Persistent Partition not working when using a NTFS base image.

[dellamvonk]

Persistent Partition not working when using a NTFS base image.

[dellamvonk]

Correct image

[pbatard]

Please try the ALPHA you will find in the MinGW artifacts from https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/actions/runs/8628239450 and see how it goes. The issue you report should have been fixed in 0f23c47.

[dellamvonk]

Hello Pete, Thanks for the quick response and solution 😊. Sorry I missed the entry in the “ [INTERNAL] List of rufus-4.5 enhancements and fixes” list. This version is working as it should. Here are the results of the quick test I ran. The text in the image is Dutch since this version was not digitally signed I had to ran it on a different computer which only talks Dutch. ``` Rufus x64 v4.5.2128 (Alpha) Windows version: Windows 11 Pro x64 (Build 22631.3155) Syslinux versions: 4.07/2013-07-25, 6.04/pre1 Grub versions: 0.4.6a, 2.06 System locale ID: 0x0413 (nl-NL) Will use default UI locale 0x0413 SetLGP: Successfully set NoDriveTypeAutorun policy to 0x0000009E Localization set to 'nl-NL' Found 517 officially revoked UEFI bootloaders from embedded list Found 2351 additional revoked UEFI bootloaders from this system's SKUSiPolicy.p7b Found USB 2.0 device 'Multiple Card Reader USB Device' (058F:6366) Using 'autorun.inf' label for drive D: 'Support-Live-Image' 1 device found Disk type: Removable, Disk size: 32 GB, Sector size: 512 bytes Cylinders: 3879, Tracks per cylinder: 255, Sectors per track: 63 Partition type: MBR, NB Partitions: 2 Disk ID: 0x0071143E Drive has a Syslinux Master Boot Record Partition 1: Type: NTFS (0x07) Detected File System: NTFS Size: 29.7 GB (31908151296 bytes) Start Sector: 2048, Boot: Yes Partition 2 (UEFI:NTFS): Type: EFI System Partition (0xef) Detected File System: FAT12 Size: 1 MB (1048576 bytes) Start Sector: 62322656, Boot: No Scanning image... ISO analysis: Image is an ISO9660 image Will use '/isolinux/isolinux.cfg' for Syslinux Detected Syslinux version: 6.04 (from '/isolinux/isolinux.bin') Disk image analysis: Image has an unknown Master Boot Record Image is a bootable disk image ISO label: 'Support-Live-Image' Size: 7.4 GB (Projected) Has a >4GB file Uses: Syslinux/Isolinux v6.04 Uses: EFI Using image: sli-0.5-rocky-8.9-xehealthcheck.iso (7.4 GB) Checking for Rufus updates... Checking release channel... No new release version found. Will reuse 'ldlinux.sys' and 'ldlinux.bss' from 'C:\Users\amvc11\AppData\Local\Rufus\syslinux-6.04\' for Syslinux installation Format operation started Requesting disk access... Will use 'F:' as volume mountpoint Opened \\.\PhysicalDrive1<file://./PhysicalDrive1> for shared write access Analyzing existing boot records... Drive has a Syslinux Master Boot Record Clearing MBR/PBR/GPT structures... Erasing 128 sectors Initializing disk... Partitioning (MBR)... ● Creating Main Data Partition (offset: 1048576, size: 17.7 GB) ● Creating Linux Persistence Partition (offset: 19024266240, size: 12 GB) ● Creating UEFI:NTFS Partition (offset: 31909183488, size: 1 MB) Writing UEFI:NTFS data... Waiting for logical drive to reappear... Using Debian-like method to enable persistence Notice: Using physical device to access partition data Formatting (ext3)... 393216 possible inodes out of 3145731 blocks (block size = 4096) 157286 blocks (5.0%) reserved for the super user Creating 96 inode sets: [1 marker = 1.2 set(s)] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Creating 8192 journal blocks: [1 marker = 102.4 block(s)] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Created 'persistence.conf' file Formatting to NTFS (using IFS) Using cluster size: 4096 bytes Quick format was selected Creating file system... Format completed. Opened \\.\PhysicalDrive1<file://./PhysicalDrive1> for shared write access Writing Master Boot Record... Set bootable USB partition as 0x80 Using Syslinux MBR Found volume \\?\Volume{e0ddc77c-fb1d-11ee-8a79-7085c2ce3a6f}\<file://%3f/Volume%7be0ddc77c-fb1d-11ee-8a79-7085c2ce3a6f%7d/> Disabling file indexing... Installing Syslinux 6.04... Opened \\?\Volume{e0ddc77c-fb1d-11ee-8a79-7085c2ce3a6f}<file://%3f/Volume%7be0ddc77c-fb1d-11ee-8a79-7085c2ce3a6f%7d> for shared write access Using existing 'C:\Users\amvc11\AppData\Local\Rufus\syslinux-6.04\ldlinux.sys' ✓ Using existing 'C:\Users\amvc11\AppData\Local\Rufus\syslinux-6.04\ldlinux.bss' ✓ Successfully wrote 'ldlinux.sys' Successfully wrote Syslinux boot record Successfully remounted \\?\Volume{e0ddc77c-fb1d-11ee-8a79-7085c2ce3a6f}\<file://%3f/Volume%7be0ddc77c-fb1d-11ee-8a79-7085c2ce3a6f%7d/> as F: Extracting files... Image is an ISO9660 image This image will be extracted using Joliet extensions (if present) Extracting: F:\[BOOT]\0-Boot-NoEmul.img (2 KB) Extracting: F:\[BOOT]\1-Boot-NoEmul.img (6.0 MB) Extracting: F:\[BOOT]\2-Boot-NoEmul.img (12.9 MB) Extracting: F:\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI (921.9 KB) Extracting: F:\EFI\BOOT\fonts\unicode.pf2 (2.4 MB) Extracting: F:\EFI\BOOT\grub.cfg (1.9 KB) Extracting: F:\EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi (2.1 MB) Extracting: F:\LiveOS\squashfs.img (7.3 GB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\boot.cat (2 KB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\efiboot.img (6.0 MB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\initrd0.img (75.1 MB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\isolinux-voltagepark.cfg (3.1 KB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\isolinux.bin (38 KB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\isolinux.cfg (1.9 KB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\ldlinux.c32 (113.4 KB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\libcom32.c32 (176.4 KB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\libutil.c32 (22.3 KB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\macboot.img (12.9 MB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\vesamenu.c32 (26.2 KB) Extracting: F:\isolinux\vmlinuz0 (10.4 MB) Created: F:\syslinux.cfg → /isolinux/isolinux.cfg Finalizing, please wait... Created: F:autorun.inf Created: F:autorun.ico NTFS Fixup (Checkdisk)... Volume label is Support-Live-Image. Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ... 256 file records processed. File verification completed. Phase duration (File record verification): 9.05 milliseconds. 0 large file records processed. Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.34 milliseconds. 0 bad file records processed. Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.34 milliseconds. Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ... 290 index entries processed. Index verification completed. Phase duration (Index verification): 12.87 milliseconds. Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 0.06 milliseconds. Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 0.00 milliseconds. 0 reparse records processed. 0 reparse records processed. Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 0.62 milliseconds. Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ... Security descriptor verification completed. Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 10.86 milliseconds. 17 data files processed. Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 0.46 milliseconds. Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required. 18577343 KB total disk space. 7831664 KB in 30 files. 80 KB in 19 indexes. 28055 KB in use by the system. 26816 KB occupied by the log file. 10717544 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 4644335 total allocation units on disk. 2679386 allocation units available on disk. Total duration: 35.60 milliseconds (35 ms). NTFS Fixup completed. Found USB 2.0 device 'Multiple Card Reader USB Device' (058F:6366) Using 'autorun.inf' label for drive F: 'Support-Live-Image' 1 device found Disk type: Removable, Disk size: 32 GB, Sector size: 512 bytes Cylinders: 3879, Tracks per cylinder: 255, Sectors per track: 63 Partition type: MBR, NB Partitions: 3 Disk ID: 0xF1EBDD30 Drive has a Syslinux Master Boot Record Partition 1: Type: NTFS (0x07) Detected File System: NTFS Size: 17.7 GB (19023200256 bytes) Start Sector: 2048, Boot: Yes Partition 2: Type: GNU/Linux (0x83) Detected File System: ext3 Size: 12 GB (12884917248 bytes) Start Sector: 37156770, Boot: No Partition 3 (UEFI:NTFS): Type: EFI System Partition (0xef) Detected File System: FAT12 Size: 1 MB (1064448 bytes) Start Sector: 62322624, Boot: No ``` Schijf 1 is the USB stick. ***@***.*** Thanks, Alex Vonk

[pbatard]

Thanks for reporting back. Since the upcoming version is working, I will close this issue.