Cloning HD

Hi,

I want to cloning my hd of the HP desktop with the help of "Paragon Hard Disk Manager" and his wizard therefore.
After following the steps of the wizard, I finally get folow window (see link), thus, I want copy the hd 0 to an external drive, in the showed window: hd 5.
Isn't so that in the showed picture at least the hd 5 must show within the exact copy of the hd 0, now I see almost an empty hd 5.

Thanks in advance.

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7690/screenshot001vwf.jpg

OS: win xp
Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2010

 

Re: Clooning HD

When I click on the .JPG file, I get an icon and a message: "Domain Unregistered. To view, register at... "

Do I have to register somewhere to view this image?

 

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I am surprised,it has never been a problem previously

 

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It wan't work to insert the image in this forum, sorry.

P.S:
I think it's solved, because I choosed in the wizard the option "raw copy" what was wrong. B.t.w: what is a raw copy?

 

Re: Clooning HD

RAW copy copies all of the sectors in the partition whether used by your data or not. It is typically used to make images of disks or partitions that have unsupported filesystems on them or if the disk is damaged such that the filesystem can't be interpreted correctly. The damaged disk case would be used to make a copy before attempting to use recovery programs that might not work and cause the disk to be in even worse condition.

When the program makes normal images it does not go through the filesystem to access the data which permits imaging to be much faster. However, it does need the filesystem at the beginning of the process to create a bitmap of in-use sectors and possibly obtain some other information. In the case of the unsupported filesystem this would not be available so making an image of all the sectors is the only option.

 

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I thank You verry much for your explanation.

 

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An exact sector by sector copy of the source.

 

Re: Clooning HD

Thanks wptski.