Gparted was able to recognize the restored partition as ext4. I created a live disk of Ubuntu, and booted into it using 'Try Ubuntu without installing' entry. In my case, I had restored the xubuntu/budgie partition image. The easiest method was to create a bootable live USB/disk of the same OS I had. If you want to save further space, or have to clone it to a smaller disk/partition, you will have to shrink the linux partition as much as possible before imaging for backup as Macrium images the whole partition bitwise (not the case for Windows). There is no need to have the full disk backed up. Macrium backup and restore had worked perfectly fine in this case.īackup and restore of single partitions are possible. I guess, it's because Windows cannot recognize ext4 format. The restored partition showing up as RAW volume and Recovery partition under Windows was to be omitted. Hence, I am posting below, the steps for future users. How can I properly get the ubuntu to boot? Any help is greatly appreciated. I have read many forum threads but apparently they have talked about restoring a full HDD restore and some had problem booting linux from that too. I ran Testdisk and it was able to list files in the partition.

Volume 9 RAW Partition 16 GB Healthy Hidden The restore of the partition done by Macrium is showing as RAW volume and Recovery partition in diskpart:

I need to create a boot entry for this Ubuntu as I cannot use the previous EFI backup since the partition layout is different from time of backup. I have now restored the Ubuntu image to new partition, but I need to set up a boot entry for this.

I have created new partitions and installed Windows. I had backed up the Ubuntu and EFI partitions (using Macrium Reflect) before giving to service center, where they fully wiped the disk. My previous setup had Windows and Ubuntu in two primary partitions on the same HDD.

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