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I understand your thinking but the option of Image Backups is a better backup method because you can store several backups to an external drive and restore them when you need.
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cloning using the Rescue Disk created by the program avoids the conflicts because windows will not know about the cloned partitions, some cloning software will ask if you want to "hide/change" the partitions on the source disk to avoild all the problem that could result if the OS boots with access to both drives the original and clone. When you do the cloning inside Windows the OS will see all the partitions and to avoid conflicts the software must change things like signatures, drive letters etc. I will probably try another clone when I get time. I don’t reject alternative methods which have probably improved since then but I would still like to solve this problem. I suppose it does seem a bit archaic but it is something I turned to some years ago after having little success with other methods of backup. The reason for cloning is that I do like to have a copy of the OS so I can swap them quickly, re-clone the faulty drive and pick up where I left off, always having a usable drive to fall back on.
Do you think that would be a better method?
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I didn’t know there was a Macrium Reflect boot disk or how to get it. I cloned the drive from Windows running normally as I have always done.
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Maybe if you upload the image to a image sharing site like can see the full size image. Most likely the forum software adjusted the image size when you attached the image, I can't read the partition information at all. The alternative drive to clone to is the same size as the one in use, both are SSD’s. Hi, I’m not sure how you are reading the image but the OS is the only relevant drive here i.e. I am including the image in order to ask if it looks normal to you, as there seems to be more partitions than I remember from previous clones. There is something else I noticed (please see image), after performing a full clean and then format of the drive to be cloned to, the 1 st partition was still visible in disk management. Though I don’t know what the best BIOS settings for my system are, they are the same for the original which worked, as they were for the clone. So, what I am saying is that no changes have been made to the system from cloning and then testing the clone. The system would then boot and when everything seemed fine, I cloned the OS, but that would not boot. The file rescue was successful but for some reason the system wouldn’t boot after that so I eventually re-flashed the BIOS. I had trouble booting normally after using ‘Puppy Linux’ to rescue files from previous drives that I could not access after replacing the main board and OS (with the same model of MB & CPU). I think I should clarify the order of events. I don’t know what is the norm but when I hear someone in a video talking about choosing the correct disk in the BIOS they refer to the disk with the OS on it, were I have to choose Windows Boot Manager for ‘it’ to choose the correct drive. To me, that means it is not a perfect clone or other info, not cloned, is not being recognised.
It seems apparent that it is not recognising the clone as being the same. The problem is when I tried to boot from the original drive it would not boot from it. Not sure which caused it to work but it then booted. Having said that I have managed to get it to boot after using the windows (10 pro) installation pen drive and using the bootrec /FixMbr - /Fixboot – Rebuild Bcd command prompts. Now after having trouble booting normally (for other reasons) and so having to re-flash the BIOS I find the cloned drive won’t boot. I simply cloned the OS from one SSD drive to another the same size and it would boot no problem.
I like to have a clone of the OS in case a disaster occurs and before my main board died, I had no trouble using 'Macrium Reflect'. Hi, after replacing my main board and processor I am having difficulty in successfully cloning a drive that boots.