mismatches.
ERROR: Filesystem check failed! Windows wasn't shutdown properly or inconsistent
filesystem. Please run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE.
return value of "/Library/NTFSProgs/ntfsclone" -f -f -O /dev/disk3 "/dev/disk0s4" 1>&2 is 256

"/Library/NTFSProgs/ntfsclone" -f -f -O /dev/disk3 "/dev/disk0s4" 1>&2 did not complete successfully
cleaning up: Mounting Disk
Volume BOOTCAMP on /dev/disk0s4 mounted
Wed Dec 21 18:25:39 CET 2011

P.S. I ran chkdsk and it doesn't change anything.
 
Huntn

Huntn

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I've been using Winclone 2.2 before the start of the year without issue. Now I'm getting errors too. Without changing anything else I downloaded v2.3 (the last free version) which is now tough to find. Most of the mirrors direct you to the new paid version 3.0. However I found a copy here. It downloaded, installed, and is running a clone of my bootcamp partition as I speak. :) I'll report back if there are any problems. Note, I am using Snow Leopard. For Lion you need v3.
 
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marikavs

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Winclone

Huntn said:
I've been using Winclone 2.2 before the start of the year without issue. Now I'm getting errors too. Without changing anything else I downloaded v2.3 (the last free version) which is now tough to find. Most of the mirrors direct you to the new paid version 3.0. However I found a copy here. It downloaded, installed, and is running a clone of my bootcamp partition as I speak. :) I'll report back if there are any problems. Note, I am using Snow Leopard. For Lion you need v3.
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Thanks for that link! I too have Winclone 2.2 on Snow Leopard. Haven't dared try imaging from "new" (hand-me-down) laptop yet, so I'm eagerly awaiting your results (even w/o problems.) What I'm especially interested in is if it Restored OK.
 
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marikavs said:
Thanks for that link! I too have Winclone 2.2 on Snow Leopard. Haven't dared try imaging from "new" (hand-me-down) laptop yet, so I'm eagerly awaiting your results (even w/o problems.) What I'm especially interested in is if it Restored OK.
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Yes it worked in that version 2.3 is running on Snow Leopard and created a backup! However, I'm only going to know how this program restores once my feet are in the fire and I have too. I don't want to try a restore until there is no other choice. :)
 
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marikavs

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Huntn said:
Yes it worked in that version 2.3 is running on Snow Leopard and created a backup! However, I'm only going to know how this program restores once my feet are in the fire and I have too. I don't want to try a restore until there is no other choice. :)
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Thank you! Nothing ventured... as they say. I will try it later (no more time just now) on my "botched" XP on this machine and if the restore works I will re-clone my old "unbotched" Windows XP Pro installation (don't have the XP disc with me to do a re-install) on another, lesser, machine and restore it to this one. I'd have to update it first, though so it's really going to take some time...
 
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marikavs said:
Thank you! Nothing ventured... as they say. I will try it later (no more time just now) on my "botched" XP on this machine and if the restore works I will re-clone my old "unbotched" Windows XP Pro installation (don't have the XP disc with me to do a re-install) on another, lesser, machine and restore it to this one. I'd have to update it first, though so it's really going to take some time...
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Please report the results and quote me so I get a notification. :):)
 
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marikavs

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Done and it worked

Huntn said:
Please report the results and quote me so I get a notification. :):)
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Done; It worked. I'm now on my second backup with 2.3.3. So far so good.

Sorry it took me so long to report. I had trouble finding this thread again...
 
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marikavs

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Oops!

Huntn said:
Thanks much! :):)
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Oops--not so fast. Sorry. I made the "mistake" of overwriting the backup that had once worked as a restore. (Didn't think it was a mistake at the time...) Now I can't make the new one restore at all. It seems I neglected to restart twice after a chkdsk /f before I used the new version of Winclone. Why that should make a difference I don't know. Of course, the old version which I had saved won't restore it either. Once you make a mistake...
So now, after all manner of trying to resuscitate my bootcamped Windows XP Pro SP3 (my original XP disc is too far away to consider a re-install or even repair, which didn't work from a slipstreamed SP2 disc) I've resorted to cloning the not-up-to-date BootCamp installation on my old Macbook (using version 2.2) to an external USB drive. That's still in the process of running--and I have kept the "failed" clone, so if you or somebody else have/has ideas on how to resurrect it I'd welcome them.
 
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marikavs said:
Oops--not so fast. Sorry. I made the "mistake" of overwriting the backup that had once worked as a restore. (Didn't think it was a mistake at the time...) Now I can't make the new one restore at all. It seems I neglected to restart twice after a chkdsk /f before I used the new version of Winclone. Why that should make a difference I don't know. Of course, the old version which I had saved won't restore it either. Once you make a mistake...
So now, after all manner of trying to resuscitate my bootcamped Windows XP Pro SP3 (my original XP disc is too far away to consider a re-install or even repair, which didn't work from a slipstreamed SP2 disc) I've resorted to cloning the not-up-to-date BootCamp installation on my old Macbook (using version 2.2) to an external USB drive. That's still in the process of running--and I have kept the "failed" clone, so if you or somebody else have/has ideas on how to resurrect it I'd welcome them.
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Unfortunately that is beyond my technical knowledge. :( I take the time to make backups, but in the back of my mind wonder if they will be there for me if I ever need them...
 
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marikavs

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All's well that ends well...

Huntn said:
I take the time to make backups, ...
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Just make sure you have a viable backup by running chkdsk /f (or /x) and restarting twice (ahem, time consuming, I know) before you do the cloning. Well worth it, as I just learned. :D
(I had to re-activate, re-install the drivers and re-update to get it working this time--even a re-install takes its sweet time.) Also, I would suggest having two alternating backups if you can, and not foolishly overwrite the old one like I did.

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emma87 said:
P.S. I ran chkdsk and it doesn't change anything.
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I hope you're reading [my] exchange with Huntn! I hope it helps.
 
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joec1101

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I never had any luck using the older "freeware" (<version 3), but I can tell you the new version 3 works flawlessly with both imaging and restoring. I've used it twice now with 100% success.

It's no longer free, but the $20.00 investment was well worth saving time, IMO.
 
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