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    Cloning a CF-29 ubuntu/xp drive to a external..Help!

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Envain, Jan 18, 2013.

  1. Envain

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    Hi i have a toughbook CF-29 with no CD drive only one usb port. Currently it has ubuntu 10.04 and xp sp3 on the same drive as different partitions. totaling around 140GB.

    I'm currently looking to take a IMG of the drive with clonezilla, (I've used acronis but prefer clonezilla in this case)

    What I've tried:

    I tried using a USB hub with an external HDD and external Cd drive, only the CD drive was recognized through the HUB. I tried plugging the external HDD right to the single usb port and it was seen. So it seems the usb only supports a single device. Other then that i see no way to boot from the CD through the bios, only f2 for setup.


    I've also removed the toughbook drive from its enclosure and using a usb 2.0 to SATA/IDE Hard Drive Adapter plugged into my personal laptop. had both toughbook drive and a external drive. Unfortunately the toughbook drive cannot be recognized and in disc manager it wants me to initialze it which in turn will wipe the disk. Running clonezilla also doesn't see the disc.


    Running out of options but if anyone knows what i could try to help this client out I'd really appreciate it.
     
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  2. SHEEPMAN!

    SHEEPMAN! Freelance

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    There may be a bios upgrade to enable boot from USB. We need more information. CF-29fillintheblanks. :)

    What we know is you have a MK1 or MK2 seeing as to how it has one USB.

    The EASY way is to score a CDROM...they are getting cheaper. Do you have a floppy drive? PLOPLINUX may run on a floppy, then install or not to the HDD, (it will enable boot from USB).

    Or install Paragon 11 onto the hdd? I use it.

    Good luck,

    Jeff
     
    SHEEPMAN!, Jan 18, 2013
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