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Clonezilla on Dell Inspiron G3 3500
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I just bought a Dell G3 15 3500 laptop.

I wanted to make a complete backup of the system before using it. Therefore, I planned to use Clonezilla but encountered difficulties.

Here a brief summary of what I had to do to have Clonezilla work:

1. If you want to save some disk space, you can disable Bitlocker. That will require you to boot and go thru the first system setup. I recommend to avoid connecting to a Microsoft account. Choose the user name you create wisely: it will last despite the sysprep that we will execute later. Then, goto the Encryption control panel and disable. My laptop was not really encrypted: the system was expecting a Microsoft account before really encrypting the drive. Therefore, Bitlocker disabling took only an instant. Then, execute sysprep to restore the system to a clean state.

2. Goto the BIOS settings (F2 key after powering up) Go to storage, and switch the SATA setting from RAID to SATA Save the new setting and reboot.

3. Start Clonezilla and backup the disk I made a USB key for that.

4. Go back to the BIOS settings after reboot Storage: switch back the setting from SATA to RAID. If you don't do that, Windows will fail to boot.

5. Reboot at last This is the last reboot. You can configure you system for use.

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