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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt
by Eigeldinger Simon 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

Hi Andrew, This laptop came with win 10 as far as I know and was downgraded to win 7. Seems the disk wasn't properly whiped. Thanks, Greetings, Simon Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems T: +43 5576 7101-1143 | E: simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at | www.hohenems.at Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Im Auftrag von Andrew Hodgson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Jänner 2018 13:11 An: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Betreff: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt Hi, I saw this when installing Windows 7 on a machine that had Windows 8 on it and in that case I knew the machine was MBR so could fix this. The thing is you really need to know why the GPT partition table may be there in the first place to understand the implication of removing either of the partition tables. Every time I do a new installation like this now I do diskpart clean on the boot volume. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Eigeldinger Simon [simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at] Sent: 11 January 2018 06:52 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt Hi all, I wanted to backup a win 7 64 bit laptop which has been recently been reinstalled. Now clonezilla gives me that error: The selected devices: sda This disk contains mismatched GPT and MBR partition: /dev/sda It will confuse Clonezilla and might make the saved image useless or fail to clo ne the disk. You can use gdisk or sgdisk to fix this issue. E.g. if you are sure only MBR par tition table is the one you want, you can run this command to destroy the GPT pa rtition table while keep the MBR partition table: sudo sgdisk -z /dev/sdx //NOTE// (1) Replace /dev/sdx with the above hard drive name. (2) ALL EXISTING D ATA ON THE DISK WILL BE LOST IF GIVING WRONG COMMAND. USE THIS COMMAND CAREFULLY ! Please fix this issue then restart Clonezilla again. Program terminated!! Press "Enter" to continue...... Is that dangerous when i remove the gpt partition? Has someone done that without any issues? Greetings and thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt
by Eigeldinger Simon 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

Hi Andrew, This laptop came with win 10 as far as I know and was downgraded to win 7. Seems the disk wasn't properly whiped. Thanks, Greetings, Simon -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Im Auftrag von Andrew Hodgson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Jänner 2018 13:11 An: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Betreff: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt Hi, I saw this when installing Windows 7 on a machine that had Windows 8 on it and in that case I knew the machine was MBR so could fix this. The thing is you really need to know why the GPT partition table may be there in the first place to understand the implication of removing either of the partition tables. Every time I do a new installation like this now I do diskpart clean on the boot volume. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Eigeldinger Simon [simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at] Sent: 11 January 2018 06:52 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt Hi all, I wanted to backup a win 7 64 bit laptop which has been recently been reinstalled. Now clonezilla gives me that error: The selected devices: sda This disk contains mismatched GPT and MBR partition: /dev/sda It will confuse Clonezilla and might make the saved image useless or fail to clo ne the disk. You can use gdisk or sgdisk to fix this issue. E.g. if you are sure only MBR par tition table is the one you want, you can run this command to destroy the GPT pa rtition table while keep the MBR partition table: sudo sgdisk -z /dev/sdx //NOTE// (1) Replace /dev/sdx with the above hard drive name. (2) ALL EXISTING D ATA ON THE DISK WILL BE LOST IF GIVING WRONG COMMAND. USE THIS COMMAND CAREFULLY ! Please fix this issue then restart Clonezilla again. Program terminated!! Press "Enter" to continue...... Is that dangerous when i remove the gpt partition? Has someone done that without any issues? Greetings and thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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missmatching mbr and gpt
by Eigeldinger Simon 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

Hi all, I wanted to backup a win 7 64 bit laptop which has been recently been reinstalled. Now clonezilla gives me that error: The selected devices: sda This disk contains mismatched GPT and MBR partition: /dev/sda It will confuse Clonezilla and might make the saved image useless or fail to clo ne the disk. You can use gdisk or sgdisk to fix this issue. E.g. if you are sure only MBR par tition table is the one you want, you can run this command to destroy the GPT pa rtition table while keep the MBR partition table: sudo sgdisk -z /dev/sdx //NOTE// (1) Replace /dev/sdx with the above hard drive name. (2) ALL EXISTING D ATA ON THE DISK WILL BE LOST IF GIVING WRONG COMMAND. USE THIS COMMAND CAREFULLY ! Please fix this issue then restart Clonezilla again. Program terminated!! Press "Enter" to continue...... Is that dangerous when i remove the gpt partition? Has someone done that without any issues? Greetings and thanks, Simon

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Visual studio Code accessibility. Working with Arduino.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

I really like the UI of visual Studio Code. It makes perfect sense and I really like that when using it with NVDA, the verbosity is just perfect! But I'm having a problem when trying to upload sketches to the Arduino. I'm not sure what that problem is as I'm not getting any details. There's nothing in the output window. Here are my questions. Can anyone assist please? 1. When uploading to the Arduino. Do I need to explicitly initialize the board? This wasn't necessary in previous IDE's. 2. Should the output window report on the success or the failure of uploading the sketch? 3. Is the bod rate and serial connection saved when the Visual studio code editor is restarted? I don't think it is. 4. When I show the serial port but I close the output window, how is it re-enabled again? There's no window menu. I generally just try the output window again. Any other tips appreciated.

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cloning a vm virtual drive
by David Mehler 26 Dec '17

26 Dec '17

Hello, I'm using VMware workstation and have a vm with a separate virtual drive. It is now full. What I'm wanting to do is add a new virtual hard drive, a larger one, this I can do. I'm then needing to clone the smaller drive to the larger one growing the partition size. So say a 40gb drive to a 60gb drive, the partition would be sixty gb in size. For reference this is on a Ubuntu 17.04 vm. I'd like to use Linux tools. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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cloning a vm virtual drive
by David Mehler 26 Dec '17

26 Dec '17

Hello, I'm using VMware workstation and have a vm with a separate virtual drive. It is now full. What I'm wanting to do is add a new virtual hard drive, a larger one, this I can do. I'm then needing to clone the smaller drive to the larger one growing the partition size. So say a 40gb drive to a 60gb drive, the partition would be sixty gb in size. For reference this is on a Ubuntu 17.04 vm. I'd like to use Linux tools. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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disk image lite image convert vhd or iso?
by David Mehler 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

Hello, I've got a disk image lite backup of a drive saved to a usb portable drive. What I'm wanting to do is mount that image either on a host system as an iso, or possibly as input to a virtual machine as a vhd to use live, i'm wanting to search said image for some missing files. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave.

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disk image lite image convert vhd or iso?
by David Mehler 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

Hello, I've got a disk image lite backup of a drive saved to a usb portable drive. What I'm wanting to do is mount that image either on a host system as an iso, or possibly as input to a virtual machine as a vhd to use live, i'm wanting to search said image for some missing files. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave.

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Recent Clonezilla versions: problems with new file browser for target directory or source directory
by Eigeldinger Simon 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

Hi all, I just sent a mail to the devs to contact them about the issues with the new file browser. Anyone found a workaround or has no issues? The new file browser is a little bit confusing and not that accessible as with older versions. Additionally i dropped a mail to the grml devs to inform them about espeak not talking. Which prevents speakup from running. Greetings, Simon

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Visual studio Code accessibility. Working with Arduino.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

I really like the UI of visual Studio Code. It makes perfect sense and I really like that when using it with NVDA, the verbosity is just perfect! But I'm having a problem when trying to upload sketches to the Arduino. I'm not sure what that problem is as I'm not getting any details. There's nothing in the output window. Here are my questions. Can anyone assist please? 1. When uploading to the Arduino. Do I need to explicitly initialize the board? This wasn't necessary in previous IDE's. 2. Should the output window report on the success or the failure of uploading the sketch? 3. Is the bod rate and serial connection saved when the Visual studio code editor is restarted? I don't think it is. 4. When I show the serial port but I close the output window, how is it re-enabled again? There's no window menu. I generally just try the output window again. Any other tips appreciated.

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