Thanks, I hope I help make SharewareOnSale a functional place to share. As one who’s never done this sort of thing, is the UI simple enough for me to know what I have to do? …” Is this the kind of program I need to use, to clone the one disk onto the other? Letting it take a long time is no special problem for me. In this case, I’ve never cloned a hard disk before, but now for the first time in my life I do have an external hard disk with lots and lots on it (mostly family, nature, and traveling pictures), and I do want to make a copy of it (I bought a second external hard disk), if only for feeling secure about not losing my data. In response to [ “… Thanks, Peter – I continue to love you and your reviews. Thanks, Ashraf, for letting us explore this and share. ![]() resulted in the exact same error records as the source drive’s S.M.A.R.T., ouch, too ‘accurate’ a clone – we clone to get away from errors, not to migrate them on to the next drive! belongs to the drive itself only, and should not be dumped onto the target drive, but for me, the target S.M.A.R.T. I’ve also used a USB twin dock that clones without a PC in between the drives, but it seemed to copy S.M.A.R.T. It took 30+ hours to clone a 2TB SMR 2.5″ SATA HDD to a 2TB SATA SSD, both plugged in as SATA3 6GB data transfer rate ( in an 8GB RAM 3,800 MHz 2-core computer ). In response to [ “… it takes almost 4-5 hours to exactly clone a hard drive …” ![]() I wonder if the boot thumb drive and ISO will work forever, or if they check the system date and stop, so we’d have to set our system clock back before booting up to use the boot thumb drive past the license expiration date ( can we imagine if our cars died when our driver’s license expired?!? ). This also offers to repair and clone partitions, I’ll try those on well-backed-up drives. I need an adapter to perform my next disk clone task, and when the adapter arrives, I’ll try the feature and report back, and compare to other clone disk software. how did it squeeze a 4GB ISO onto 2GB drive? Maybe it trimmed off features to make it fit? But the 2GB thumb drive boots ( -s-l-o-w-l-y- ) and offers the full software suite of the original program as fully installed on the original Windows PC, so this seems to function that far. Oh I just saw a THIRD cloning product on Macupdate, also based in China "DMClone", look at the icon, look at the website, also JUST released a Catalina compatible release.On another PC ( fresh unblemished Windows 7 ), it installed and registered OK, and made a 4GB ISO that I can ‘burn’ to a USB thumb drive any time, and it can directly build a boot USB drive from which to control the cloning of two other drives – one a source, one a target, I used a 2GB thumb drive without thinking, and it went ahead and made a 2GB boot drive. For the record, this is not about it being based in China, other companies based in other countries have done this kind of thing before, so please don't construe this as 'anti' rant against in group of people or governments, etc. Both products JUST came out with a new release with Catalina compatibility, within days of each other. Is it misleading and questionable tactics? You decide. The icons are essentially the same design, the product verbage on the websites in some places is almost word for word identical. If you do a lookup on (site for AWEClone) and (site for DoYourClone), both are registered by Shanghai Meicheng Technology Information Development Co., Ltd., and both servers are on, using the same DNS 104.27 prefix. This product and the product 'AWEClone' are the SAME product, in my opinion, just rebranded, from the same parent company in China.
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