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Don, did you use the "clone" option or the "image" option?
There is a big difference. A "clone" makes an exact copy of a disk so the new disk can be use as a replacement. An "image" is a compressed copy of you system, saved as a file and can be used to restore a disk or move to a new disk.
Jim
I did dowload te FREE - 30-day Trial Macrium Reflect program last night and will be taking a good look at the documentation today, and checking it out during this 30 trial period. I wonder if there are any other backup programs available which could make a Windows Ten USB save - that would be bootable in case of a serious "no boot" Problem.
Thanks... Cliff M.
Many. One example, which I have experience with, is Image for Windows/Linux/DOS (license includes all three) from Terabyte Unlimited - every bit as reliable as Macrium Reflect. Many other examples I won't mention but I'm sure there are forum members who have experience with the others and maybe they'll chime in.
Note that the 30 day trial of Macrium Reflect is meant to give you same functionality as paid version for 30 days whereas the FREE version has plenty of but not ALL of the functionality that the paid/30-day trial version does. If you don't pay up at the end of 30-day trial, I expect (but don't know firsthand) the trial version reverts to free version functionality. In any event, the free version can do ALOT for a free version.
Hello dgreen,
I never tryed a hard drive clooning,
Maybe one hard drive is using 512K sectors, and other one 4096K,
Or a thing with controller inside the external bay...
I won't speack much, it's just things i read, days ago when i wanted myself to use:
Clonezilla, for future usage.
It's not possible for most tools or maybe all of them to clone 512k sectors to 4096k sectors.
I mean, if you read doc, from clonezilla, or other partition managers, they say the same thing.
There is maybe a tool doing proper cloning with different sector size,
HD clone 5 from Miray.
If reading informations from the main page:
They claim:
For over 30 years, 512 Bytes have been the one-and-only standard sector size for any PC mass storage media. Now modern drives in "Advanced Format" can have different sector sizes (512, 512e, 1Kn, and 4Kn). HDClone allows you to create clones and file images between disks with different sector formats and converts NTFS and FAT file systems automatically.