Winclone Failes to restore WIM to 2TB external drive

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1

Why cant Winclone mount the new disk?

Here is the output of the log:

2020-12-23T06:32:42-06:00:Extracting file data: 258 GiB of 259 GiB (99%) done
2020-12-23T06:32:42-06:00:Last message repeated 67 times
2020-12-23T06:32:42-06:00:Extracting file data: 259 GiB of 259 GiB (99%) done
2020-12-23T06:32:43-06:00:Last message repeated 23 times
2020-12-23T06:32:43-06:00:Extracting file data: 259 GiB of 259 GiB (100%) done
2020-12-23T06:32:43-06:00:Last message repeated 135 times
2020-12-23T06:32:43-06:00:Extracting file data, 90.000000% complete
2020-12-23T06:32:43-06:00:Done applying WIM image.
2020-12-23T06:32:46-06:00:Error mounting EFI on disk /dev/disk1
2020-12-23T06:48:39-06:00:Last message repeated 1 times
2020-12-23T06:48:39-06:00:Helper tool error: User Cancelled

2

If you didn’t use the Apple tools to partition the drive, it is possible EFI is not slice 1. Try running “diskutil list” in terminal and verify that disk1s1 is the efi partition.

tim

3

Tperfitt,

I used diskutil to partition the external 2TB drive and there is no EFI partition. What is the best way to create an EFI partition? Here is my partition map:

/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.9 TB disk1
1: Microsoft Basic Data ⁨BC E⁩ 1.9 TB disk1s1

4

Tperfitt,

OK, I now have the EFI in slice 1 and restore still stops at 90%. Here is my disk map:

/dev/disk0 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.9 TB disk0
1: EFI ⁨⁩ 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data ⁨Bootcamp⁩ 1.9 TB disk0s2

Suggestions?

5

Please post the log. 90% is when the image restore is complete and the drive is set as bootable. You can also try Tools->Make EFI/Legacy bootable and see if that resolves the issue.

tim