[ubuntu-uk] Using Clonezilla to image thinkpad hard drive before installing Ubuntu

[Simon Greenwood]

On 8 June 2012 16:53, kpb <kpb at sohcahtoa.org.uk> wrote:

> Hello All
>
> One for any Thinkpad owners using Ubuntu
>
> Just bought a second hand Thinkpad X200s, and it runs Ubuntu 12.04 from a
> USB stick really nicely, with the basics working fine (I mainly need
> suspend to ram).
>
> I'd like to be able to restore the hard drive including the recovery
> partition to its original state in case I want to pass the laptop on (came
> with Vista Business).
>
> I've used clonezilla to image the whole drive including the mbr, using
> these shortform instructions
>
>
> http://www.forwestmedia.com/resources/how-to-guides/using-clonezilla-to-create-and-restore-disk-images/
>
> I have reason to believe the result will be restorable, see
>
> http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=75378
>
> especially the last post on that page.
>
> Anyone done this? Had any issues restoring?
>
>
I've used Clonezilla and it works fine on most machines. Realistically you
could just leave the restore partition on the disk as it boots Windows to
do the restore process.

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