![]() ![]() That said, the only advantage that I can see to having the same partition cloned would be to save however long it took to restore a partition image backup. And by rights you should have a license for each copy of Windows installed, so 2 identical partitions, 2 licenses. ![]() One problem with multiple identical partitions is software DRM - besides Windows maybe needing reactivation, sometimes software can & will detect the difference & lock you out. To get Windows boot menu squared away most times you can use EasyBCD, though sometimes you'll have to also use the cli BCDEdit, as EasyBCD in my experience can default to std. When it comes to partitions with Windows installed, you can easily have 2 or more of what start as identical partitions - as soon as Windows is fired up of course that partition is no longer identical. I want a program that will create an exact copy of my windows drive, so that I, theoretically, can remove my original windows drive from the machine, and still be able to boot from this clone in a perfectly seamless and functional manner.ĭoes anyone know of a software which can do this? Thanks!!ĭon't know if the OP still has any interest in this or not - just stopped by to post a quick ? & thought this *might* help if still interested.īasically a restored drive/partition image is good wherever you want to put it - difference between a restored image & a clone is the data makes a detour to be written to disk as an archive. Boot fails every time, and certain programs like acronis don't even make a cloned drive, they make some proprietary backup file which needs to be decompressed, and therefore is fundamentally useless, since i can't access any of the data without having that original program to decompress it. I have tried Acronis true image, I have tried driveimage xml, i have tried paragon and a couple others, but none of them have produced a cloned drive which is BOOTABLE. However I do not know of a program that can clone my drive and be bootable. I want to reinstall my whole system then clone it, so the next time I do a clean reinstall I can just go from this clone instead of having to actually reinstall and reconfigure everything. I want to create a bootable clone of my windows drive. ![]()
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