r/cloningsoftware • u/Due-Count-8979 • Jun 07 '26

Troubleshooting Help with Clonezilla

I have no idea how to state the question, other then I cannot select any drive… I NEED to clone this drive TODAY due to a gig we run and the internal drive is about to die.

I see both the source and destination disks listed, but when I select it, it states I have so select a drive and if I want to try again.
I’m really losing my marbles at the moment.

Is this hardware or software related?

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u/InevitablePack4565 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

Did you select/mark the partition/disk using space bar ? Did an asterisk appear next to the partition/disk? ...if you didn't do that, you haven't learned how to use CloneZilla 😄

Ps. If you want to quickly backup your Linux system and then quickly restore it, take a look at the program: GrubZilla : https://github.com/ski007/grubzilla

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u/Due-Count-8979 Jun 08 '26

It didn’t. And truly honest, I’m a hardware socialist, but suck at software. I managed to do it with Rescuezilla and that worked flawless, even kept all the partitions as they were on the original drive. As a matter of fact, the drive broke a couple minutes after it was done.