Changes

1. * Obtain Linux workstation PC. Any recent Linux distribution is ok 2. * Open the terminal and print current partitions

3. * Attach the disk you are going to clone to the workstation PC and print with some suitable adapter (for example M.2 SATA SSD to USB 3.0 adapter)* Print detected partitions again:

8 80 30932992 sdf8 81 2929664 sdf18 82 97280 sdf28 83 97280 sdf38 84 488448 488448 sdf4

* In the example above attached disk named /dev/sdf and it has 4 partitions: /dev/sdf1, /dev/sdf2, /dev/sdf3, /dev/sdf4* We will use the name /dev/sdf in this guide, it can be different in your case4. <br>* Open the terminal and save disk layout using fdisk tooland blkid tools:

5. Open the terminal and save disk layout using blkid tool:<pre>$ sudo blkid /dev/sdf* -s UUID -s TYPE > blkid.layout # review blkid.layout file

6. * Ensure disk partitions are unmounted (on some systems they can be mounted automatically)<pre>$ sudo umount /dev/sdf*</pre> * Save filesystem from each disk partition using partclone tool and compress using lz4 tool.partclone Partclone tool supports: NTFS,EXT2ext2/3/4,FAT ntfs, fat and many other filesystem types, you can clone disks with Linux or Windows installations

# for distributions based on Ubuntu/Debian$ sudo apt update$ sudo apt install liblz4-tool partclone

In the example aboveaccording to blkid.layout: - /dev/sdf1 and /dev/sdf3 have "ext4" filesystem - /dev/sdf2 has "vfat" filesystem - /dev/sdf3 has no filesystem

$ sudo partclone.ext4 -c -s /dev/sdf1 | lz4 > part1.ext4.partclone.lzlz4$ sudo partclone.vfat -c -s /dev/sdf2 | lz4 > part2.vfat.partclone.lzlz4$ sudo partclone.ext4 -c -s /dev/sdf4 | lz4 > part4.ext4.partclone.lzlz4

* Calculate md5 for files you've prepared7<pre>$ md5sum *. layout part*.partclone.lz4 > md5</pre>* Send us the fdisk.layout, blkid.layout and all , part*.partclone.lz lz4 filesand the md5 file