Help with Winclone

[Don Lulejian]

I wanted to expand my Boot Camp Partition and followed Winclones instructions. I come up with errors and I haven't been able to reinstall Windows through Winclone. I have 3 Winclone images and none work. Here is a copy of the log:

Wed Jan 20 11:45:27 EST 2010: Partition is : /dev/disk0s3
Wed Jan 20 11:45:34 EST 2010
Wed Jan 20 11:45:34 EST 2010: Restoring:
Wed Jan 20 11:45:34 EST 2010: '/Applications/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources/winclone.perl' -restore -copy_bcd '/Applications/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources/BCD' -disk_device /dev/disk0 -ntfs_partition /dev/disk0s3 -v -update_bootini -q -image_dir='/Users/donlulejian/Desktop/WinXp3.winclone' -gptrefresh_path='/Applications/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources' -ntfstools_dir=/Library/NTFSProgs >> ~/Library/Logs/Winclone.log 2>&1 &
restoring.....
getting fdisk info.....
validating partition type.....
checking image size.....
image size file exists, opening.....
reading image file.../Users/donlulejian/Desktop/WinXp3.winclone/size..
read image file.../Users/donlulejian/Desktop/WinXp3.winclone/size..
done calculating..
done checking size..
checking format of image..
We have NTFS..
Unmounting /dev/disk0s3
/usr/sbin/diskutil unmount "/dev/disk0s3"return value of unmount is 0

==============mounting disk image==============
/usr/bin/hdiutil attach -nomount "/Users/donlulejian/Desktop/WinXp3.winclone/Windows.dmg"

disk device is /dev/disk2
=====restoring image from disk image=============

"/Library/NTFSProgs/ntfsclone" --rescue -f -f -f -O "/dev/disk0s3" /dev/disk2 1>&2
ntfsclone v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 23187599360 bytes (23188 MB)
Current device size: 23187603456 bytes (23188 MB)
Scanning volume ...

...............

99.94 percent completed
100.00 percent completed
Accounting clusters ...
Cluster accounting failed at 3017 (0xbc9): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 3018 (0xbca): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 18156 (0x46ec): extra cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 45601 (0xb221): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 45602 (0xb222): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 45603 (0xb223): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 45604 (0xb224): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 45605 (0xb225): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 45606 (0xb226): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 45607 (0xb227): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Totally 219 cluster accounting mismatches.
ERROR: Filesystem check failed! Windows wasn't shutdown properly or inconsistent
filesystem. Please run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE.
return value of "/Library/NTFSProgs/ntfsclone" --rescue -f -f -f -O "/dev/disk0s3" /dev/disk2 1>&2 is 256

"/Library/NTFSProgs/ntfsclone" --rescue -f -f -f -O "/dev/disk0s3" /dev/disk2 1>&2 did not complete successfully
cleaning up: Mounting Disk
Volume BOOTCAMP on /dev/disk0s3 mounted
Wed Jan 20 11:45:45 EST 2010

[nq5t@tx.rr.com]

I've had similar issues with Winclone. There was a long thread about this on the Winclone forum some time back, with many suggestions from the developer and NO resolution. I finally just gave up trying to expand the bootcamp partition using Winclone. Not worth the headache.

I do check back from time to time to see if there has been an update, but the current version is still 2.2. It's a great backup/restore tool, but the resize business is just going to give you high blood pressure.

[Don Lulejian]

Thanks for the reply. I researched this issue for quite awhile and it seems that Winclone restore was affected by Snow Leopard. There is more than a few of us that are out of luck. Maybe the next version 10.6.3 will allow the restoration process again. I guess a Windows backup would have been prudent.