For years I’ve used external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: make two partitions, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition to store the images. Then I use tuxboot to install Clonezilla on the fat32 partition. Then I restart the pc and boot to the Clonezilla partition and make a drive image of whatever other drive and store it on the ntsf partition, or restore an image from the ntsf partition to whatever drive. I regularly do this on various Windows pcs XP, Vista, Win7, Win8, Win10, all either 32 or 64bit. I just bought a WD My Passport 2 TB and everything goes fine but it will not boot to Clonezilla connected to any usb on any pc as my other external drives do. The only response is that no os was found. I’ve reformatted and reinstalled various Clonezilla versions. I ran WD diagnostics. I’ve used different cables. How do I fix this?
There’s some kind of 2tb limitation that I don’t understand; that may be the problem. So how do I make this 2tb drive useful in the manner I want. How should I format this 2tb drive so it will boot Clonezilla via usb?
stance310 led me to this solution; Using Windows Disk Management changed the disk from GPT to MBR, next using Gparted created 300MB Fat32 partition and the balance NTSF then back in Windows used Tuxboot to install Clonezilla onto 300MB part. The solution was changing from GPT to MBR. Thanks to stance310
