Clonezilla W7 64bit with Bitlocker

[Bánh mì]

I tried to clone a dual boot Vista 32/ W7 64 dual boot drive with Clonezilla. Both OS paritions are protected by respective versions of Bitlocker. However it was uncessful. Procedure was leave old HDD in same HD slot and clone using Clonezilla on USB to new HDD in the Ultrabay. When I reboot the Thinkpad BIOS seems to identify the new drive (so its not a HDD connecton issue) but shows "no OS found." Can someone tell me what is wrong? First conclusion I made myself is because Bitlocker is enabled Clonezilla can't image the whole drive successfully. However, I did see in the Clonezilla GUI something about file system not being compatible and that it would image/copy the parition sector by sector. Can someone illuminate on what is wrong and point me in the right direction? This is for a T61.

[topmahof]

I do a lot of cloning and I found it works a lot better when the destination drive is in the laptop. Very rarely have I been able to clone a drive to usb.

Bitlocker might be the problem, but I would try putting the destination drive in the laptop and clone to it there first. If it still doesn't work, then I would start looking at the bitlocker.

Dave

[Bánh mì]

Hi thanks for your expeditious response. I should clarify that I left the old HDD in the normal slot and put the new HDD in the UltraBay (in lieu of the CD-RW). I then set the BIOS to boot from USB with Clonezilla on the USB.

Someone had said somewhere I read on the Internet to put the old drive in the UltraBay and the new one in the normal HDD slot and clone that way. I didn't do that but am wondering why it would make a difference.

[topmahof]

I really don't know why, I just know it works a lot better with the destination drive in the laptop and the source drive on usb or in the ultrabase. Sometimes it works the way you're trying to do it, but not often.

Sometimes the destination drive won't clone unless it's in a usb enclosure or in the ultrabase. Not often, but once in a great while and I don't know why. I've always been able to clone the drives, but sometimes I have to switch them around and try the other way before they work.

Dave

[Bánh mì]

I think its a BL issue. Any other people can help?