Just curious if anyone has used this freeware to clone a drive, either "Disk Clone or Partition Clone".
It of course will also perform backups too. However, over the years I've always maintained a complete cloned drive as a result of having a need to retain "legacy" software and hardware going. Additionally of course is the ability to just mirror everything including preference settings throughout.
However, most recently with Win10 64 Bit the drive has 4 partitions. With that said the freeware clearly states and also during the process of cloning outlines it will not finalize a 4th partition. Again, this is not allowed under both levels of "disk or individual partition" cloning process. It does an excellent job of cloning a full 3 partitions either way, "disk or partitions".
I sent an email to AOMEI support awhile back to see if their Pro software for a $49 upgrade will clone as many partitions that you want. No response as of yet.
Just thought I'd ask if any others are using this software maybe with an upgraded version and cloning drives. And yes, I do also have a Microsoft "Disk Image" copied to a different hard-drive. But I've always kept a cloned unit and have used them a couple times to recover in the past prior to Microsoft's "Disk Image" being available.
Right click on Start and then click Disk Management. You should see all your disks and their partitions. Can you post a screen shot of the Disk Management window? That would help me to see what you've got.
Just for info: When I open Disk Management, and look at my C:\ drive, I see the following three partitions.
Preston, I cannot seem to cut and paste the disk management screen shot here. I have no way to URL link it either. It will allow me to paste it but it erases upon saving it.
I've sent it to you in email directly. Thanks for looking.
Hi Paul, I need to see the comments inside the parenthesis in the 'Status' column, especially for the first partition listed.
It looks like the three following partitions are Recovery partitions (two of these) and your Primary boot partition (C:\)
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Paul, you have to upload the screen shot to NPN just as you would any other image. I did see your pasted image, but after going back to the page, it was gone.
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Preston, as outlined in my email to you late yesterday all went well with the disk clone after converting the destination drive from MBR to GPT.
I wanted to leave a comment here so others are aware of the requirement with the clone process using AOMEI freeware. Although both my source drive and destination drives were identical in size, 1T, it still required my destination drive to be converted to GPT. The source drive was already a GPT and that may have been the lynch pin as normally anything under 2T apparently can be MBR profiled. Once the change to GPT was done the cloning was flawless.
Thanks again for you technical assistance as always.
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9 repliesIt of course will also perform backups too. However, over the years I've always maintained a complete cloned drive as a result of having a need to retain "legacy" software and hardware going. Additionally of course is the ability to just mirror everything including preference settings throughout.
However, most recently with Win10 64 Bit the drive has 4 partitions. With that said the freeware clearly states and also during the process of cloning outlines it will not finalize a 4th partition. Again, this is not allowed under both levels of "disk or individual partition" cloning process. It does an excellent job of cloning a full 3 partitions either way, "disk or partitions".
I sent an email to AOMEI support awhile back to see if their Pro software for a $49 upgrade will clone as many partitions that you want. No response as of yet.
Just thought I'd ask if any others are using this software maybe with an upgraded version and cloning drives. And yes, I do also have a Microsoft "Disk Image" copied to a different hard-drive. But I've always kept a cloned unit and have used them a couple times to recover in the past prior to Microsoft's "Disk Image" being available.
Right click on Start and then click Disk Management. You should see all your disks and their partitions. Can you post a screen shot of the Disk Management window? That would help me to see what you've got.
Just for info: When I open Disk Management, and look at my C:\ drive, I see the following three partitions.
- System Reserved NTFS 100MB
- (C:) Boot, Page File, etc. NTFS 223 GB
- 450 MB Recovery Partition.
--PI've sent it to you in email directly. Thanks for looking.
It looks like the three following partitions are Recovery partitions (two of these) and your Primary boot partition (C:\)
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btw: I wonder if there is away to set the default font size on these NPN posts. As my eyes have aged I need larger print........LOL
Regarding the font size: I am not sure you can change the default.
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I wanted to leave a comment here so others are aware of the requirement with the clone process using AOMEI freeware. Although both my source drive and destination drives were identical in size, 1T, it still required my destination drive to be converted to GPT. The source drive was already a GPT and that may have been the lynch pin as normally anything under 2T apparently can be MBR profiled. Once the change to GPT was done the cloning was flawless.
Thanks again for you technical assistance as always.
I am always happy to help!
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