06-18-2009, 02:00 PM

I have an MBP that has a Mac and a Windows partitions. When I image, I manually create a FAT partition on the new machine, then connect it to the Image MBP, and write the Mac OS image. That image has the Winclone and the Winclone-made XP image on it already, so once the Mac image finishes writing, I put the Image MBP away, boot into Mac OS, and write the XP image from there. First time I did it, everything worked like a charm. However, when I tried to image another MB, things went sour. Everything went fine until the Winclone part. It starts imaging, goes to 100% and says "done" but then an error message pops up. I tried saving the log but, with my luck, it didn't work so I'll have to repeat the entire process tomorrow and try and get the log again so I can post it here. Anyways, after the error message, if I restart it does not see the windows partition at all, only Mac OS. Any ideas?

06-19-2009, 10:48 AM

Got the log! It starts at the end of the percentage countdown:

PINF 98 100 restore
PINF 100 100 restore
PSTP 100 100 stop restore
Remounting target volume...done
XSTA finish
return value of /usr/sbin/asr restore --noverify --puppetstrings -noprompt -erase --source "/Users/administrator/Desktop/winxpimage.winclone/Windows.dmg" --target "/dev/disk1s2" 1>&2 is 0

Volume NO NAME on /dev/disk1s2 mounted
destination_path is /Volumes/NO NAME 1
=======copying old boot.ini file=========

cp "/Volumes/NO NAME 1/boot.ini" "/Volumes/NO NAME 1/boot.ini.old"
return value of cp "/Volumes/NO NAME 1/boot.ini" "/Volumes/NO NAME 1/boot.ini.old" is 0

=======removing old boot.ini file=========

rm -f "/Volumes/NO NAME 1/boot.ini"
return value of rm -f "/Volumes/NO NAME 1/boot.ini" is 0

=======copying new boot.ini file=========

cp /tmp/boot.ini "/Volumes/NO NAME 1/boot.ini"
return value of cp /tmp/boot.ini "/Volumes/NO NAME 1/boot.ini" is 0

Unmounting /dev/disk1s2
return value of unmount is 0

=====Syncing GPT with MBR Partition Table, setting partition to bootable, and restoring boot sector==============

"/Volumes/Winclone/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources/gptrefresh" -f -w -m "/Users/administrator/Desktop/winxpimage.winclone/boot.mbr" -a 2 -u -i 0x0C "/dev/disk1"
return value of "/Volumes/Winclone/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources/gptrefresh" -f -w -m "/Users/administrator/Desktop/winxpimage.winclone/boot.mbr" -a 2 -u -i 0x0C "/dev/disk1" is 65280

Invalid GPT signature. Make sure this disk uses the GPT partitioning scheme. Signature: 00000000
"/Volumes/Winclone/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources/gptrefresh" -f -w -m "/Users/administrator/Desktop/winxpimage.winclone/boot.mbr" -a 2 -u -i 0x0C "/dev/disk1" did not complete successfully
cleaning up: Mounting Disk
Volume NO NAME on /dev/disk1s2 mounted
Fri Jun 19 10:45:26 EDT 2009

btw, the drive is GTP

07-16-2011, 02:25 PM

So what was the solution?

07-16-2011, 02:53 PM

The solution is not to use WinClone to image a FAT-32 partition as it does not work reliably. And add to that the fact that WinClone is no longer being developed. My advice is to avoid using it for imaging FAT-32. It seems to work OK with NTFS though.

Also take note the original post is over two years old.

07-17-2011, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by chscag

Also take note the original post is over two years old.

Ah, but that was what was so intriguing. The exact same message I got, and over two years old! Thank you for posting. And I am using NTSF... What I found later, when researching GPT, was that the message somehow pertains to using the "wrong" disk/partition to restore to. It can ONLY be the BOOTCAMP partition.*) While I can't say I understood all I read, that much I got out of it. I tried it, and it's true for my setup. Unfortunately, I had to clobber what was there in the process. I hope this can help somebody else.
*) Freshly created by Boot Camp Assistant - every time.