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Crystal diskmark install directory3/17/2023 Episode 3: Clonezilla, in true Linux style, throws cryptic, show-stopping errorsġDuring the Clonezilla wizard, choose backup to Samba server. Give up on tuxboot, and manually copy the. Question my sanity did I really disable Secure Boot? Check that Secure Boot is actually disabled. Get a blank screen with a blinking terminal prompt. tuxboot just sucks.ĢSpend one hour total trying to boot successfully from the Clonezilla stick. I’d learn later that disabling Secure Boot wasn’t necessary at all. The USB drive now appears, but as a legacy boot device. Check the different options listed, and change the boot mode to UEFI, Secure Boot Disabled. tuxboot, ClonezillaġPress F12 while the Dell is booting and try to boot from the USB drive. Here’s what it’s like to use Clonezilla 2.5.0 “stable”: Episode 2: Dell UEFI vs. □Īfter seeing the screenshot, Jonah recommended Clonezilla, so per Clonezilla’s recommendation, I downloaded tuxboot 0.8.3 and created a bootable Clonezilla amd64 USB stick. At that point I gave up, and questioned how Microsoft managed to make it that slow, and why I bothered using the built-in utility in the first place. In all, I waited six hours (6!) for the utility to reach a paltry 37%. I was busy with other work so I was willing to give it some time. This is what happens when Telegram auto-compresses a 4K screenshot. Sorry for potato quality I didn’t save the original screenshot. Windows Backup’s irregular network/disk access. I took a screenshot and sent it to Jonah for some sanity checking. The Performance tab now shows regular spikes at 800 Mbps, with the same drops to 0, and no steady throughput. I gave in to scepticism anyway and switched to Ethernet (using the Dell USB-C DA200 which I found on eBay for $45). Should I blame the WiFi? I checked packet statistics on my WiFi AP and confirmed that the Dell’s 3x3 11ac card is reliably transmitting (but not receiving) packets at 1.3 Gbps. Once I started the backup, Windows Task Manager Performance tab showed regular spikes to 300–400 Mbps and drops to 0 in other words, no steady throughput. Windows Recovery natively supports restoring the system images it creates, so I should be able to avoid making special USB boot drives of recovery software. In my case, I only cared about the system files and partitions.
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