Enter the BIOS settings on the PC that you are trying to save the image and go to:
System configuration > SATA Operation > Select bubble for AHCIThen hit Apply and exit, the PC will reboot.
Now, enter the Boot menu by pressing F12 a lot of times while the PC is booting up and the DELL Logo shows up:
Once in the Boot menu (picture below) Select the Sandisk USB drive with the clonezilla as the boot partition and hit enter:
Clonezilla will launch, select the first option:
Then select English as language:
Enter on "Keep the default keyboard layout
Enter on "Start Clonezilla":
On this screen you will select device-image to start work with partitions:
Now, enter on "local_dev" to work with a local device (The PC you are backing up).
Then press Enter again:
Now it will show you all of the partitions, here you want to make sure that you can see your destination drive (the USB where you are saving the image to) is listed, in your case should be a 128GB Sandisk:
Press Control + C to skip this after verifying your destination drive is available.
- Here you will select your destination drive (the one where the image will be saved). Again, you should see a 128GB Sandisk:
- Now you will select the folder where you will save the image, since you are saving it in the main folder just hit TAB until you hover over "Done" and hit enter:
Now, select beginner mode:
Then press enter on "Save Disk", this means you will save the image of your desired PC:
Now you need to type a name for the image you are saving:
- Now, you need to select the drive that you will be saving the image from, in your case should be nvme0n1 most likely. Once you are located over it, press SPACE to select it and then TAB to select "OK":
Select "z9p zsdtmt_compression:
Enter on "Skip checking/repairing source file system"
Enter on "Yes,c check the saved image"
Enter on "-senc Not to encrypt image"
Enter on "Choose":
- Now, type "y" and hit enter:
- The backup process of the image should begin. Wait for it to finish, then go to the BIOS settings and revert the change you did at the first step:
System Configuration > SATA Operation > Change it back to "Raid On"
Please contact support if you run into any issues, take photos of any issues and send it to our support number:
512-537-8801