I’m having a specific problem when using a bootable Clonezilla Live 3.1.1.27 USB with my Windows 11 PC.
The PC has a single drive (SSD) with nine partitions. Four of these are for Windows and the other five are for my data. I’d like to use one of those data partitions to store a Clonezilla image of the four OS partitions, such that I can restore the four OS partitions only to a known state – without affecting the existence or contents of the data partitions. From what I’ve read it seems that Clonezilla ought to be able to do this in ‘Beginner Mode.’
At this stage I’m still storing my images on a separate external HDD rather than using the internal one as I’d like to. But even when doing that I always have the same problem, which is that the restore process doesn’t just restore the partitions that I’ve asked it to – it also appears to erase the contents of all the other partitions too. (OK so strictly speaking the data might still be there. But it no longer appears when I use Windows to look in the data partitions. So for practical purposes it’s gone.)
I’ve tried every permutation of 'savedisk', 'saveparts', 'restoredisk', and 'restoreparts' that looks as if it might do what I want. And without exception they all appear to execute without any problems. The scrolling screen text tells me that I’m restoring the four partitions that I want to. And everything looks sweet. But when the process is finished I examine my data partitions and find that my data is gone.
Can anyone confirm whether Clonezilla can actually do what I’m wanting, and which exact operations (i.e. savedisk, saveparts, restoredisk, restoreparts) are supposed to do it? If anyone can throw any light on what I might be dong wrong that would be great too.'