On 8 June 2012 16:53, kpb <k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk> wrote: > Hello All > > One for any Thinkpad owners using Ubuntu > > Just bought a second hand Thinkpad X200s, and it runs Ubuntu 12.04 from a > USB stick really nicely, with the basics working fine (I mainly need > suspend to ram). > > I'd like to be able to restore the hard drive including the recovery > partition to its original state in case I want to pass the laptop on (came > with Vista Business). > > I've used clonezilla to image the whole drive including the mbr, using > these shortform instructions > > > http://www.forwestmedia.com/resources/how-to-guides/using-clonezilla-to-create-and-restore-disk-images/ > > I have reason to believe the result will be restorable, see > > http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=75378 > > especially the last post on that page. > > Anyone done this? Had any issues restoring? > > I've used Clonezilla and it works fine on most machines. Realistically you could just leave the restore partition on the disk as it boots Windows to do the restore process.
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