Scale breaks HDDS for re-use of Clonezilla image restore

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I had a Scale 24xxx test system with 4 HDDs, Detached all HDDs then got rid of Scale and used HDD Low level format tool then formatted with W11 on another machine. Hdds all good no issues.

I then try to use any of those HDDs to restore the original Windows image for the what was Scale MB and I get the following error. O’ and yes, the HDD is listed in the BIOS.

Clonezilla error Error! No existing disk or no unmounted disk are found! To use Clonezilla to save or clone a disk the source disk must exist or be unmounted! If your are sure the disk exists in this machine, maybe the kernel is to old?

If I use any other HDD that was never used by Scale I get no error and image restore proceeds. From that, it’s not the BIOS or BIOS settings as It’s also not the Clonezilla kernel as I also thought the quick Low level format would have fixed it.

The problems is with what Scale may or may not have done something to the HDDs.

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Found the fix 5 minutes after posting.

It seems that the disks are marked as ‘zfs_member’ disks. I only found that out when I thought I would format using Clonezilla console since I’m there, that’s when fdisk noted the ‘zfs_member’ info. Still in Clonezilla console used # sudo wipefs -a /dev/sdX ‘X’ is your what your disk identifier is.

All is good now. Restore in progress.

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IMHO the problem Is in this step.

You are on Windows right? Try diskpart, select the disk and see in there are some left oartition

Edit posted together :smile: glad you resolve