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",,,Again Layback, I am going to give MACRIUM a try. Did you use the standard operation or the sector by sector option? MACRIUM refers to this as FORENSIC sector copy as opposed to INTELLIGENT sector copy.."
I use Macrium Reflect a lot for imaging, six usb ext HDs for three computers. Both the sector by sector choice and the intelligent copy choice only pertain to imaging, not to cloning. Concerning Intelligent Copy choice -- imaging is like zipping, empty byte-space is not saved, folders and files are compressed, squeezed like water squeezed out of fruit [becoming dried fruit], kinda like the commercials where a vacuum cleaner sucks the air out of the packed plastic bag. During a restore, the "air is put back in," "the water is put back in."
Sector-by-Sector choice -- will create an image of everything, stuff and space, found in targeted partition.
Cloning is a sector-sector, cluster by cluster copy of an entire source hard-drive onto another equal-size or larger size target hard-drive; duplication. Remember Ahhhnold in Total Recall? The original husband and his clone, the exact carbon copy?
Last edited by RolandJS; 22 May 2016 at 07:59.