[CALUG] any clonezilla experts out there?

[mhartwx]

This may be too simple for this list, but I've been wasting a lot of 
time on this & not getting anywhere.

My Gateway laptop (250GB) hard drive acts flaky every once in a while so 
I bought a larger 500GB replacement. Since I can't connect it as a slave 
like I would with a desktop, I got an enclosure for it & tried to do a 
disk to disk clone using Clonezilla Live on a CD. But it looks like 
Clonezilla is taking the entire target disk & allocating it as one 
partition to clone the first (Gateway) partition, which it does 
successfully.  Then when it tries to clone sda2 to sdb2 it says that 
sdb2 is not found & does the same thing for the rest of the partitions 
on sda.  I then tried to make partitions on the target drive to match 
the source & got a different error this time - it said the sdb2 target 
partition (1MB) was smaller than the source.  I can't find any internet 
comment about having to make partitions on the target drive or having to 
give Clonezilla any extra help with a multi-partition source disk.

This is a Vista/Mandriva dual-boot system & I downsized the 2 nfts Vista 
partitions (OS & data) - leaving the Gateway partition strictly alone - 
& took half of each Vista partition space for the ext3 Linux partitions. 
  Here is the physical layout of my disk according to Mandriva control: 
           (fstab says there are 7 partitions)

sda1   10GB   ntfs (gateway)    media/hd
sda2   61GB   nfts  (OS)           media/hd2
sda5   7.8GB   ext3  (/)
sda6   3.8GB   swap
sda7   38GB    ext3  (/home)
sda4   55GB   ntfs  (DATA)       media/hd3
sda8   55GB    ext3  /ldata

Here is what Clonezilla lists after it couldn't clone the sda2-8 partitions:

sda    244 million blocks  		(8 major partitions, #0 minor)
sda1   10 million blocks   boot           8           1
sda2   64   "          "                           8           2
sda3    1   single block                       8          3
sda4   58 million blocks                     8           4
sda5   8     "         "                            8            5
sda6   4    "          "                            8            6
sda7   39    "           "                         8            7
sda8   58    "         "                           8           8
sdb    (488 million blocks)                 7          16
sdb1   488 million blocks                   7          17
loop0  103140 blocks                        7            0

Any ideas of what's going on with Clonezilla?  Is there something about 
my drive set-up that it can't handle? Is Clonezilla seeing a hidden sda3 
partition (not in my fstab) that keeps it from making more than 1 
partition on the target disk?  I can't use dd to brute force clone the 
disk since the drives aren't the same size, so I'd like to get 
Clonezilla working.

	ml hart