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I'm pretty sure intelligent sector copy also skips copying the hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys files too.
These aren't needed in the copy and will be automatically created when you boot up the clone anyway.
This keeps the size of the copies down considerably.
WizTree can show what files and space are used in the System Volume Information folder.
They have a Portable Zip available, no install needed.
Antibody Software - WizTree finds the files and folders using the most disk space on your hard drive
Layback,
I still have had no success. Did you run MACRIUM from the WIN PE environment or were you booted normally? Also, did you leave your source drive connected when you booted into your clone? I think if you disconnect the source drive your RESTORE PTS might disappear. If they do then your RESTORE PTS probably did not transfer as you thought.
If you could, let me know.
THANX
From post #34.
Their is no need for a WIN PE when using a Clone.
Layback,
I still have had no success. Did you run MACRIUM from the WIN PE environment or were you booted normally? Also, did you leave your source drive connected when you booted into your clone? I think if you disconnect the source drive your RESTORE PTS might disappear. If they do then your RESTORE PTS probably did not transfer as you thought.
If you could, let me know.
If the restore point were on the original drive then they are on the Clone. A Clone is a Clone.
Disconnecting the source drive after the Clone is complete does nothing to the Clone. How could it.
I can boot and use the original Windows 7 normally and boot into the Clone normally and use both in a normal fashion.
Of course only one at a time.
You are making the Clone process way to complicated.
Some how you might be getting the Clone process and the Image process mixed or confused.
Watch the video in my post #9 again.
You can't have identical disk signatures on 2 connected MBR drives. Windows 7 at one stage would put the second drive with an identical disk signature offline. Then at some stage (I guess an old update) Windows automatically changed the disk signature of the second drive to avoid a disk signature clash. What I believe Macrium does in the intelligent sector copy cloning is to also change the disk signature in the BCD so your clone will boot.
If you transfer your OS to a new drive using system imaging it will retain the original disk signature on the new drive. The original and new reimaged drive should not be both physically connected at the same time. But again I don't think you will keep your restore points. I don't rely on restore points so it isn't an issue for me.
Last edited by mjf; 25 May 2016 at 03:54.
I don't use restore points because i don't trust them, i've read too many threads/posts where they don't work reliably, and they are not a "full" backup.
As an alternative i now use Macrium DIFFERENTIAL images, if/when i want a quick backup before making some change i'm not sure of.
You might consider using differentials rather than relying on restore points.
Also, I see an issue/error in your screen print in Post #18 where there is a listing for a Missing (duplicate) drive/partition.
You should figure out why you have that entry and fix it.
I have multi-boot PC's, and i don't assign a drive letter to the other (non-booted) OS drives/partitions.
I understand the disdain for RESTORE PTS, but there is some merit to their utility. You are correct that the RESTORE PTS will not be preserved in imaging. I have tried that on numerous experiments. Layback somehow got his to work by cloning & I cannot. It would appear the DISK SIGNATURE is my hang up based on the info I read from your posts in the past. So Layback circumvented this how? Did he reassign the DISK SIGNATURE? He does not indicate that he did.
From his statements he supposedly can swap 1 drive out for the other & that is what I want to do as well. That I can do, but the RESTORE PTS are either not accessible or do not exist.
Last edited by betaupsilon; 25 May 2016 at 10:39.