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1. 22 Supported hardware 3 3 4 Bus master IDE controllers Precondition for using DMA mode is that the attached PCI IDE controller also sup ports the Bus master IDE standard This is the case for most of the established in ternal and external IDE controllers Whether your PCI IDE controller supports Bus master IDE can be determined by means of the program PCISniffer if necessary which can be downloaded for free at http www miray de download sat pcis niffer html The field Classcode in PCISniffer has to contain the value 01018x x arbitrary for the respective PCI IDE controller Note For using Bus master IDE the settings and initializations made in and by the PC s system BIOS play a major role In case of problems with utilizing DMA it is likely that certain BIOS settings have to be accommodated correspondingly 7 4 3 Problems with DMA 3 3 5 Speed The speed DMA can achieve always depends on the physical abilities of a hard disk The rough classification below shows the approximate speed to be expect ed from a certain drive type Type Age Speed Older drives About 5 10 years About 5 30 MB sec Newer drives About 2 5 years About 30 60 MB sec Top models About 0 2 years About 60 120 MB sec and more SSDs About 0 2 years About 90 200 MB sec and more 3 4 SCSI If your edition of HDClone supports SCSI hard disks the following chapters pro vide important information on util
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3. fig 30 End dialog 5 11 2 Good bye screen After the termination of HDClone ei ther via the end dialog 5 11 1 End dialog or via the dialog window with the final report 5 10 4 Final report a good bye screen appears fig 31 You can then shut down the computer or reboot it Note If you dont want f to start HDClone when starting the computer the next time remove the HDClone fig 31 Good bye screen boot medium from the boot drive m Copying modes 57 6 Operating principles In this paragraph you find detailed descriptions upon the operating principles of the copying modes and upon the operating procedure of HDClone in case of defective media 6 1 Copying modes HDClone can handle entire hard disks as well as individual partitions The pro gram therefore offers different copy modes Their meaning effect and options are explained in the following subchapters However the different copying modes only represent the technical possibilities offered by HDClone Each copy ing mode has according to the system environment numerous practical possi bilities of application which cover the data recovery over the backup to the migration of entire operating system installations gt 2 Fields of application 6 1 1 Preliminary remark The copying modes offered by HDClone aim to cover as many possibilities of application of the 1 1 copy as possible Since many users have their own indi
4. Note Supported will show yes if the edition you use supports the selected drive Otherwise HDClone indicates here from which edi tion on that drive is supported m Selecting data source and target 41 5 7 5 Selecting a file image When selecting a file image fig 14 and fig 15 the selection list shows the staw Cora com MEME recognized drives and the partitions ge 06 2008 om JAJA AEA found on them All partitions of a cer aa T 02 07 2000 7568 FEI OIE tain drive are listed beneath the drive To in indented form The drives them selves cannot be selected The dialog for selecting a file image is to be found in the frame on the right of the list box The form of the dialog varies depend ing on whether the file image will be fig 13 File image browser the target 5 7 5 1 File image as a target or the source gt 5 7 5 2 File images as a source of the copying process In both cases you can use the button Browser below the frame to open the file image browser gt fig 13 It offers a more convenient layout for browsing larger folder structures with many entries With Cancel you can return to the file im age selection dialog page without any changes Click on OK to use the file im age selected in the browser Note If you are running HDClone W and mapped network drives are not displayed in the selection list this may probably be solved as described in gt 7 7 Mapped network drives 009 Isyste
5. Option Meaning Verifying Compares the data of source and target after copying Not to be used for data rescue as it yields unnecessary additional stress for a damaged drive 5 8 1 Verifying Copy free areas Include unpartitioned areas in the copy If the source is only partly partitioned this will speed up copying signifi cantly Only special contents e g backup areas dynamic disks volumes require to copy the free areas too MediaDirect Dell Deactivate MediaDirect software on the target SmartCopy Copying only Logical 1 1 copy 6 6 SmartCopy Defragmentation Copying only NTFS FAT Reorganize file system during copying Store downsizing Creating images only NTFS FAT Will store information info needed to downsize NTFS partitions when restoring the file image in the future Without this information parti tions can only be restored at their original size or larger Store defrag info Creating images only NTFS FAT Store information needed to defragment NTFS partitions when restoring in the future Without this information partitions cannot be defragmented during restoring Compression Creating images only Will create a compressed file im age to reduce the required free space for storing it gt 6 8 6 Compressed Images 5 8 4 Options for source and target In the columns Source and Target you find setting possibilities which relate es pecially to the drives selected for the copying process
6. Option Meaning Sector area Exactly definable copying area 6 4 Area copy 46 Program instructions Option Meaning Error threshold When copying to several targets the maximum number of defective sectors accepted per medium can be set here If this limit is reached the regarding medium will be exempted from the copying process There will be no further attempts to write on that medium This allows the remaining media to be copied at full speed For example a good value for practical use is 32 000 4k alignment Target only If this option is active the copied partitions will be automatically aligned to 4 kilobyte boundaries on the target medium If this option is disabled the copied partitions will be aligned at the usual cylinder boundaries CHS When the source is already aligned the option will be activated automatically Maximum image file Image only Defines the maximum size of the file blocks size stored within an image To be compatible with different file systems the default is 2 047 MB For burning an im age to CD DVD or BD later you may specify a different value CD 700 MB DVD 4 700 MB BD 25 000 MB 5 8 5 Advanced options The dialog page Options contains the Em o most frequently needed options sereret puree ie 4 MFastCopy WIRO WIRO More detailed settings are accessible SafeRescue moma moma z CachedMemory Bi Read ahead E Read ahead over the button Advanced option
7. 5 10 3 Adjust media parameters aust target manuelly Geometry used After finishing the copying process a dialog Normal OLarge LBA O User for adjusting media parameters appears 1 Hess Lea gt fig 27 Since HDClone creates a 1 1 copy aster boot record the data from the Master Boot Record MBR Adopt partition 1D and of the boot sector s are also copied to old 0x7 HPFS NTFS new OxB FAT32 the target medium As this characteristic of a Adjust partition size 1 1 copy sometimes causes problems in prac Didi ac aa UL CES tice HDClone offers to adjust the regarding media parameters optimally for the target medium Boot sector s Adjust offset Adjust CHS layout Patch boot code Change volume ID L Adjust No changes fig 27 Adjustment dialog 54 Program instructions Important In case you adjust the target medium it will no longer be T an absolute 1 1 copy Especially in case of forensic analysis you might want to abstain any adjustment oc HDClone automatically sets parameter values which are optimal for the respec tive medium in most cases They usually just need to be confirmed A manual change of the preset parameters is only needed in exceptional cases The pa rameters refer to the Master Boot Record MBR and to any known boot sector s and are grouped correspondingly Parameter Mea
8. 8 2 2 Image list The image list serves to manage the images added before and offers an over view of the partitions they may contain Partitions are always displayed right be low the image they belong to To make it easier to distinguish the kind of indi vidual entries in the image list there are different symbols listed below File image Image is not mounted File image Image could not be found ite File image File image Image is mounted perma Image is mounted nently SuperFloppy no MBR Partition Volume is not mounted Partition is not mounted Partition Partition is mounted SuperFloppy no MBR Volume is mounted NOL A O O B ES 88 Miray Virtual Disk SuperFloppy no MBR hh Partition Volume is mounted perma Partition is mounted perma nently nently Note In addition to the symbols listed above there is a column Sta tus where a mounted image or volume will be marked with letter M or if permanently mounted with MP 8 2 3 Tray icon You can see whether Miray Virtual Disk is active or not from the program joue icon appearing in the System Tray rcp ERES Tray icon You can open the program ME Quit Miray virtual Disk window by double clicking the Tray icon Right clicking the Tray icon opens the context menu gt fig 45 which gives you direct access to the following four functions Autostart fig 45 Tray icon and context menu o Autosta
9. 2 2 Data rescue In case of hard disks with defective areas it is especially important that they are being rescued to an intact medium before starting any recovery attempts Oth erwise depending on the kind of defect the recovery procedure may cause further defects resulting from the inherent exposure of this procedure Of course using HDClone also cases exposure for the hard disk But the physical copying causes much less exposure than any other usage due to its linear operation i e only continuous movement of the disk s heads Furthermore the option SafeR escue gt 5 8 5 Advanced options is able to reduce exposure to an absolute minimum In very critical cases you can also just copy single partitions to reduce exposure for the medium even more 6 1 5 Partition to partition After hav ing rescued the data from the defective hard disk you can perform a recovery on the functional target medium without having to fear any further damages Note Only a physical copy allows to rescue all of the data except the irrecoverable areas even if there are logical errors resulting from defective areas The logical errors can be corrected in most cases by the recovery but missing data could not be restored Hence the data should be copied to a target medium of the same size or a larger target medium in either case 6 2 Size differences For this reason also never use the Smart Copy mode gt 6 6 SmartCopy for rescuing data
10. 94 Miray Virtual Disk Hint You can undo the changes caused by data written to an origi nal image Double click the desired file image in Windows Explorer and delete all files with an ovl extension in the folder Afterward the file image has its original state Any changes made to the virtual drive are then made undone 8 5 3 Direct read write access In this mode Miray Virtual Disk writes directly to or reads directly from a RAW im age It offers the fastest possible access comparable to physical media access in average This mode will immediately and irrevocably change the RAW image in contrast to normal read write access gt 8 5 2 Read write access default Therefore you may consider creating a copy of the original RAW image before using direct read write access Note This mode can only be applied to RAW images Il 8 5 4 Converting to RAW image One main advantage of Smartlmages is the strongly reduced size they require for storing When using Miray Virtual Disk RAW images offer a clearly higher ac cess performance of the virtual drive If required you can convert a Smartlmage to a RAW image via Extra gt Create RAM image m Terms of license 95 9 Miscellaneous 9 1 Terms of license HDClone is designed to offer you the highest possible technical flexibility and also the HDClone license conditions are designed not to limit your flexibility when using HDClone Since you usually don t kno
11. r Hint Alternatively you may create a RAW image or a phisical image You then can restore the image to another hard disk later or perform the recovery directly on the image by mounting it as a virtual drive using Miray Virtual Disk 8 Miray Virtual Disk 2 3 Installation backup HDClone also provides the possibility to create a local backup of an entire system m Master installations 15 installation If required a simple restore from the backup partition brings the sys tem installation back into its original state without any ballast faulty program installations viruses etc For this purpose create an unused partition in addition to the system partition of at least the same size to serve as a backup partition After having finished system installation create a file image in the backup partition us ing mode 6 1 9 Create partition image If needed restore the original system using gt 6 1 11 Restore partition image o Note Before restoring from the backup partition save your work files and other data from the system partition or store them on a third partition from the outset 2 4 Mass copying HDClone Enterprise Edition is specially designed for creating up to 16 copies at a time This makes it especially suitable for industrial duplication of pre installed software e g on hard disks or on CompactFlash media etc or for creating sev eral identical operating system
12. IDE ATA compatible or AHCI should be chosen but in no case RAID or SATA Additionally it may be nec essary to set the controller configuration to combined especially for allowing simultaneous use of IDE and SATA hard disks In this case there are only ports O and 2 or 1 and 3 available for SATA Please connect the SATA hard disks cor respondingly in this case 3 3 3 Multiword DMA and Ultra DMA HDClone automatically recognizes and uses bus master IDE controllers which al low data rates up to 133 MB sec resp 7 8 GB min Hereby Multiword DMA up to 16 7 MB sec as well as Ultra DMA UDMA are supported This can increase achievable data transmission rates by a multiple higher of the rates that can be achieved without DMA in PIO mode HDClone recognizes automatically wheth er controller and hard disk support DMA and then automatically selects the fastest usable mode Multiword DMA or Ultra DMA 33 66 100 133 Note Please take into account that both hard disk and IDE control ler have to support a certain DMA mode If the actual speed does not match the technical data of a hard disk the reason may be that the IDE controller only supports lower modes Furthermore the achievable values also depend on the physical abilities of the hard disk i e a hard disk with UDMA 6 theoretically 133 MB sec currently achieves an actual trans fer rate of about 90 MB sec
13. Operating field Quit HDClone 36 Program instructions E 5 4 2 2 Mouse operation Operating HDClone with the help of a mouse is done according to the point and click principle The right mouse key has no special function HDClone does not use drag and drop 5 5 Help You can open a context related help window at any point of the program by pressing the key lt F1 gt or the symbol in the upper right corner of the operat ing field fig 6 The help gives you useful hints on the current program screen The underlined text links in the help window enable you to jump to other help topics at any time o Note The program help is designed to give you useful hints when using the program The help is no complete program instruction That is why you should use this user s manual especially when you have problems or need more information on a topic 5 6 Selecting a copy mode Select the desired copying mode on the first dialog page gt fig 9 and fig 10 There are two views basically offering the same options They differ in how the copying modes are presented The classic view is focused on functionality while the category view displays the available copying modes task oriented 5 6 1 Category view The category view gt fig 9 allows you to choose a copying mode match ing the desired area of use backup restore and cloning The upper row of symbols shows the copying modes referring to enti
14. P The result is a file containing an exact im N C MUN age of the source partition Depending on the type of image used gt 6 8 Imaging fig 37 Create partition image the image file contains a logical image gt 6 8 1 Logical images or a physically exact 1 1 image gt 6 8 2 Physical imag es A physical image can be processed by third party programs in certain cases gt 6 8 3 RAW images In case of a logical image the data stored in the image file is identical to a direct copy using SmartCopy mode gt 6 6 SmartCopy i e only sectors in use of the partition are stored In case of a physical image or RAW image all sectors of the partition are stored bit by bit similar to a physical 1 1 Copy The copy mode create partition image is suitable for the following areas of use o Backup of single system partitions to a file 2 3 Installation backup o Creating master installations gt 2 5 1 Duplicating system installations o Data rescue to an image gt 2 2 Data rescue for further processing o Forensic partition image for further evaluation gt 2 7 Forensic data securing 6 1 10 Restore drive image This copy mode allows to restore the con tents of an image file to a drive It is used to restore backups to roll out master in stallations or to copy data previously saved to an image file back to a drive for data recovery or forensic evaluation It is fig 38 Restore drive image 62 Oper
15. gt 5 9 Copying data 5 8 1 Verifying The option Verifying is an exception to the options described in this chapter gt 5 8 3 General options This option has no influence on the copying perfor mance itself but offers the possibility to synchronize the data of the source and target after the copying process However the whole process of copying and verifying then normally takes approximately the double amount of time Choose this option according to your needs of copying and your time available Warning You should not activate verification when you copy hard disks containing defects that means in particular when you use HD Clone for a data recovery Physical damages on the drive could spread essentially faster because of the additional stress Furthermore the result of a verification of hard disks with defects has no real expressiveness for logical reasons 5 8 2 Locked options zn inactive amp inactive p locked active 3 fig 16 Selecting the options creating an image m Selecting the options 45 The options have show different availability and selectability depending on the copy mode selected Locked options cannot be modified but the displayed set ting is valid fig 16 shows the different states 5 8 3 General options In the column General you find options which relate to the operating method of HDClone and the copying process in general
16. 7 4 4 1 Switch to a lower higher UltraDMA mode In many BIOS setups the highest used UltraDMA mode can be selected manu ally If you have problems with DMA try to switch the used mode step by step to a lower level at the corresponding IDE channel Only if this does not solve the problem deactivate UltraDMA completely The controller then mostly auto matically uses multi word DMA which is at least faster than PIO You can switch the UltraDMA mode step by step to a higher level if you think you have not se lected the best possible UltraDMA mode 7 4 4 2 Activate deactivate UltraDMA Some BIOS setups do not offer a free selection of the UltraDMA mode but only an automatic recognition or deactivation If this is the case with your BIOS or if you have already switched to the lowest UltraDMA mode and problems keep occurring deactivate UltraDMA Usually multi word DMA is automatically available then which is often faster than PIO Only if this doesn t function either you should completely switch off the DMA mode in HDClone gt 5 8 4 Options for source and target If UltraDMA is deactivated in your BIOS setup you can activate it as a test of course in order to attain a higher speed if possible 7 4 4 3 Deactivate IO caching If there are problems in the PIO mode as well you should deactivate IO caches and buffers In particular the setting Dataport Postwrite if available should be switched to Disable if there are problems 8
17. Create drive image Creating a file image of an entire drive gt 6 1 8 Create drive image 38 Program instructions Create partition image Creating a file image of a single partition gt 6 1 9 Create partition image Restore drive image oe Restoring an entire drive from a file image gt 6 1 10 Restore drive image Restore partition image ue ew Restoring a single partition from a file image gt 6 1 11 Restore partition image r Note The copy modes drive to partition and partition to drive are designed for mutual use In general it is not possible to copy a work ing hard disk installation onto a partition and to use it there The in stallation rather has to be copied back to a hard drive first The partition serves only as a container for the hard disk data The same applies to copying a normal partition onto a hard disk Nevertheless there are some systems which know to handle media with just one single partition and without any partition table sometimes named SuperFloppy For further information on these copying modes please see 6 1 Copying modes After selecting the copy mode move to the next step by clicking next in the lower right corner of the operating field 5 7 Selecting data source and target When selecting the copy mode HDClone starts its device and drive recognition A small popup will be displayed before the next dialog page will be shown This
18. vidual requirements and cases of application for the 1 1 copy some of the of fered possibilities only lead to an intermediate step e g in case of a backup gt 6 1 6 Drive to Partition As long as you do not overwrite any areas containing data which is still needed you can try every copying mode without problems because the original remains unchanged Important In case of a data recovery from a defective hard disk you should first of all make a physical 1 1 copy or a physical 1 1 im age of the whole hard disk onto an identically big or a bigger hard disk gt 6 2 Size differences With that copy you can then try different copy ing modes or recovery trials without any risk regarding the original data 6 1 2 Physical copy A physical copy copies a cohesive area of a hard disk onto another area on the same hard disk or onto another hard disk It is capital for the usability of the copy and its integrity which area is copied and onto which area on the target disk the data is copied To keep the process easily manageable for the user and to allow you to create a copy according to your wishes and needs in the easiest way pos sible see also 6 1 1 Preliminary remark HDClone offers the copying modes described in the following subchapters Which copy mode fits best for a certain 58 Operating principles use case is described below as well as in 2 Fields of application 6 1 3 Logical Copy A logical copy takes only
19. a higher edition is required to use them with HDClone For this purpose simply start HDClone Free Edition on the respective PC chose a drive to drive copy and click on Next All drives displayed there as well as the associated control lers have been recognized by HDClone and are supported by one of the avail able editions Which edition will be necessary to utilize a certain device type can be seen from the info box at the right side of the list box when you select the regarding drive gt 5 7 4 Drive information o Note Please ensure that you connect the needed USB devices be TI fore starting the program to ensure that they are recognized correct ly gt 5 1 Preliminary steps 3 2 2 Standards To be able to support as many devices as possible HDClone implements the ef fective standards for the appropriate device types Device support in HDClone 20 Supported hardware primarily refers to the standards applicable to the appropriate device type In addition we perform extensive tests with each device type Those test also re veal that there is a number of devices which themselves implement their re spective standard only insufficiently or even inaccurately Furthermore it is pos sible that some problems occur in certain hardware configurations usually in certain combinations of controller and device If possible HDClone tries to sup port even such devices and to bypass the any hardware deficiencies How
20. can take one minute or more The time required depends on the number of drives connected If it takes more than five minutes there may be technical problem In this case you find further information in 7 Troubleshooting 5 7 Selecting data source and target In the two following steps you select the data source and the target for the copying process The left half of the operating field shows a selection list On the right side is an info box containing details on the currently selected element Ac cording to the selected copying mode you can select either an entire drive or a single partition The following sub chapters give you more detailed information After having selected the data source in the first step another dialog page ap m Selecting data source and target 39 pears for the selection of the target After these two steps you come to the se lection of the options 5 8 Selecting the options 5 7 1 Selecting a drive When selecting a source or target drive fig 11 you see the devices recognized by HDClone in the selec tion list The info box on the right side shows more details on the selected el ement 5 7 4 Drive information Select the desired drive and confirm your selection by pressing Next in the lower right corner of the operating field and go to the next step m fig 11 Selecting a drive 5 7 2 Selecting a partition When selecting a source or target par tition gt fig 12 the
21. first 32 sectors on the drive If the type of source or target is parti tion the value refers to the first 32 sectors of the partition and may be lo cated at an arbitrary position of the drive depending on the partition table 6 5 Mass copy MultiCopy mode n case of a mass copy the contents of the source medium are copied on mul tiple target media at the same time As a result there is a huge benefit regarding time and performance since the source data only has to be read once and the data can be written on multiple target media at the same time 66 Operating principles 6 5 1 Mode of operation With HDClone creating a multi or mass copy works exactly the same simple way as creating a single 1 1 copy The only difference is that multiple target me dia can be selected instead of only one It becomes available as soon as the op tion MultiCopy is selected in the target medium dialog page gt 5 7 Selecting data source and target Then you can select multiple target media from the list The further procedure then is the same as when creating a single 1 1 copy o Note When creating a mass copy the result on a single medium is identical with the result of a single copy This is also valid when using one of the different copying modes gt 6 1 Copying modes regard ing the result there is no difference in comparison to a single copy 6 5 2 Speed Mass copying yields an enormous advantage in speed com
22. lt F2 gt lt F10 gt or lt Del gt BIOS dependent to en ter BIOS setup and set the required boot device order there For trouble shooting loading problems of HDClone please view chapter gt 7 1 Load er rors m Program screen 33 5 2 2 Windows program Start HDClone from the Windows start menu at Programme gt HDClone gt Start HDClone or by starting the executable file hdclone exe from the genuine HDClone medium or directly from your software package 5 2 3 Command line program You may include HDClone in automated workflows like shell scripts or time trig gered tasks For this kind of usage there is a command line version of HDClone hdclone cl exe to be found in the program folder of HDClone It is especially suitable for the following fields of application o Calling it from shell scripts or batch files o Creating a permanent link on the Desktop or in the Start menu o Creating time triggered tasks by calling HDClone through the Task Scheduler This allows to integrate HDClone seamless into existing scripts or batch process es You can also create Desktop links for frequently used cloning configurations to call them easy manually or automatically on demand Usage of hdclone cl exe is described in detail in 6 10 Command line interface 5 3 Program screen Status field Title of dialog page i Help Operating field Selection graphic Lz fig 6 Program screen The HD
23. o SCSI hard disks internal amp external o USB hard disks internal amp external o Firewire hard disks internal amp external o USB keys CompactFlash I CompactFlash Il MicroDrive SD MMC o xD Picture Card Memory Stick Memory Stick PRO Memory Stick DUO D CompactFlash media with TruelDE support Must support the USB Mass Storage Class protocol Via an appropriate USB card reader m Compatibility 19 3 1 3 Supported controllers o Under Windows HDClone W any controller supported by Windows o PCI IDE controller o Bus master IDE controller o PCI SCSI host adapter gt 3 4 2 Compatibility o SATA controller with IDE interface gt 3 3 2 SATA SATA II controllers o SATA II controller with AHCI interface gt 3 3 2 SATA SATA II controllers o USB UHCI amp OHCI controller USB 1 1 o USB EHCI controller USB 2 0 o USB XHCI controller USB 3 0 o EEE1394 OHCI controller Firewire 3 2 Compatibility HDClone has been developed for the hardware listed in 3 1 Overview and tested on a large number of devices HDClone also works well with many other devices Please use the HDClone Free Edition to easily check out in advance and for free whether the device in question is supported 3 2 1 Compatibility test 3 2 1 Compatibility test You can use the Free Edition of HDClone to find out easily if your hard disks other media as well as the associated controllers are supported properly even if
24. will remain mounted as long as the program is active In case this feature is used m Operation 91 in combination with the Autostart option 8 3 7 Autostart the respective vir tual drives will be available at any time while Windows is running o Note Password protected images cannot be mounted permanent Tl ly since the password would have to be stored This would compro mise password security and therefor is not supported If you want to mount images or partitions thereof permanently there are three ways to achieve this Select one or more images or partitions first o Menu bar Image gt Mount permanently o Context menu Mount image permanently Mount volume permanently right click on the desired image or partition in the image list o Hotkey Ctrl F8 Persistent mounting can be applied to images or partitions already mounted as well as to images or partitions which are not yet mounted As soon as an image or a partition has been successfully mounted persistently this will be displayed in the image list as follows o In the icon of the mounted image partition appears a small green point 9 o The capitals MP are displayed in the column next to the icon m Note To cancel persistent mounting mount the regarding image or i partition normally 8 3 4 Mounting an image or unmount it com pletely 8 3 6 Drive unmounting 8 3 6 Drive unmounting Ther
25. 1 7 Parti tion to drive which recovers the previously backed up data The drive to partition copy mode is useful for the following areas of use o Rescue of several drives onto one single drive gt 2 2 Data rescue o Backup of several drives 2 5 2 Handling several master installations o Backup of the data from several drives to one single drive for a subsequent forensic analysis and further processing gt 2 7 Forensic data securing o Temporary storage or intermediate storage of entire drives 6 1 7 PPartition to drive This copying mode copies the content of individual partitions onto a single hard disk gt This copying mode mainly serves to re y store a previously created backup of a hard disk or to bring in one of several pre viously stored master installations 2 5 2 Handling several master installations That is why it is normally used in combina tion with the drive to partition copying mode gt 6 1 6 Drive to Partition for a data recovery If an arbitrary partition is copied onto a hard disk on the contrary the hard disk is in most of the cases not directly usable fig 35 Partition to drive The partition to drive copy mode is useful for the following areas of use o Restore of a complete drive which has been previously backed up with the drive to partition copying mode 6 1 6 Drive to Partition o Multiple installations gt 2 5 1 Duplicating system installations o Decoupling o
26. AIC 789x O0Dxh AHA 3940U W D 8278h OOExh AHA 2944UW 8478h OOFxh AHA 3944U WD 8578h ji AHA 2930U2 0180h The IDs of your respective controllers can be determined by means of the pro gram PCISniffer At http www miray de de download sat pcisniffer html you can download it for free from the Miray homepage For the regarding PCI SCSI controller the values displayed by PCISniffer for the fields Vendor ID and Device D have to match the values specified above for your SCSI controller 3 5 USB f your edition of HDClone also supports USB storage media the following chap ters contain information regarding utilization and compatibility of USB storage media and controllers Note Please take care to connect USB devices already before start 8 ing HDClone 5 1 Preliminary steps and if possible directly to the PC resp to the USB controller 3 5 4 Hubs 3 5 1 Mass Storage Class USB storage media that is intended to be used with HDClone has to support the USB Mass Storage Class protocol This is an official standard which is supported by almost all current USB sticks USB card readers USB hard disks etc If you are not sure if a certain USB storage medium is supported by HDClone you can check this out easily and for free in advance by means of the Free Edition gt 3 2 1 Compatibility test 3 5 2 UHCI OHCI and EHCI In case of USB devices it is crucial that HDClone supports
27. The MultiCopy option can be activated in all editions of HD Clone even in the Free Edition This can be used to check in ad vance which speed can be achieved on a certain system by using the Enterprise Edition Please keep in mind that the achievable speed in this case strongly depends on the interfaces used most suitable IDE SATA and SCSI and the drive combinations only use master drives with IDE Hint MultiCopy mode can also be used in combination with imag ing gt 5 6 Selecting a copy mode In this case you can either re store the contents of an image file to up to 16 targets at a time gt 5 7 5 2 File images as a source or create up to 16 image files at a time to different media of course from one single source gt 5 7 5 1 File image as a target 5 8 Selecting the options On the dialog page Options you can set the options with which you want the following copying process to be executed Principally HDClone automatically 44 Program instructions sets the optimal options for the selected drives and the type of the copy Only modify the options to troubleshoot problems gt 7 Troubleshooting or when you are sure that this improves the performance of HDClone Note Improper modification of options may influencethe copying performance negatively After choosing the required options click Next You then come to the next dialog page where you can start the copying process
28. Usually the easiest way is to enter the BIOS Boot Selector BBS and select the USB key to start from The PC then boots directly from the USB key instead of the installed operating system Depending on the regarding BIOS of the PC the USB key is displayed in the BBS menu under its name e g Miray USB as USB me dium USB HDD Removable Device or a similar caption f the USB key is not listed in the BBS menu at all it is required to activate support for USB boot media in the BIOS setup first This setting is to be found under dif ferent captions and menu items depending on the regarding BIOS In most cases they are to be found under captions like USB Boot and Legacy In BIOS setup you can also preset booting from USB firmly usually under the menu item Boot a certain key on the keyboard depending on the BIOS In most cas es the startup screen shows which key to press For the BBS menu it is F8 or lt F12 gt in most cases rarely lt F11 gt BIOS setup usually is called with the F2 or Del key O Hint You can enter the BBS menu directly when starting the PC with 32 Program instructions 5 Program instructions The following chapters give a detailed description on how to operate HDClone from the start to the end o Note Depending on the edition you use there may be differences in i the features described in this and the following chapters Please check in gt 1 4 Edition overview
29. Virtual Disk This software can be used to mount file images created with HDClone as Windows drives This allows for directly accessing files and folders stored within a file image to be ac cessed directly without having to restor the image to a disk before Miray Virtual Disk may be started on demand or automatically at system start up time This also allows for mounting file images either just on demand or persistently o Note You can also open and mount file images directly which are located on network shares with limited access meaning they are only available to certain users 8 1 Installation Miray Virtual Disk is included with the HDClone setup 4 2 1 HDClone Setup During setup you can choose to install Miray Virtual Disk 4 1 3 Miray Virtual Disk It will be installed to a separate location in the Program Files directory 8 2 Program startup You can start Miray Virtual Disk from the Windows Startmenu right in the HD Clone folder As soon as you start it the program window will pop up fig 39 Since Miray Virtual Disk will mainly work in the background the program icon will appear in the System Tray You may close the program window at any time Mi ray Virtual Disk will remain active in the background You can return to the pro gram window at any time using the program icon in the System Tray 8 2 1 Program window Brig vont 000 T Fle Image Bea Info Status Fie mage Dive BackupzD12 ing
30. a m epe Re UR SURE Da eR AE 67 6 8 Mangana or rre Ste A Ma o na dependeat did te tts 67 6 81 Logicalimages esse 68 6 8 2 Physicalimages cocco Reverend 68 6 8 3 RAW iMagES i conoci bed pae EEES Iber es ended 68 6 8 4 VMDK images ciis eR ERE EIEEREGH HARE ADR Ad 68 6 8 5 Mode of OperabloEi cce anga aa tee mmt nt eos 69 6 86 Compressed Mages sasaka esses esses 69 6 8 7 Password Protection rn runn 70 6 8 8 ENGHYPROM 5 us eaer nag arda aa edet tad Ub es ER ad 70 6 8 9 Storing Images on CD DVD a 71 6 9 IDefraermientatior naa aan na tena signin amine ian aang 71 6 10 Command line interface 0 2 0 eee eee 72 6 10 1 Prograr call ette Dr rmt DERE ans 73 6 10 2 Optional parameters 20022 73 6 10 3 REtufN values isa au a ga gagan a a agan ea nd 74 6 10 44 IRGSIZIDIE Sa reo aa a aaa sya deine an aia anara n di itive ta na 75 6 10 5 Examples of US 5 saa er p Rr bere E BA Rede 76 7 Troubleshooting aaa aa rper rtr BA AAN BA a aa Bad Des 77 Table of Contents 7 FA Toad EO Se isses E cage ne AT ode DEAE Req MARRS ME Rd 77 7 1 1 Error 5002 and Disk eror LT 7 4 2 Oheremons eee 77 7 2 Keyboard and mouse iis sd bea ERR ea panan edd 78 7 3 General problems issssssssssssssssss ses 78 7 3 4 Slowed down system 0 00 0 eee 78 7 3 2 Read write and verification MOrS 78 74 JDE ATA SATA einne pitana ag
31. and therefore is also a real performance value of the hardware m Selecting the options 43 o Note If the option MultiCopy 5 7 7 MultiCopy mode is select ed the speed measurement is being performed for all selected me dia at the same time Hence it determines the maximum possible concurrent total data throughput of these media This is especially relevant for potential use of the Enterprise Edition but also represents a performance test of the entire system The speed that can be achieved strongly depends on how the tested media are connected to the system 6 5 2 Speed 5 7 7 MultiCopy mode When selecting the target medium you can use the check box MultiCopy to ac tivate MultiCopy mode 6 5 Mass copy MultiCopy mode In this mode it is possible to select up to 16 drives or partitions at the same time For doing so click on all desired list entries The selected entries then will be marked with a dark blue background To remove a marked list entry from the selection it simply has to be clicked again You can then use the SpeedrTest gt 5 7 6 SpeedTest to measure the data throughput of the selected drives or partitions in parallel op eration Copying to multiple drives in parallel is only possible with the Enterprise Edition It allows to copy to up to 4 8 or 16 targets at a time depending on the stage used Enterprise Edition 4x Enterprise Edition 8x or Enterprise Edition 16x Note
32. are provided in the from option onloff The following table lists the available options The values printed in capital letters ON or OFF represents the default value for the respective parameter This val ue will be used if you do not explicitly provide this parameter The individual op 74 Operating principles tions correspond to the options of the graphical HDClone program Option Meaning verify on OFF smart ON off freespace on OFF swapfiles on OFF timestamp ON off compression on OFF quick raw on OFF defrag on OFF resizeinfo ON off resize resize size resize fixed resize skip resize AUTO resize p1 p2 p3 skip pnr pnr list Perform an additional verification 5 8 1 Verifying Faster copies and smaller images by having HDClone use logical file system information gt 6 6 SmartCopy Copy unused areas 5 8 3 General options Copy pagefile sys and hiberfil sys gt 5 8 5 Advanced options Automatically extend the names of image files by a time stamp For labeling periodic backups and to avoid identical naming of file images Without this option the command line version will cancel the process in case of identical names Create a compressed file image quick activates QuickCompress 6 8 6 Compressed Images Create a RAW image 6 8 3 RAW images NTFS FAT only Also perform a defragmentation when copying or st
33. be al tered or a lock symbol E indicating that the size of the partition is fixed By clicking on these symbols you can toggle between both modes arbitrarily This allows to keep the original sizes of certain partitions while changing others or have them adjusted automatically Example Given you have a system partition C and two data parti tions D and E When migrating to a new larger hard disk you may want to resize the data partitions while the system partition keeps its original size First click on the symbol below the system partition to have it change to the lock symbol This will keep the system partitions s size fixed Then choose Automatic adjustment to have the data partitions resized pro portional to the newly available space Then click Continue FAT NTFS and ext2 ext3 ext4 partitions can be increased FAT and NTFS parti tions can also be decreased in size Each partition can be shrinked to the mini mum amount of space required by the data stored on this partition Enlarging or downsizing can be accomplished either automatically proportional to the size of the target medium or manually to an arbitrary size The original size of the parti tion is displayed in light green the minimal partition size achievable by downsiz ing in dark green The additionally assigned space when enlarging a partition is displayed in striped light green The size of partitions displayed in black cannot be altered Free space
34. be excluded from copying When clicking on the lock sym bol you can activate the partition again so that it will be copied In this case the check symbol appears again When you have selected all parti tions as desired click on Continue In case you want to copy all partitions and to skip the adjustment step 5 9 2 Adjusting partitions you can use the button Skip adjustment Any previous m Copying data 49 selection of partitions will then be ignored and all partitions will be copied in their original size and original location as given on the source For further information on the PartitionSelect mode see 6 7 PartitionSelect 5 9 2 Adjusting partitions In case partition sizes can be altered a dialog window appears before the copying process will be started gt fig 20 It allows you to adjust the size of several or all partitions to fit on the target medium as desired Ga parikan ata NAN ena eT Positions and sizes of the partitions on ve PEN the target medium are displayed ise S graphically in a bar Each partition has cest ae a cipher or from the tenth partition fig 20 Adjust partitions dialog on a letter assigned to it If you click on a partition in the bar the box on the lower left will display additional informa tion on the selected partition Below each partition number there is either a double arrow E the default setting showing that the partition size can
35. box is to be found It contains a list of file imag es found on the selected partition gt 5 7 5 Selecting a file image When clicking on an image in the list further details on the selected image will be displayed beneath the list Creation time and date size and type of image There are two information fields on fig 15 File image as a source the size First the storage size of the file image Second the original size of the medium stored in the image Regard ing the type of image HDClone distinguishes between an image of an entire drive and the image of a single partition or logical drive There is also an informa tion about which mode the image has been created with i e as a physical logi cal or RAW image Select the desired file image Confirm your selection with Next in the lower right corner of the operating field to proceed to the next step 5 7 6 SpeedTest On the lower right of the operating field you find the speed test icon labeled SpeedTest Here you can start a speed test for the currently selected medium Since it is only a pure reading test all data on the drive stays unchanged The test shows you the speed which can be achieved with the currently selected me dium In the first line it serves as an orientation guide for examining whether it would be reasonable to use a higher edition on the tested system or not The result reports the maximum achievable speed for linear reading on the selected medium
36. deleted by 2 starting the copying process 5 9 4 Copy animation In the center of the operating field there is the copy animation if you have not deactivated it when selecting the options after starting the copying process The copy animation shows that the copying process is running Especially other indicators only change rarely for example in case of read or write errors the copy animation shows that HDClone is still running 5 9 5 Status indication On the left and right side of the operating field you see the status indicators They contain information on the current status of the copying process Status Meaning Sectors processed Absolute number of sectors already copied Buffer size Size of the internally used buffer Read errors Number of the read errors occurred yet This number may decrease if errors can be fixed When starting the optional verification run this value is set back to zero Write errors Number of the write errors occurred yet This number may decrease if errors can be fixed When starting the optional verification run this value is set back to zero Running time Time passed since the start of the copying process 52 Program instructions Status Meaning Time remaining Estimated time remaining for the entire copying pro cess incl the optional verification run based on the cur rent copying speed Note The rest time can strongly increase in case of occurring read or wri
37. end of the medium fig 21 Option Keep original sizes 5 9 2 2 Automatic adjustment Free space on the target medium will be apportioned completely to the in dividual partitions proportional to their respective size fig 22 This increases the partitions sizes according to their part of the full size of medium Calculation of the size proportions is han dled automatically by HDClone fig 22 Option Automatic adjustment 5 9 2 3 Free adjustment You can adjust the apportioning of ad ditional space on the target medium to the individual partitions by yourself gt fig 23 You can change the size of a certain partition by clicking and dragging the corresponding area on the graphical representation fig 23 Option Free adjustment m Copying data 51 5 9 3 Security query Before the final start of the copying 3S Sis process a security query gt fig 24 aes appears where source and target of Drive 1 HDS728080PLA380 78 533 MB the copying process as well as corre Target Drive 5 Flash Disk 968 MB sponding security notes are displayed 5 H The content of the target area will Click Start copying to start the copy o TAAT VT UTD aq ing process and Cancel to return eres 4 369 MB ode maha WIL net b dip without starting the copying process L abort start copying fig 24 Security query Warning Any data in the target area will be irretrievably
38. exclusively via the command line and calling parameters This allows to use the command line version for areas of application for which the graphical version is not suitable like the following examples o Time triggered calling Scheduled calls of HDClone by the Windows Task Manager to start frequent or periodic copying processes automatically for example backups o Script integration Calling HDClone from scripts for integrating it into automated processes for example for data rescue mass installation deployment or for forensic tasks o Programmed processes For recurring copying processes you can create links in the Start Menu the Quick Launch bar or on the Desktop to allow these programmed processes to be called quickly and easily at any time Hint When calling hdclone cl exe help or without any parameters or with an insufficient number of parameters a list of supported pa rameters in combination with a short description of their usage will be displayed The following sub chapter lists and explains the supported parameters When appending them to the call of hdclone cl exe the order of the single parame ters is arbitrary m Command line interface 73 6 10 1 Program call The command line version of HDClone expects the following calling syntax o Copying an entire drive hdclone cl exe mode d2d srcdrv number dstdrv number o Copying a single partition hdclone cl exe mode p2p srcvol drvletter ds
39. installations gt 2 5 Master installations 2 5 Master installations 2 5 1 Duplicating system installations HDClone is very suitable for distributing or duplicating master installations 2 4 Mass copying Copy an entire master hard disk or master partition to the target medium to create a complete installation there and to have it ready for action 8 Note When duplicating Windows XP installation we recommend 8 to run the tool sysprep contained in Windows before cloning Further information on this is to be found at Microsoft at http www microsoft com search for sysprep 2 5 2 Handling several master installations Especially if you want to handle several different master installations the copy modes drive to partition 6 1 6 Drive to Partition and partition to drive gt 6 1 7 Partition to drive are very useful For this purpose use a hard disk as container and create one partition for each master installation on it Afterwards use the mode drive to partition to make a copy of each master hard disk to one of the partitions on the container hard disk Use the mode partition to drive to create a complete system installation from the desired partition on any system 16 Fields of application 2 6 Proprietary hard disk formats HDClone is capable of copying arbitrary hard disk formats Especially for hard disks installed in proprietary systems e g studio technology medical technology etc t
40. kee sya hia an aaa pa ERE Sd 79 7 4 1 Hard disknotrecognized a 79 7 4 2 IDE controller not found 0 008 79 743 Problems with DMA 0 0 2 0000 0020 c eee 80 TAA BIOS SetHInps reinnoit anga id eines ator poten ROBO ses 81 7 4 4 1 Switch to a lower higher UltraDMA mode 81 7 44 2 Activate deactivate UltraDMA 81 744 3 Deactivate IO caching 81 7444 Set BIOS defaults a 82 4 5 3SCSl uel eser btn neii au b ea plans niea dud er eiaa a 82 TIN Restalb ceeds ees ptr SERERE Md RE BERR REA E a 82 7 5 2 Deactivate unused controllers 82 7 5 3 Deactivate unused drives 0 2 0 0 000 00 83 7 5 4 Minimum configuration of the controller 83 7 5 5 Minimum configuration of the systems 83 746 USB petite ex eur EAE aran aa wl eg Medea ene 83 7 6 1 Storage device not recognized a 83 7 6 0 Other device problems ai 84 7 6 3 Controler not found ose Pete reete ses 84 7 64 Speed loss 0 00 84 7 65 Other controller problems a 85 7 7 Mapped network drives eee 85 Miray Virtual Disk saelas a he tie tae BAG betes bum ah A ag b ah a sink 86 8A TASER eaaa starter aa ents es aah eee eto TD Pd Pa at 86 8 2 Programi statUp ise te e aa ane sea e a arak aana a a aG 86 82 1 Program WiINdOWs
41. system and applications once again The target media should be of the same size as the source media or larger to ensure that all data will be copied For this type of ap plication you can utilize both modes 6 1 4 Drive to drive as well as 6 1 5 Partition to partition To select individual partitions of an installation for copying HDClone offers PartitionSelect mode gt 6 7 PartitionSelect o Note Please take care to have only one hard disk connected after completing the copy and before starting the operating system It should be plugged to the same channel as the original Hence ei ther remove the copy or connect it instead of the original medium 2 1 1 Unused disk space Additional free disk space on the target medium can be converted into a parti tion using the partitioning tool fdisk or the Windows Computer Management ap plication C WINDOWS system32 compmgmt msc It can then be used as an 14 Fields of application additional virtual drive You can also resize the copied partition so that it also uses the extra disk space of the target medium but this requires special tools 2 1 2 Smaller target medium In general you can also copy a complete installation from a larger to a smaller medium For NTFS and FAT file systems HDClone can perform downsizing auto matically For other file systems you can first downsize the partitions on the source medium with the help of appropriate tools before copying
42. the USB controller used HDClone is capable of all three common USB standards UHCI and OHCI m Firewire IEEE1394 25 for USB 1 0 1 1 EHCI for USB 2 0 as well as XHCI for USB 3 0 In the area of stan dard PCs all current USB controllers onboard controllers as well as adapter cards offer one of these three interface standards In case you are not sure though you can use HDClone Free Edition to check 3 2 1 Compatibility test 3 5 3 XHCI HDClone also supports the new XHCI standard Therefore it is able to use fast state of the art USB 3 0 SuperSpeed technology mass storage media of the lat est generation 3 5 4 Hubs USB devices are sometimes connected via a USB hub For achieving the highest possible transfer rate it is recommended to connect USB disks directly to the PC s USB port 3 6 Firewire IEEE1394 f your edition of HDClone supports Firewire you can connect arbitrary Firewire drives or card readers Connected devices must support the Serial Bus Protocol SBP in order to be recognized and operated correctly by HDClone Note Please take care to connect Firewire devices already before TI starting HDClone gt 5 1 Preliminary steps and if possible directly to the PC resp to the Firewire controller 26 Installation 4 Installation 4 1 Introduction HDClone does not require an installation in the usual sense and can be invoked directly as a Windows application Otherwise it ca
43. those area of a storage medium into account for the data transfer which are occupied by the operating system and data files gt 6 6 SmartCopy Any free areas including unused space within a file system will not be copied Since in most cases only a fraction of the available storage capac ity is actually occupied with data a logical copy is usually notably faster than a physical copy sometimes even a multiple out which areas of the medium will be copied Therefore it should never be used for defective media or corrupt file systems Other wise HDClone will behave unpredictable Moreover copies created under such circumstances are mostly faulty and useless since they are based on corrupted file system information Therefore especially for rescuing data please always use a physical copy in these cases gt 6 1 2 Physical copy Important A logical copy evaluates file system information to find 6 1 4 Drive to drive This copy mode creates a classical 1 1 copy Each sector of the source hard disk is copied to the same address on the target hard disk After the successful termination of the copying process hard disks of an identical size match in every sector Differ ent sizes of the hard disks result in a non copied or non overwritten area gt 6 2 Size differences fig 32 Drive to drive The drive to drive copy mode is especially useful for the following areas of use o Migration of an existing
44. which features your edition supports 5 1 Preliminary steps f you want to use USB devices for the following copying process connect the devices before starting HDClone and leave them connected until the copying process is finished Otherwise it is not guaranteed that HDClone recognizes them correctly Do not use a USB hub to connect USB storage devices always connect the USB storage devices directly to the USB controller or the PC case gt 5 2 2 Windows program or as a self booting application gt 5 2 1 Self booting program To start the self booting HDClone you need a bootable HDClone CD or floppy disk If you dont have HDClone on a bootable medium you can create it as described in chapter 4 Installation Note HDClone can be started directly as a Windows application 5 2 Starting the program 5 2 1 Self booting program Insert the bootable HDClone CD floppy disk into the corresponding drive or plug the bootable USB key to your PC Switch on the computer or reboot it Make sure that the BIOS boots from the respective drive or USB key 4 4 Boot ing from USB key HDClone will then start automatically from the bootable me dium and the program screen appears Note In case your PC does not boot from the HDClone boot me dium press lt F8 gt lt F11 gt or lt F12 gt BIOS dependent immediately after turning on the PC to enter the boot menu Select the HDClone boot device there Or press
45. which the media to be copied is connected to mostly with only one 96 Miscellaneous usage per computer To find a fair regulation for all use cases you can choose between a license per dedicated PC and a license for a lump number of work station PCs where HDClone could be used Furthermore you need additional licenses if you use HDClone potentially in parallel on several PCs for example if several service employees use HDClone independently from each other That is why you need at least one license per branch office because this also repre sents a potentially parallel use 9 1 2 Examples The following examples refer to frequently occurring license situations o A company with 50 PC work stations needs two licenses of the Professional Edition whereof each covers 25 PC work stations o A company with 100 PC work stations needs four licenses of the Professional Edition one for 25 PCs each o A service provider with two PCs that serve as HDClone copy station needs two licenses of the Professional Edition one for each copy station o A service provider with two field service employees who use HDClone needs two licenses of the Professional Edition one for each independently working technician 9 1 3 Scope A license is unlimited concerning the number of usages and the period of valid ity It can be used as often as desired and without a time limit However the li cense is limited with regard to the also potentially parall
46. 1 HDClone Setup Start setup exe fig 1 and select the desired options on the first screen Then follow the instructions displayed to install HDClone on your Windows PC After setup has finished you are asked in the final screen to choose whether to start HDClone directly Note HDClone Setup also will install the software Miray Virtual Disk as far as you did not deselect it on the first screen This will also in clude a software driver to be installed For this reason a Windows dialog window regarding driver installation fig 2 may appear during set up Confirm it with Continue Anyway In case Windows will display the Found New Hardware Wizard fig 3 close it with Cancel 28 Installation Hardware Installation A The software you are installing for this hardware Miray Virtual Disk Adapter has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP Tell me why this testing is important Continuing your installation of this software nonin impair or destabilize the correct operation of your syst either immediately or in the future Microsoft GAN recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed Windows Logo testing Continue Anyway STOP Installation fig 2 Windows dialog Hardware Installation Found New Hardware Wizard Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizard Windows will search fo
47. 11 FE BE SE PE EE Hard disks gt 2048 GB 2 TB Firewire IEEE1394 OHCI SCSI hard disks 9 9 9 Copy modes Drive copy Partition copy SmartCopy PartitionSelect MultiCopy 4x 8x 16x O O O O e O O O e e O 6 eo e O e e File images Physical images Logical images SmartImage Compressed images Password protected images Securely encrypted images RAW images VMware file images VMDK VMX 0 0 00 0 0 eo 0 0 0 O0 O O O O 66 Special modes HotCopy Upsizing NTFS FAT ext2 ext4 Downsizing NTFS FAT Livelmage SafeRescue mode Defragmentation NTFS FAT Verification mode mage compression QuickCompress Command line interface FastCopy mode O O O O O O O O O 0 e O O O O O O O O O O 6466666 Copying speed Maximum speed in MB per sec WwW o Un o a o 100 1000 Miray Virtual Disk Virtual volumes File image management Persistent virtual disks Writing data to virtual disks O OO O DO Oc o oO O ai a e e e x e e e 12 Introduction FE BE SE PE EE Virtual volumes TrueSpeed o o o e e License scope Private use Professionals corporations o o e e Technician license o o o SATA hard disks Have to be connected to a SATA controller supported by HDClone and the controller ha
48. 2 Troubleshooting 7 4 4 4 Set BIOS defaults If HDClone should not work as desired despite all the above mentioned instruc tions you can try to set standard values via the option Load BIOS Setup Defaults This setting tries to avoid possible hardware conflicts 7 5 SCSI When using SCSI devices please make sure that they are correctly configured and connected to the SCSI controller In particular SCSI controllers with SCSI BIOS must show a hard disk during the system start so that HDClone can then address this hard disk Furthermore HDClone must support the controller you use You find a list of the supported SCSI controllers in chapter 3 4 2 Compatibility o Note Even if an SCSI controller shows the desired drives during the system start this is no guarantee that they are correctly configured or connected In principle the BIOS of the SCSI controller works on a lower level than the SCSI drivers used by HDClone and can thus possibly recognize hard disk drives which are not recognized by HDClone itself HDClone has been tested on a range of SCSI controllers Sporadically encoun tered problems are bypassed by the software as far as possible The following subchapters contain useful hints on how to solve further random or sporadic problems These hints should be applied in the described order to minimize the effort if possible The following problems occurred during the tests and could be bypassed with the hints from the follo
49. Clone program screen gt fig 6 contains two fields in a lighter blue They are the active area of the program where all information is shown and all op eration steps are executed 34 Program instructions 5 3 1 Status field The upper field is the status field fig 6 It shows the parameters selected for the copying process Copying mode Source Target and Options Thus you at any point of the program which parameters you have already selected Further more the right side of the status field also shows license information 5 3 2 Operating field The lower field is the operating field fig 6 In the upper left of the operating field is the title of the currently shown dialog page together with a correspond ing symbol In the upper right are two general operating elements with the help button you can call up the interactive help at any point of the program 5 5 Help With the quit button X you can quit the program at any time gt 5 11 Closing the program At the bottom of the operating field you find the buttons Next and Back for navigating to the next or previous dialog page 5 4 Operation To create a copy you are led through five consecutive dialog pages where you can select the individual parameters for the copy and start and control the copy ing process These five dialog pages are shown in the operating field 5 4 1 Graphical control elements To control the program HDClone offers di
50. Fs He by JK 101 MB 34 968 39168 19568 19168 In the Miray Virtual Disk program win dow gt fig 44 you can open file im ages and create virtual drives There are three major elements the menu bar the image list 8 2 2 Image list and the control buttons at the bottom You may also control Miray Virtual Disk using the Context Menu right click on the image list or keyboard shortcuts hotkeys gt 8 3 Operation fig 44 Program window E k ja 7 H u u 3 268 P 2 3878 N EE ws E EE Q 10468 R R 5 u T 3 E 70168 13538 3 168 45528 GATI Cy Co Ep t ot B Cara Ca Ca CUP 3 m Program startup 87 You can use the control buttons to add an Image Add see 8 3 1 Adding an image to or to remove an Image Remove see gt 8 3 2 Removing an image from the image list Press OK to close the program window Miray Virtual Disk will though stay active in the background 8 2 3 Tray icon Note Adding an image to the image list does not automatically cre ate a new virtual drive In fact the image list is intended to give you an overview of the partitions an image contains This allows you to mount them specifically in a second step gt 8 3 4 Mounting an image Hint If you have several images in the list you may want to resize the program window freely by clicking and dragging the lower right corner
51. Miray Software AG m HDClone 4 2 Copy Backup Migration Rescue www miray de HDClone 4 2 User s Manual m Table of Contents 3 Table of Contents injure ra Tol E PM alent Ga Gel a GG Aa aka jerih ae Ka Retina B08 9 TA ChaptenOvenvieW 5 4 sas as aba an nagan gak pa ag a ER OM RI SERES 9 1 2 Character conventions aa sanan sek aaa a aaa ev nee E v PR Rx 10 MIU TM 10 1 4 Edition overview sssssssssssssses seh 10 2 Fields Of appliCetlOL same oe bees PO HP vb qe saa ken 13 2 1 Upgrading hard disks amp migrating an OS 13 24 1 Undsed diskspace x tme reete dane 13 2 1 3 Smaller target medium 14 2 2 Data TeScueu is Mea rain Hee ais CRURA epo ado edes CR RUE die 14 23 Installation backup ss I 14 2 44 Mass COPYING eee agan eremo ere eek site Rd ees ea 15 2 5 Master installations cm rre hp E REOR EIS RE DRE and 15 25 1 Duplicating system installations 15 2 5 2 Handling several master installations 15 2 6 Proprietary hard disk formats 00 000 esses 16 27 Forensic data securihg aan a Gaga esie od te rez 16 28 Image files e 55 arietes hive be dass b eR Neap Pete d ndn duda 16 2 9 RlotCopy amp Liveltmage us soesree etitm to eee rir ES 17 3 Supported hardware saa aaa zs baud RR daz bassa due dads da 18 3 1 Overview aaa aaa a aan aaa aaa a a ENEE aaa aka a a ka EREE EREE RES 18 3 1 31 Hardware r
52. USB connector gt 3 Supported hardware This also includes many wireless mice given they are connected as a true USB device Input devices connected with Bluetooth are currently not supported In this case please connect a separate USB device If keyboard or mouse or both do not function with HDClone this is usually due to a wrong legacy emulation setting in BIOS setup On most computers you can fix this problem by changing activating or deactivating depending on the cur rent setting the emulation for PS 2 devices in BIOS setup Please consult your computer manual on how to change this setting since it may be named differ ently according to the respective BIOS In most of the cases you can find it un der the name USB Legacy Support or USB Keyboard Support often under Inte grated Peripherals or Advanced Options Note In some of the cases problems with PS 2 keyboards or mice Tj occur with active emulation for PS 2 devices If you dont use any USB devices please switch off PS 2 emulation in the BIOS setup 7 3 General problems 7 3 1 Slowed down system f you think the speed of the total system or the copying speed also with IDE and SCSI devices is too slow a USB controller can be the cause even if it is not used 7 6 4 Speed loss Note In case the working speed of a copy is significantly below the source medium and the technical performance data of the target medium imply a significan
53. aged please contact us as well and indicate the above mentioned data We will try to find a simple solution so that you obtain a valid license o Note Make sure that each data carrier you received bears its own security hologram with its own registration number and that this number has to correspond to the number of the program which has been started from this data carrier That means if you start the program from a floppy disk the displayed number has to correspond to the number of the security hologram on the floppy disk and not to the number of the security hologram on the CD 9 3 Disclaimer Parts of this product are based on works licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL The appropriate license is to be found at http www gnu org co pyleft gpl html On request to support miray de we will send you a copy of the source code Although HDClone was programmed with the largest possible caution and was tested on a large scale of different systems we hope you understand that we cannot assume any liability for the proper functionality of the program and that we are not liable for damages resulting from its usage subject to gross negli gence and intention 98 Miscellaneous 9 4 Feedback We are highly interested in your feedback If you encounter any program errors or if you have any improvement ideas we will always try to fix the errors and implement or integrate your ideas If you only want t
54. al partitions you may obtain several drive letters one for each partition containing a file system Windows is able to access When mounting an individual partition you may obtain one drive letter for this partition if Windows supports the file system it contains There are three ways to mount an entire file image or an individual partition Se lect one or more images or partitions first o Menu bar Image gt Mount o Context menu Mount image right click on the desired image or partition in the image list o Hotkey F8 As soon as an image or a partition has been mounted successfully this will be displayed in the image list as follows o The icon of the image or partition mounted will be displayed colored o The capital M is displayed in the column next to the icon o The drive letter s assigned to the virtual drives will be displayed in the row of the mounted image or partition Note The capital M always appears in the row of the object which has actually been mounted If you mount i e an entire image con taining two partitions M will appear in the row of the image In con trast if you mount both partitions individually the capital M appears in both partition rows but not in the row of the image 8 3 5 Persistent mounting You can make mounted virtual drives persistent This means that these virtual drivers will be mounted automatically with any start of Miray Virtual Disk They
55. ally and proportionally to its share of the entire medium The parameters for resizing lt size gt fixed skip auto may be specified repeat edly separated by a colon The parameters then will be applied to the partitions in the specified order In case there are more partitions than parameters speci fied the default parameter auto will be applied to the remaining partitions If 76 Operating principles there are more parameters specified than partitions available the remaining pa rameters are ignored This option works equivalent to gt 5 9 2 Adjusting parti tions Example There are four partitions on the drive but only two resize parameters are specified The first two partitions will be adjusted as specified The two remaining partitions will be resized automatically just as if the parameter auto was specified for them 6 10 5 Examples of use The following examples represent a selection of frequently used scenarios but they do not cover all possible variations or areas of use o Copying Disk 1 to Disk 2 physical 1 1 copy hard disk copy hdclone cl exe mode d2d srcdrv 1 dstdrv 2 smart off freespace on o Copying drive D to drive E with verification individual partition copy hdclone cl exe mode p2p srcvol D dstvol E verify on o Backup image store Disk 1 to file on E hard disk backup hdclone cl exe mode d2i srcdrv 1 dstvol E dstimg backup o Backup image store drive D to file on E co
56. ata rescue 6 2 Size differences To create a real 1 1 copy source and target must have the same size HDClone is also capable to create physical copies if the size of source and target differs The following subchapters describe according to what rules HDClone processes and what are the results 6 2 1 Equal size If source and target are of the same size HDClone creates an absolutely identi cal copy clone On this clone all sectors on source and target from the first to the last sector are 10096 identical provided that the process was error free Prin cipally HDClone can create such a clone in all available copying modes How ever only the mode drive to drive 6 1 4 Drive to drive guarantees that the individual sectors of source and target also have the same absolute position on m Automatic troubleshooting 63 the hard disk 6 2 2 Small to large If the source is smaller than the target HDClone copies only the data that is avail able on the source This data is copied from the beginning of the source onto the beginning of the target medium The area at the end of the target medium which is larger than the source remains unaffected Apart from that the unaffected area remains possibly unused during a later usage such a copy is usually comparable to a real clone as far as the capacity of use is concerned because the target con tains entirely all data of the source in contrast to gt 6 2 3 Large to small 6 2 3 La
57. ating principles recommended that a drive image is used as source Copying a partition image to an entire drive may yield a result which usually cannot be accessed directly The copy mode restore drive image is suitable for the following areas of use o Restore of an entire drive from a drive image 6 1 8 Create drive image o Rolling out master installations 2 5 1 Duplicating system installations o Copying back previously saved drive images for data recovery 2 7 Forensic data securing or forensic evaluation 2 2 Data rescue 6 1 11 Restore partition image This copy mode allows to restore the con Am tents of an image file to a partition It is 5 a used to restore backups to roll out master NUN ey installations or to copy data previously saved to an image file back to a partition fig 39 Restore partition image for data recovery or forensic evaluation It is recommended that a partition image is used as source Copying a drive image to a single partition may yield a result which is not usable for direct access in most cases The copy mode restore partition image is suitable for the following areas of use o Restore a single partition of a partition image gt 6 1 9 Create partition image o Rolling out master installations 2 5 1 Duplicating system installations o Copying back previously saved partition images for data recovery 2 7 Fo rensic data securing or forensic evaluation 2 2 D
58. case D Important Never use SmartCopy mode for 2 2 Data rescue Only OE 6 6 2 Usage For using SmartCopy simply activate the op SmartCopy tion SmartCopy gt fig 40 on the dialog page Y logical 1 1 copy Options gt 5 8 3 General options This mode accelerated cloning can be applied to entire hard disks or other media as well as single partitions SmartCopy currently supports NTFS FAT ext2 4 file systems In case of other file systems a physical 1 1 copy will be created even if the SmartCopy option is activated fig 40 SmartCopy 6 7 PartitionSelect The source and its partitions are dis played graphically in a bar fig 41 The partitions a numbered using capi tal letters from the tenth partition on Below the partition number there is either a check symbol WW the default setting showing that this partition will included in the copy or a block sym bol C showing that this partition will fig 41 PartitionSelect dialog be excluded from the copy By clicking on these symbols you can in or exclude any partition individually The Partition Select Dialog will always show the total size of the partitions selected to inform you about the effect of each selecting or de selection of a certain partition By selecting the partitions to be copied you can either choose to transfer only certain parts of a drive for example system partitions only or data partitions only Or to excl
59. d disk controllers which imple ment a different usually proprietary interface They are often also called IDE controllers as they allow IDE hard disks to be connected Since IDE stands for a programming interface Program Controller as well as for a hardware inter face Controller Drive it results in a double meaning See gt 3 2 1 Compatibil ity test about how to check if your PCI controller complies with PCI IDE standard m IDE ATA SATA 21 3 3 2 SATA SATA II controllers Precondition for the support of SATA drives is an SATA controller with IDE inter face or an SATA II controller with AHCI interface All popular chipsets from Intel with ICH 5 6 7 incorporate such an IDE compatible SATA controller Regretta bly many other SATA controllers only offer a proprietary programming interface Nevertheless it may be possible in case of onboard SATA controllers to activate a compatibility mode in BIOS setup which would allow HDClone to access the SATA controller As for SATA II controllers many models already implement the AHCI interface supported by HDClone Hint With HDClone Free Edition you can easily check out if your SATA or SATA II controller is supported 3 2 1 Compatibility test Connect at least one SATA drive and start HDClone If the SATA drive is recognized HDClone also supports the associated SATA SATA II controller O Note It might be necessary to adjust the SATA settings in BIOS As 8 mode of operation
60. e are three ways mounted images and partitions and the regarding virtual drives can be unmounted Select one or more images or partitions first o Menu bar Image gt Unmount o Context menu Unmount image Unmount volume right click on the de sired image or partition in the image list o Hotkey Shift F8 As soon as an image or an individual partition has been unmounted the respec tive icon in the image list will be displayed in gray and the capitals M or MP in the column next to the icon as well as the related drive letters will disappear 92 Miray Virtual Disk 8 3 7 Autostart You can select to start Miray Virtual Disk automatically at system startup Auto start Especially in case of persistently mounted drives the benefit is to have them available at any time without having to start Miray Virtual Disk manually There are two ways to switch the Autostart function on or off o Menu bar Image gt Autostart o Tray context menu Autostart right click on the Tray icon The menu item indicates whether the Autostart function is currently active If the menu item Autostart is displayed with a leading check mark the Autostart function is already activated Without a check mark the Autostart function is not active Note If Miray Virtual Disk starts automatically at system startup 8 only the Tray icon gt 8 2 3 Tray icon in the System Tray will appear Double click the Tray icon to open the p
61. el use on several com puters and the size of the company or the institution concerning the number of existing PC work stations 9 1 4 Consultancy If you have questions concerning the license situation in your specific case please contact us at products Q miray de Miray Software gladly consults you on multiple licenses or more complex cases and offers you according to the indi vidual case attractive discounts We are pleased to make you an individual offer 9 2 Certificate of authenticity The following notes exclusively refer to the boxed versions of HDClone and not to the versions available as download or via email m Disclaimer 97 9 2 1 Security hologram For the protection against bootleg copies our software is equipped with a secu rity hologram among others Each of the original data carriers you received bears a security hologram Please keep the data carriers with the security holo gram in any case because this is your license proof 9 2 2 Valid product license The condition to have a valid product license is that the number printed on the security hologram corresponds to the number shown within the program If this should not be the case for your software package please email us at products miray de Please indicate the number displayed by the program the number on the security hologram and where you acquired the software package If there is no security hologram on the data carriers or if the security hologram is dam
62. equirements GG 18 3 1 2 Supported media aa 18 313 SUPPOrted contfollers seien rte KA 19 32 COMPA aaa ia ara ag reete e S ro S req RS TEERDE 19 32 4 Compatibility tas sasama ab Rr naa ig akan BA NI aa ZA 19 32 2 Standards nece etos dde e a depen Sa Eh 19 3 3 IDE ATA SATA n se ceasar ar naa Pepai aa e 20 3 3 1 IBE ATA controllers 5 och RERO Rs 20 3 31 30 SATAJSATA M Gontrollets toc ocium Smet ap nte ERE 21 3 3 3 Multiword DMA and Ultra DMA ae 21 3 3 4 Bus master IDE controllers 22 339 Speed esiis enia niea toss E VEERE ned fir EE gag ga rne 22 3 4 SCS ass aaa bei Ta ag EE aaa ang kaa da gg E ENTE a 22 3 4 1 Utilization GG 22 34 2 Compatibility onis cse ct tp E RITE E EIN ERR 23 3 4 3 Manufacturer information sessi 23 3 4 Driverinformation sese 23 4 Table of Contents 3 5 USB aan saa ana aap ad aa paga RN to hI OA RaQ ME RAD RUE a 24 3 5 1 Mass 5torage Class eee 24 3 5 2 UHCI OHCI and EHCOI 00 0002 24 3 5 3 KC sss aaa ga Eh adhe he aaa da para eee 25 Sib Ac HUDS t aranan na ani KB AN Aa DANG dad ab a dat EN Nan ds E bah 25 3 6 Firewire IEEET394 cessas tx her Re KE ag nada ERA RA ES 25 A Inistallatiofi 5 aan ana Read rud beside deeded ona dee wind 26 4 1 Introduction s e 26 4 1 1 Bootable medium cisco RR ead ed 26 4 1 2 Sof
63. er left corner and adjust the settings Start the copying process with Start on the bottom center During the copying process you can watch the process with the help of the displays described below fig 18 Dialog page Copy data 5 9 1 PartitionSelect In case of using gt 6 1 4 Drive to drive gt 6 1 8 Create drive image or gt 6 1 10 Restore drive image copy mode a dialog gt fig 19 prompts you to choose the partitions to copy and renter EIE which to exclude from copying Select AE the partitions of the source a drive or a drive image to be copied to the tar get and the ones to be ignored with fig 19 Dialog Select Partitions out copying them to the target gt skip adjustment 5 If the total size of the partitions to be copied exceeds the total capacity of the target the graphic bar will be marked in red In this case you can exclude any partitions you do not need on the target until the remaining partitions fit on the target Alternatively you can click on Cancel to choose a different combina tion of source and target for creating the copy The default setting is to have all partitions selected If this meets your require ments you can simply click on Continue Otherwise select which partitions to exclude from copying by clicking on the check symbol T beneath the parti tion number The check symbol will then change to a lock symbol Z It signals that the partition will
64. es as well as physi cal and logical file images of hard disks and partitions Physical 1 1 copies ensure that the copy is sector by sector 100 identical with the source This allows HD Clone to create copies or file images of hard disks regardless of the respective partitioning scheme the used file system and the installed operating systern s Thus HDClone is especially suitable for the tasks described in 2 Fields of ap plication as well as for many other tasks o Note The physical copying process of HDClone for exact bit wise 1 1 copies and 1 1 images makes it suitable for many areas of appli cation HDClone s features make it a valuable tool even in special and extraordinary scenarios 1 4 Edition overview There are different editions of HDClone They differ from each other by the amount of features they offer particularly supported device types performance and special options The following table offers you a comparative overview of the editions and their features Subsequent there are short explanations refer ring to some of the topics listed in the table Note Within the table the following abbrevations are used to iden tify the different editions FE Free BE Basic SE Standard PE Professional EE Enterprise Device support IDE ATA SATA hard disks AHCI SATA II USB UHCI OHCI EHCI USB 3 0 XHCI O e o O 6 o e 6 6 o e o o e e 6 o Edition overview
65. ess source or target properly for exam ple device not found file image not found or exclusive access not allowed Password not specified or invalid password User abort lt Ctrl gt lt C gt Copying finished with verification errors Copying finished with read write errors overrides 7 Some other error occurred A specific error code is displayed with the console output of HDClone O00 Oo U 6 10 4 Resizing In case of copying or restoring you can use the resize option gt 6 10 2 Optional parameters to specify how to adjust the sizes of individual partitions on the tar get medium The resize option without any further parameters will cause all par titions to be resized proportionally to their original size You can specify one or more additional parameters to specify the resizing for individual partitions in their natural order on the medium These parameters are size Increases or reduces the size of a partition to the size value specified The values may be specified in sectors S bytes B kilobytes K megabytes M gigabytes C or terabytes T The desired numeric value has to be spec ified immediately followed without spaces by one of the unit specifiers above for example 10G 10 gigabytes or 500M 500 megabytes fixed Keeps the partition size without any changes skip Skips the partition meaning it will not be copied gt 6 7 PartitionSelect auto Adjusts the partition size automatic
66. ever these kinds of problems can not always be bypassed Hence even extensive tests cannot completely prevent that a problem appears in your special hard ware configuration In most cases this can be solved by setting the options ap propriately gt 5 8 Selecting the options and 7 Troubleshooting In case of even this does not work our support team gt 9 5 Support will be there to assist you with solving the problem 3 3 IDE ATA SATA Generally HDClone supports IDE ATA SATA hard disks A necessary precondition is to have them connected to one of the IDE ATA SATA controllers supported by HDClone gt 3 3 1 IDE ATA controllers and 3 3 2 SATA SATA II controllers 3 3 1 IDE ATA controllers HDClone supports standard IDE controller ISA and PCI IDE controller These may be internal onboard controllers as well as external PCI ISA adapter cards In case of ISA Standard IDE controllers the first two channels are scanned for hard disks HDClone recognizes available PCI IDE controllers autornatically and scans them for connected hard disks Note If there are one or more PCI IDE controllers available in the T1 system ISA controllers that are possibly present too will not be tak en into account HDClone supporting PCI IDE controllers refers to a standardized programming interface which is supported by a large majority of IDE controllers Nevertheless there are also others especially external PCI har
67. f hard disk data that has previously been saved in individual par titions for a forensic evaluation gt 2 7 Forensic data securing 6 1 8 Create drive image This copying mode allows to copy the contents of an entire drive to an image file The result is a file containing an exact image of the source drive Depending on the type of image used 6 8 Imaging the image file contains a logical image gt 6 8 1 Logical images or a physically exact 1 1 image gt 6 8 2 Physical imag es A physical image can be processed by third party programs in certain cases gt 6 8 3 RAW images In case of a logical image the data stored in the image fig 36 Create drive image m Copying modes 61 file is identical to a direct copy using SmartCopy mode gt 6 6 SmartCopy i e only sectors in use on the drive are stored In case of a physical image or RAW image all sectors on the drive are stored bit by bit similar to a physical 1 1 copy The copy mode create drive image is suitable for the following areas of application o Backup of an entire drive to a file 2 3 Installation backup o Creating master installations gt 2 5 1 Duplicating system installations o Data rescue to an image 2 2 Data rescue for further processing o Forensic drive image for further evaluation 2 7 Forensic data securing 6 1 9 Create partition image This copy mode allows to copy the con i tents of a single partition to an image file
68. fferent graphical control elements gt fig 7 and fig 8 The names used within this manual to designate the differ ent elements are listed and illustrated by examples in the following illustrations Check box 9 List box gt lt t Info box Button focused Button gt E fig 7 Graphical control elements 1 m Operation 35 Close dialog Dialog window Percentage Button inactive Progress bar fig 8 Graphical control elements 2 5 4 2 Operation with keyboard and mouse HDClone is operated by keyboard and mouse It is also possible to operate the program exclusively by keyboard or exclusively by mouse 5 4 2 1 Keyboard operation Keyboard operation always refers to the currently focused graphical element This element is highlighted by color brightness or an additional frame With the tabulator key you can switch the focus in turn to the other operating elements The following control keys have a function when operating the keyboard Key Control element Function Tab All Switch to the next element Arrow keys List field Select list element lt t 4 Selection graphic Highlight element lt Space gt Button Press button Selection graphic Select highlighted element Link Show link target lt Return gt Button Press button in dialog windows only Link Show link target lt Esc gt Window Close window only windows with x in the title bar
69. g areas of use o Migration of an existing operation system partition to another drive gt 2 1 Up grading hard disks amp migrating an OS Bootability cannot be guaranteed o Rescue of individual partitions gt 2 2 Data rescue o Backup and restore individual system partitions 2 3 Installation backup o Multiple installations of individual system partitions 2 5 1 Duplicating sys tem installations o Copying of proprietary file systems and data formats onto another drive gt 2 6 Proprietary hard disk formats only with a valid partition table o Backup of individual partitions for forensic analysis and further processing gt 2 7 Forensic data securing o Temporary storage or intermediate storage of a partition e g in case of a reor ganization of a hard disk o Relocating a partition within a medium or to another medium 6 1 6 Drive to Partition This copying mode stores a physical copy of a complete hard disk in a partition on an other hard disk Physical images of sev eral hard disks can be stored on a single hard disk for example in different parti tions gt 2 5 2 Handling several master in stallations In most of the cases such a partition cannot be used directly This copying mode mainly serves to create a backup of a hard disk This is why it is fig 34 Drive to partition 60 Operating principles mostly used in context with the partition to drive copying mode gt 6
70. hen have the choice between Normal com pression default and the QuickCompress fig 42 QuickCompress Feature gt fig 42 The latter offers a lower compression ratio than Normal compression but in run it requires almost no ad ditional runtime To create backups quickly while saving some space please choose QuickCompress To maximize the amount of saved space please choose Normal compression 70 Operating principles Regarding operating HDClone and the files where images are stored in there is apart from the file size no difference between compressed and uncom pressed file images from the user s point of view Hereby creating compressed file images will consume more time than decompressing file images at restore Respectively the transfer speed when restoring compressed file images is usu ally faster than creating compressed file images o Note Activating Normal compression usually leads to a lower copy ing speed since compressing data consumes extra time But in spe Cial cases creating compressed file image can lead to an even high er copying speed as well when creating as when restoring file images This may be possible especially when the medium containing the file image is relatively slow for example slow USB keys mass storage media connected via USB 1 1 or slow network drives 6 8 7 Password Protection When creating file images you can protect them with a password Option Pas
71. here are often no programs besides system software which can read the data on these media HDClone can rescue this data or moving it to a new medium without any problem The best way is to copy the original medium to a target medium of the same or larger size A target medium smaller than the original medium should not be used as it cannot be assured that all relevant user data will be transferred in this case 8 Note In case of unknown or proprietary non standardized for 8 mats always copy the entire original medium Even if HDClone reports partitions it cannot be assured that this information is cor rect due to the proprietary hard disk format You should only use the parti tion to partition mode 6 1 5 Partition to partition if you know for sure that the partitions are reported correctly 2 7 Forensic data securing HDClone is also very suitable for securing data for forensic purposes as really all data from a hard disk is copied including data that has possibly been hidden or deleted This data cannot be reached any more via the usual file system mecha nisms Therefore it will be useful to create a copy in drive to drive mode 6 1 4 Drive to drive or a RAW image 6 1 8 Create drive image before performing a detailed forensic analysis of secured media This allows you to make changes to the copy during analysis without altering and thus endangering the original content of the medium o Note When sec
72. icense 2 3 4 E 6 8 m Upgrading hard disks amp migrating an OS 13 2 Fields of application HDClone is specialized on creating physical copies Therefore HDClone offers particular advantages for copying resp rescuing defective media 2 2 Data rescue In addition HDClone is able to work independent from partitioning scheme file system and operating system This allows to copy entire operating system installations gt 2 1 Upgrading hard disks amp migrating an OS or to be able to create an exact copy in case of unknown proprietary file systems 2 6 Pro prietary hard disk formats Altogether HDClone covers a wide spectrum of pos sible applications by its universal copying technology In the following you find descriptions of the most common areas of application of HDClone The individ ual chapters contain instructions as well as further advice regarding accomplish ment of the respective application Hint HDClone allows you to copy data arbitrarily between all types of media recognized particularly between different types of drives Oo 2 1 Upgrading hard disks amp migrating an OS Since HDClone works independent of file system formats and operating systems you can use it to migrate entire installations incl the installed operating system to another hard disk This is especially useful if you want to migrate an existing installation to a new hard disk without having to install the operating
73. ient hardware and also occur under other operating systems We recommend you to have the concerned device replaced by your vendor 7 6 3 Controller not found HDClone should recognize all current USB controllers which offer one of the USB standard interfaces gt 3 5 2 UHCI OHCI and EHCI If HDClone recognizes USB devices on one PC but not on another PC or on another controller the USB con troller can have one of the following problem o The USB controller does not meet to the UHCI OHCI or EHCI standard In this Case use another compatible 3 5 2 UHCI OHCI and EHCI USB controller o The USB controller is deactivated e g in case of an onboard USB controller Activate the USB controller via the BIOS setup o The USB controller does not function correctly or is defective Use another USB controller or another PC for the copying process 7 6 4 Speed loss USB controllers can have a negative effect on the speed of the whole system m Mapped network drives 85 This particularly affects the copying speed of al device types also IDE and SCSI even if no USB storage device is connected Remove the corresponding USB controller if it is not needed during the use of HDClone Otherwise there a no negative effects apart from the speed loss 8 Note In our tests this problem showed up with only one USB con 8 troller VIA VT6212 and also persisted on other computers and op erating systems with this controller The
74. ing to information from the manufacturer the drivers used in HDClone currently support the following SCSI controllers o Adaptec AHA 2930U o Adaptec ASC 19160 o Adaptec AHA 2940 Ultra o Adaptec ASC 29160 o Adaptec AHA 2940UW o Adaptec ASC 29160LP o o Adaptec AHA 2940AU o Adaptec AHA 2944UW Adaptec ASC 29160N Adaptec ASC 39160 o 3 4 4 Driver information According to information directly from the drivers they support a number of other SCSI controllers too which are partly built in as onboard chipset AIC or found on adapter cards AHA ASC They can be recognized by their respective PCI vendor ID and PCI device ID which are listed in the following table Vendor Model Device Vendor Model Device 9004h AHA 2930U 3860h E AHA 4944UW 8678h i AHA 2930CVAR 3868h AIC 7887 8778h i 3869h AIC 7888 8878h AHA 4944 U W 3B78h AHA 4944 U W EC78h AIC 755x 5x75h 9005h AHA 2940 50U2W 0010h AIC 785x 5x78h AIC 789x 001xh AIC 7560 6075h 002xh 24 Supported hardware Vendor Model Device Vendor Model Device AIC 786x 6x78h 003xh AIC 7870 7078h AHA 3940 50U2x 0050h AHA 2940 W 7178h j AHA 3950 U2x 0051h AHA 3940 W 7278h M AIC 7896 7 U2 OO5Fh AHA 2944 7478h AIC 789x 006xh AHA 3944 W 7578h i i 007xh AHA 4944 U W 7678h H AIC 7892 A B JU160 008xh AIC 7877 7778h AIC 789x 009xh AIC 7860 7860h ii OOAxh AIC 7895 7895h OOBxh AIC 7880 8078h li AIC 7899 A U160 OOCxh AHA 2940U W 8178h
75. ir tual Disk will memorize these images for the next program startup 8 3 2 Removing an image Select one or more file images you want to remove from the image list There are four ways to remove file images from the image list o Control button Remove o Menu bar File gt Remove image o Context menu Remove image right click on the image in the image list o Hotkey lt Shift gt lt F2 gt Note If images you want to remove from the image list or individ ual partitions are still mounted as virtual drives the file image can not be removed A corresponding message will appear 8 3 3 Empty image list You can also remove all images from the image list There are three ways o Menu bar File gt Empty image list o Context menu Empty image list right click on the free area of the image list o Hotkey lt Ctrl gt lt Shift gt lt F2 gt 90 Miray Virtual Disk Note When the file image or file images to be removed from the image list or individual partitions thereof are still mounted as virtual drives the image list cannot be emptied A corresponding message will appear 8 3 4 Mounting an image You can mount previously added file images or individual data areas volumes as Windows drives When mounting an image it will be made available as a Win dows disk and will behave just like a physical disk When mounting an entire file image which contains sever
76. ity hologram saa ana ga agan dde hase mea Rr oda 97 9 2 3 Valid product license 0 a eee 97 9 3 IDISCAIMERS cse he IUE E E E MER A RUE Na a tees 97 94 Feedback exe Ee RE d be S Ce eed des 98 9 5 SUID PONE studuerit t S sche trends t ofer pets t ruris 98 m Chapter overview 9 1 Introduction Thank you very much for choosing HDClone We are always striving for offering you a software product which meets your requirements as well as our own high ambitions In case of having suggestions for improvement or not being satisfied with the software in certain aspects we therefore kindly ask you to communi cate the regarding criticism and suggestions to us at feedback miray de 1 1 Chapter overview 1 Introduction Offers general information about this manual and the program Particularly it contains an overview of the available editions and their abilities 2 Fields of application By supporting physical copies HDClone is suitable for many different areas of application Here you find descriptions and hints for the most common areas of application of the program 3 Supported hardware In this chapter you find a list of supported controllers and media as well as information about which aspects to consider when using certain types of controllers or media 4 Installation For using HDClone you can install it as a normal Windows program and or create a bootable medium This chapter describes how this can be done within few minu
77. ium and its state several seconds up to minutes can be needed for the recovery tri als Therefore it is recommended to always activate the option SafeRescue gt 5 8 3 General options because then handling defective sectors takes place after the copying of all intact areas has been finished The process can then be aborted if it takes too long without losing the data of the intact areas 64 Operating principles 6 3 2 Read errors During the copying process read errors can only occur on the source medium HDClone then tries to read the defective areas immediately after the termina tion of the copying process with the option SafeRescue gt 5 8 3 General op tions with the help of special data recovery strategies within a single trouble shooting run gt 5 9 8 Course of the process During the troubleshooting run the number of the indicated read errors can reduce according to the areas on the source medium which could be recovered Note Read errors that occur during the verification run are not D es counted as read errors but as verification errors gt 5 9 5 Status indi cation The indicated read errors only refers to the errors occurred during the copying process including the debug run 6 3 3 Write errors Write errors can only occur during the copying process and only on the target medium HDClone then tries to read the defective areas immediately after the termination of the copying process with the op
78. iwarepackage esses 26 4 1 3 Miray Virtual D SK iicet mn RE siie 26 4 2 Installation in Windows 27 421 HDClone Setup sisse pen Er REPE teehee gees 27 4 2 0 Boot Setup amp boot media ss 28 4 2 2 1 CD DVD writer not selectable 29 4 2 3 Bootable Windows XPCD 00 002 002000005 29 4 3 Installation with other operating systems unre 30 4 3 1 Creating a bootable floppy disk 30 4 3 2 Creating a bootable CD DVD 30 4 4 Booting from USB key aa 31 5 Program Instr ckloris ea aaa veau eA ques d Ebo a duni oA asd d cipe 32 5 1 Preliminary SteDS scene mech peer teet ee ap a a ag 32 5 2 Starting the Program ia cigs 904 ned RE Ee RA EY RA EUR RO RSS 32 5 2 1 Self booting program cene eee 32 5 2 2 Windows program ee 33 5 2 3 Command line program esses 33 DiS Program saiem a aal reine or erst teretes chow barn teak ins a ate 33 53 4 Stat sfleld desiere smi an ak DG RR RP jg a gm Ek a aun 34 532 Operating feld r nee o rre ag a wy poema p 34 DA Operations acce aaa beber eR bEDDURPULANERENPDE Sem ea 34 5 4 1 Graphical control elemenis 000 eevee 34 5 4 2 Operation with keyboard and mouse 35 5 4 2 1 Keyboard operation 35 5 4 2 2 Mouse operation esses esses 36 BD MED us sms Mera bth
79. izing and compatibility of SCSI devices o Note Since HDClone embeds original driver code of the hardware 8 manufacturers there no influence on actual compatibility The fol lowing information is based on specifications of the manufacturer 3 4 1 Utilization You can use HDClone with SCSI hard disk in the same way as with any other me dia HDClone automatically recognizes supported SCSI controllers and connect ed SCSI hard disks at program start and displays them along with other recog nized media in the respective selection lists n SCSI 23 o Note You can copy data from SCSI hard disks to other media types gt 2 Fields of application This is important for the purpose of data rescue or if there is no SCSI target medium at hand as any arbitrary medium can be used for temporarily storing the regarding data 3 4 2 Compatibility Generally HDClone supports SCSI hard disk drives As a precondition they have to be connected to a SCSI controller HDClone supports Currently HDClone supports Narrow Wide Ultra and Ultra Wide SCSI controllers from Adaptec Hint You can determine easily whether your SCSI controller is sup ported with any edition of HDClone 3 2 1 Compatibility test Connect at least one SCSI drive to the SCSI bus and start HDClone If the SCSI drive is recognized HDClone also supports the SCSI controller 3 4 8 Manufacturer information Accord
80. m a physical disk either o There are no more Windows drive letters available Windows recognizes the mounted partitions but cannot assign drive letters to them In this case free one or more of the drive letters currently in use o f there is a drive letter displayed but the drive has no content or Windows prompts to format that drive the file system might be damaged This may happen when the image was created from an inconsistent file system 8 5 Modes of operation There are three different ways to mount file images in Miray Virtual Disk o Write protected Menu item Image gt Advanced gt Mount R O o Writeable with undo option Menu bar Image gt Mount o Direct reading amp writing Menu bar Image gt Advanced gt Mount R W 8 5 1 Write protected access In this mode virtual drives can only be read In previous versions of Miray Vir tual Disk this was the only mode available In this mode no changes are made to the mounted images But this also means that no changes can be made to the file system on the virtual drive For example it is not possible to change file names or access rights in this mode 8 5 2 Read write access default This mode is the default mode when mounting file images It allows to read from and write to file images The data written will be stored separately in this mode This means that the data of the original file image remains unaltered even when writing to the virtual drive
81. m backup 02 07 2009 5 7 5 1 File image as a target When creating an image fig 14 the target of the copying process is a file image You are prompted to enter a file name into the input field in the frame on the right of the list box A file image with that name will be created on the selected partition gt 5 7 5 Se lecting a file image Additionally you may specify whether a SmartImage or a RAW image is to be created More information on the different image types is to be found in 6 8 Imaging fig 14 File image as a target Select the desired partition from the list box and enter a name for the file image To protect the file image activate Password protection 6 8 7 Password Protec 42 Program instructions tion Enter a password for the file image twice As an option you may choose Encryption to have the data in the image securely encrypted 6 8 8 Encryp tion If desired choose to create a Smartlmage 6 8 1 Logical images or a RAW image gt 6 8 3 RAW images gt 6 8 4 VMDK images Otherwise a physical image 6 8 2 Physical images will be created automatically To proceed to the next step click on Next in the lower right corner of the operating field to con firm your choice 5 7 5 2 File images as a source When restoring an image fig 15 the source of the copying process is a file image In the frame on the right of the partition list a second list
82. measured speed loss on the PCI bus was at about 40 1 7 6 5 Other controller problems Another problem is an incompatibility with certain USB storage devices caused by the USB controller Especially older USB devices do not function flawlessly in such USB controllers Use another USB controller if possible o Note In our tests this problem showed up with only one USB con troller Acer ALi M5273 and was also reproducible on other com puters and operating systems 7 7 Mapped network drives When using mapped drives in Windows Vista and Windows 7 HDClone cannot find the mapped drives in some cases The reason is that HDClone is running in administrator mode To make the established mapped drives visible anyway a small change to the Windows Registry is required HDClone Setup gt 4 2 1 HD Clone Setup will handle this autornatically if desired But you can also make the change manually as described below o Open the registry editor regedit exe o Move to the following registry key in the tree structure HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies System o Create if not existing the DWORD value EnableLinkedConnections o Set its value data to 1 and restart your computer Note To undo the changes simply delete the registry value Tl 86 Miray Virtual Disk 8 Miray Virtual Disk Some editions of HDClone contain the software Miray
83. mpression partition backup hdclone cl exe mode p2i srcvol D dstvol E dstimg backup compression on o Restoring a file image from drive E to Disk 1 hdclone cl exe mode i2d srcvol E srcimg backup dstdrv 1 o Restoring a file image from drive E to partition D defragmentation hdclone cl exe mode i2p srcvol E srcimg backup dstvol D defrag on o Copying Disks adjust partitions sizes automatically hdclone cl exe mode d2d srcdrv 1 dstdrv 2 resize o Copying Disks keep size of partition 1 resize others automatically hdclone cl exe mode d2d srcdrv 1 dstdrv 2 resize fixed o Copying Disks partitions 1 keep size 2 resize to 100 GB resize others hdclone cl exe mode d2d srcdrv 1 dstdrv 2 resize fixed 100G 9 Copying Disk adjust partition 1 automatically keep sizes of others hdclone cl exe mode d2d srcdrv 1 dstdrv 2 resize auto fixed fixed fixed Hint To find out which drive numbers are assigned to the physical drives please execute hdclone cl exe list It will print a list on the screen where you can see the available physical drives together with their assigned drive number m Load errors 77 7 Troubleshooting This paragraph describes possible problems when using HDClone and offers pro posals for solution If there should be no proposal for solution for a problem you can gladly contact our Support gt 9 5 Support 7 1 Load errors During the start of the program before HDClone is loaded it
84. n be started without the pres ence of an operating system as a self booting application from CD floppy disk or USB key 4 1 1 Bootable medium Additionally there is a setup program allow ing you to easily install HDClone in Windows on your computer gt 4 2 1 HD Clone Setup 4 1 1 Bootable medium In case you have HDClone already available on a bootable medium you can start and use the program immediately on any PC and without any preceding installation as described in chapter 5 2 Starting the program o Note It is possible that although you have HDClone on a physical medium it may not be in form of a bootable medium but rather as an installation package In this case it is also necessary to create a bootable medium at first according to the subsequently provided descrip tions gt 4 1 2 Software package 4 1 2 Software package As far as you do not have HDClone on a bootable medium already you can cre ate one by yourself The software package which you have obtained in this case contains the files needed for this purpose The following chapters describe how to create a bootable medium The required procedure can be different ac cording to the media type or operating system used The bootable medium cre ated in this way then can be used to start HDClone on any PC without any fur ther installation gt 5 2 Starting the program 4 1 3 Miray Virtual Disk Some editions of HDClone also contain the softwa
85. nal sizes oo pirer kaa pana ga en a 50 5 9 2 2 Automatic adjustment a 50 5 9 2 3 Freeadjustment a 50 5 9 3 S curity query eus ct t etant ORE E anarika 51 5 9 4 Copy animation 00 000 02 51 5 9 5 Status indiCatlor zs e eget eee 51 5 9 6 Percentage indication ru 52 BQ Progress Dat xx pasu se aik I acp REA SR QE Leb d 52 598 Co rse oF the process ies sse nero ert eate aen 52 5 9 99 Interrupting the running process 00 52 5 10 Termination of the copying process 53 5 10 11 User abOFt saa ba an a s de ere Era e d er els 53 5 10 2 Regular termination isses 53 5 10 3 Adjust media parameters aane agun ae ga ag a ae 53 5 104 Fifial Tepornt 45 iere ana kaag a daga nga pa aga Re gd 54 5 11 Closing the progra eeir aaa ida a deed weed beta E A nE 56 53 11 End dialog sisira Mad E aa kaa a baa Ngak dd peines 56 Bil 1 2 GOOd bY SENEEN co a aaa a aaa aa a hired 56 6 Operating principles 2222 sana eh terine ae dad a aa a kaa S s 57 6 1 CopyingTnodes ssi buda KA Na a AA aa NE KN ENG KG KN A 57 63 1 Preliminary remark escocia aaa ia eee tz 57 6 1 2 Physical Copy 22 ccs ae kaa a eee ee nan 57 6 L3 Logica COPY isa daga ang aa a bate tue wed 58 62 4 n Drive tode nors aa gain se agan aa E ag BB aga as 58 6 1 5 Partition to pattitioni 4 aba kak mm ee ria nis 59 6 1 6 Drive to Partition
86. nd target To specify a sector area activate the check box Sector area and enter the starting from and the ending to sector of the area These sectors are interpreted as the first and the last sector of the area i e they are included with the area o Note The sector counting starts with with O 1st sector of the medium Accordingly all further sector numbers have to be de creased by 1 too e g from 0 to 99999 defines the first 100000 sectors on the medium as an area Warning You should not conduct an area copy unless you are com pletely aware of its functioning and consequences A sector area which has not been defined with expertise may lead to data loss 6 4 2 Functioning The sector area is always subordinated to the selected medium drive or parti tion and is interpreted relatively to the starting position of the medium Instead of using the whole medium for the subsequent copying process only the de fined sector area will be used as source or target During copying the data from the first sector of the source area will be copied to the first sector of the target area and so on Compared to a normal copy the only difference is that the de fined partial area is used in the copying process instead of copying the whole drive or partition Example The values from 0 to 31 define an area of 32 sectors If the type of source or target is drive the declaration refers to the
87. ning Geometry used To boot from the medium the device geometry has to match the geometry set in BIOS Adopt partition ID Use same partition type as on the source medium Adjust partition size Set the space reserved for the target partition to the size needed for the partition copied Adjust CHS layout Use the values set under Geometry used for ad justing the MBR or the boot sector s Reset disk signature Reset unique media signature Adjust offset Adjust real partition start address in boot sector s Patch boot code Avoids boot problems on older hardware Change volume ID Create a new ID for the partition Necessary when source and target work in the same PC When the parameters and options are set as desired click on Adjust to modify the medium or click on No changes to leave the medium unchanged Note In case of a copy with several target media Enterprise Edition only the dialog appears only once The selected adjustments are then carried out for all target media 5 10 4 Final report After termination fig 28 or the abort gt fig 29 of a copying process you obtain a final report in a dialog window with the following information The copying process has been aborted The copy has not been verified completely The target medium has not been adjusted Source Drive 3 WDC WD800AAJS 00PSAO 76 319 MB Target Drive 4 SAMSUNG HDO80H 76 319 MB Sectors copied Read errors Write e
88. not assigned to any partition is displayed in white There 50 Program instructions are three options for how to handle free space on the target medium 5 9 2 1 Keep original sizes 5 9 2 2 Automatic adjustment 5 9 2 3 Free adjustment Select the desired option In case of Free adjustment make the desired changes Then click on Apply adjustments for having the selected adjustments become effective If you click on Continue without adjustment the following copying process will transfer the partitions of the source to the target medium without any changes Clicking Cancel will bring you back to the dialog page Copy data without making any changes and without starting the copying process o Note In case you want to transfer the original partition layout to the TI target medium click on Continue without adjustment Although the option Keep original sizes will keep the original partition sizes it may though alter their absolute positions on the medium by shifting them towards the beginning of the medium for a better utilization of free space 5 9 2 1 Keep original sizes The original sizes of partitions on the ERI source will be kept on the target me dium fig 21 The partitions them selves will be shifted together at the beginning of the target if possible This approach is useful since it closes gaps between partitions gaining additional space which is made available in one single block at the
89. ntation being performed during the copying process For fig 43 Defragmentation using this ability please choose the option Defragmentation fig 43 Apart from the general advantages of a defrag mentation in particular the acceleration of file accesses and the boot process HDClone offers the special advantage of performing the defragmentation pro cess without consuming significant extra time Downsizing or defragmenting can also be selected when restoring from an image if it has been created using the options Store downsizing info or Store defrag info 5 8 3 General options 72 Operating principles i Important Use defragmentation on healthy file systems only mean T ing only those file systems declared being flawless by programs like chkdsk exe Windows oc o Note When downsizing NTFS partitions HDClone may also per form a shifting of data blocks This shifting aims to reduce the file system s size in as few steps as necessary Therefore to perform a defragmentation please select the option Defragmentation explicitly even when downsizing a file system 6 10 Command line interface To integrate HDClone into automated processes or to enable it for time trig gered calls there is the additional file hdclone cl exe for calling HDClone from the Windows command line This program is destined for being called by batch and shell scripts or program links It handles user input and output
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91. ode or deactivate UltraDMA 7 4 4 2 Activate deactivate UltraDMA Multiword DMA mode will be autornatically still available which offers about a twice to four times higher speed than PIO mode o On the other hand you can also try to activate UltraDMA or to switch to a higher UltraDMA mode if the corresponding default settings in your BIOS set up are too low o Note Our tests revealed that some chipsets and hard disks do not 8 collaborate optimally This can lead to UltraDMA mode putatively correctly recognized and set in the BIOS is too high m IDE ATA SATA 81 7 4 4 BIOS settings n case of problems when using DMA please refer to the following notes The following notes refer to settings which you should possibly make in the BIOS setup of your computer if problems occur during the use of DMA Since the set tings in the BIOS setup are manufacturer and model specific these notes can only be given in a general form Refer to your BIOS manual on how exactly to make these settings and which settings are available at all You usually find the DMA settings under Integrated Peripherals or Chipset Setup in the BIOS setup Note Please perform automatic hard disk recognition in BIOS after each modification of the DMA and hard disk settings so that the modifications for the corresponding drives become effective Make sure to save the modifications via Save and Exit when leaving BIOS setup
92. ollowing syntax Oo dd if hdclone img ofz dev fqdO 4 3 2 Creating a bootable CD DVD The HDClone software package contains a so called ISO image in the file hd clone iso It can be used to create a bootable HDClone CD with any operating system using a CD writing software of your choice as far as it supports creating CDs from an ISO image Further information can be found in the manual of your CD writing software o Extract the file hdclone iso from the HDClone software package o Start your CD writing software and choose Create CD from image file or sim m Booting from USB key 31 ilar caption according to the respective CD writing software o Specify the file hdclone iso as image file o Insert a blank CD into the drive and write the CD Hint The easiest way of creating a bootable HDClone CD under Linux is using the software tool cdrecord with the following syntax cdrecord hdclone iso After having accomplished these steps you have created a bootable HDClone CD From this CD you can start HDClone directly on any PC with a bootable CD DVD drive as described in 5 2 Starting the program o Note CD DVD writing software may refuse writing an ISO image to a DVD The HDClone installation program writes DVDs without any problem Booting from a DVD created this way also works smoothly 4 4 Booting from USB key To start HDClone from a USB key the PC has to be able to boot from USB media
93. onde maces Ahan ne I sende ded ns ia 36 5 6 Selecting a copy mode lt eaaa eaaa aan 36 5 6 1 Category View 36 5 6 2 Classi VIEW Lic asa atanpa roe RIe ebbe dbz 37 5 7 Selecting data source and target sees 38 BLA Selecting 4 dllVes s szscccestezitbeisi gu ee ne fu EA 39 5 72 Selecting a Parton zum arre pepe mp ntes n 39 5 7 3 Deactivated list ntries 00000000 eee 39 m Table of Contents 5 5 54 Di veiDfOrfmatiori sisse exp IEEE ERRRINPMERAAOREMER E Sd 40 5 75 Selecting aTlle IMAGE a s ione teens 41 5 7 5 1 File image asatarget 41 5 7 5 2 FileimagesasasoWwce 42 5 16 SpeedTest o ai ad Eutr Gabe dan tae ds oc 42 Biff MultiCopyimode sissies cessere AR Bg Wa pa b kab ga DRESS 43 5 8 Selecting tlie OPTIONS sa aaa naam A meter sette 43 58 1 Merbylhg e ire ra seus eed sh os eee EARE RM RETRO a 44 58 2 Locked Options cde gang at Deben te 44 5 83 General ptos rcs verrees sp ait hak EEES eniai 45 5 8 4 Options for source and target 45 5 8 5 Advanced Options sa aan aaa nente de ai 46 50 51 Gielielal v sterii dr Ete E Bd ak pn a a sales 46 5 8 5 2 So rce and target eo anana stet ka ngaku an deo 47 5 9 COPYING dala i saa De Dre pereas A a gs pede 48 59 1 PartitionSelect ciscus opiniii edhe oad 48 5 9 2 Adjusting partitions a 49 5 9 2 1 Keep origi
94. oot image by clicking on Create ISO image in the box Media output If another CD DVD writer is available you can immediately create a CD by clicking on Burn to CD DVD Otherwise please cre ate an ISO image first After clicking on Start PE Builder creates the CD Depending on your system this may take a few minutes If you did not select Burn to CD DVD in the previous step it is necessary to write the newly created ISO image to CD with your re cording software Please note that the file has to be written to CD directly as an image Normal writing will not be sufficient in this case Instead please start your recording software and choose Create from image file or similar description depending on the recording software used Start your PC from the CD created HDClone is to be found at Go gt Programs 4 3 Installation with other operating systems 4 3 1 Creating a bootable floppy disk You can also create a bootable HDClone floppy disk without the installation pro gram with any operating system For this purpose the HDClone software pack age contains a floppy disk image in the file hdclone img You can create a bootable 3 5 1 44MB floppy disk from this image with any appropriate disk im aging program After having created a bootable floppy disk you can start HD Clone on any PC as described in chapter 5 2 Starting the program Hint Under UNIX and Linux you may use the tool dd which is avail Q able on these systems with the f
95. operation system installation to a larger drive 2 1 Upgrading hard disks amp migrating an OS o Rescue of entire hard disks 2 2 Data rescue o Backup and restore of entire drives or operating system installations 2 3 In stallation backup o Multiple installations 2 5 1 Duplicating system installations o Copying proprietary file systems and data formats onto another drive gt 2 6 Proprietary hard disk formats o Copy for forensic analysis and evaluation 2 7 Forensic data securing m Copying modes 59 6 1 5 Partition to partition This copying mode functions similarly to the above described mode gt 6 1 4 Drive to drive However in this case not the y G N A whole hard disk is copied but only the content of an individual partition is copied This copy is executed sector by sector too Relatively a the beginning of the re spective partition the individual sectors are also moved to the same address However due to the principle and in contrast to the drive to drive mode the individual sectors are not at the same absolute address in relation to the com plete hard disk Perhaps such a copy is therefore not directly usable but only after it has been copied back 2 3 Installation backup or adapted to the changed absolute position on the hard disk 5 10 3 Adjust media parameters fig 33 Partition to partition The partition to partition copy mode is useful for the followin
96. or transmitted afterwards The latter may be useful for restoring the medium at another location without having to transfer a physical medium This makes it easier faster and more secure 6 8 3 RAW images RAW images are also a kind of physical images They contain the same data as physical images HDClone just uses a special file format for physical images which supports HDClone s special modes e g SafeRescue optimally In contrast RAW images contain the data of a medium in the same linear order as they are stored on the medium This makes it easier to process image files with third party programs Hint RAW images are especially suitable for using them for data streaming or with virtual machines A RAW image can be used like a normal virtual drive with many virtual machines HDClone includes support of VMware virtual machines 6 8 4 VMDK images 6 8 4 VMDK images You can use file images created with HDClone to include them directly into a virtual machine of the VMware virtualization software For this purpose VMware requires a VMDK file HDClone will add this file automatically when creating a RAW image gt 6 8 3 RAW images When opening the regarding HDClone file m Imaging 69 image with VMware you will be displayed a VMDK file of the same name You then can select and use it The VMDK files HDClone creates comply with HW version 4 and are specified to be used with the following versions of VMware o VMwa
97. ore defragmentation information when creating a file image 5 8 3 General options NTFS FAT only Store information for downsizing when creating file images 5 8 3 General options NTFS FAT ext with copy and image restore only Resizing partitions automatically or manually when copying or restoring from a file image 5 9 2 Adjust ing partitions excluding individual partitions b 6 7 PartitionSelect Copy and create image only Numbers of the parti tions to be excluded from the copy or not stored if an image is created Numbering starts with 1 the parti tion order equals the order listed by the command hdclone cl exe list Lists all drives and partitions recognized as well as their internal numbering 6 10 3 Return values The command line version CLI of HDClone returns result values in the environ ment variable ERRORLEVEL This allows to evaluate and to react to the copying result automatically for example by using batch files The return values are de fined as follows m Command line interface 75 Option Meaning 0 Copying process finished successfully with no errors of any kind or the program was called using parameters help or list 1 Errors in call missing duplicate invalid parameters 2 Invalid license or license expired 3 At least one resize parameter gt 6 10 2 Optional pa rameters is invalid does not match the target size or contains invalid characters 4 Could not acc
98. ow then appears gt fig 25 and Continue copying Abort copying fig 26 where you have the choice to either continue the process click on fig 25 Abort dialog copying process Continue copying or Continue veri fying or to abort it completely click on Abort copying or Abort verifying gt 5 10 1 User abort As long as you select neither option the current copying process remains interrupted m Termination of the copying process 53 5 10 Termination of the copying process 5 10 1 User abort If you interrupt a running copying pro eR cess or verification run by clicking You can abort the verifying process irrevocably Stop gt 5 9 9 Interrupting the run n c mL M ning process you can definitively abort the process in the dialog win dow which then appears gt fig 25 and fig 26 by clicking Abort copy ing or Abort verifying You then obtain a final report 5 10 4 Final report upon the prematurely terminated process o Note Unlike an aborted copying run an aborted verification run has no influence on the copied data The copy itself is already finished at that point of time fig 26 Abort dialog verification run 5 10 2 Regular termination After up to three runs gt 5 9 8 Course of the process without a premature abort the copying process is regularly ended You then obtain a final report upon the complete copying process in a dialog window 5 10 4 Final report
99. p www nu2 nu pebuild pa er The downloaded package allows jg eatis ndene nsslin es zi you to create a specially configured pssseseetesiriies from this drectory A Windows XP system which can De ouput cierooramnelpebuiderai ose started right off a CD A plug in is used to integrate HDClone into the PE sys ie tem A corresponding plug in is to be mawan al found at http www miray de public e a support HDClone BartPE Plugin en zip Please install PE Builder on your system ma Bud E and unpack the plug in to the folder pebuilder3110a plugin This location fig 5 PE Builder configuration dialog then should contain the new folder HDClone Now copy hdclone exe from the installation package to pebuil der3110a plugin HDClone flles In case the mass storage devices and controller on your target system will require special drivers please copy the driver files to pebuilder3 1 10a drivers SCSIAdapter Then start pebuilder exe from the folder pebuilder3110a After few seconds a dialog window appears gt fig 5 Please enter the path to the Windows XP instal 30 Installation lation files in the input field on top They are to be found on your Windows XP installation CD Hence this field usually contains the drive letter of your CD DVD drive except you have copied the installation files to another location You can now choose a name and a location for the b
100. pared to single cop ies In case of optimal connected media 6 5 3 Different media speed in creases straight proportional with the number of target media For example a fourfold copy yields about four times the data throughput of a single copy 6 5 3 Different media Regarding mass copying HDClone offers the possibility to connect all types of supported drives in arbitrary combinations But there may be huge differences in performance according to which drives are used and how they are connected For maximum speed only IDE SATA and SCSI drives ought to be used And IDE drives should always be configured as master 6 6 SmartCopy 6 6 1 Mode of operation SmartCopy mode creates logical 1 1 copies It allows HDClone to save a huge amount of the time needed for creating a physical 1 1 copy depending on how much data is stored on the medium SmartCopy mode creates a bitwise Copy as well but in contrast to a physical 1 1 copy it only refers to the areas marked as used on the medium For many cases this mode is more suitable since it yields the same result in less time Note Since it is only a copy you can always try SmartCopy mode 8 first If it turns out not to be sufficient for your individual case you can still create a physical 1 1 copy m Imaging 67 use it in exceptional cases for gt 2 7 Forensic data securing i e only if you are definitely sure that it is sufficient for the use
101. pened and Hint Since data encryption requires a certain amount of processing Q power encryption will usually increase the duration for creating and restoring file images significantly So please select Data Encryption only if it is required Otherwise the password protection mechanism may also be sufficient The latter will not increase the duration of the process 6 8 9 Storing Images on CD DVD File images can also be archived on CD or DVD HDClone can restore these file images directly For this purpose please insert the CD DVD into the drive at best before starting HDClone or when the first screen appears Choose the copying mode Image to Drive or Image to Partition and click on next When selecting the source image the CD DVD drive will appear in the list and you can choose an image from there as the source images Note When writing an HDClone image to CD or DVD it is required o i to use an ISO file system Please consider the manual of your CD writing software in this case The CD DVD media has to contain the entire image So called spanning of the file image is not yet supported by HDClone But you can choose a file block size matching the capacity of the target medium optimally 5 8 4 Options for source and target 6 9 Defragmentation For NTFS file systems HDClone offers on the Defragmentation dialog page Options gt 5 8 Selecting the op kg Wt Ji tions to choose a defragme
102. pied sectors Read errors Total number of copied sectors Total number of read errors occurred during the copying process Read errors which occur during the verification run are exclusively counted as verification errors Total number of write errors occurred during the copying process Write errors which occur during the verification run are exclusively counted as verification errors Write errors Field Meaning Verification errors Total number of the errors occurred during the verifica tion run This includes write and read errors as well as non identical data during the comparison This stays zero verification is not enabled Runtime Time required for the whole process i e copying process and verification run if executed You can start another copying process by clicking Another copy or end the program by clicking Quit HDClone gt 5 11 2 Good bye screen 5 11 Closing the program 5 11 1 End dialog You can end HDClone at any time Possibly open dialog windows have to be closed before Click then the end symbol X in the upper right corner of the operating field gt fig 6 or press lt Esc gt The end dialog appears E gt fig 30 where you can quit HD Clone by clicking Yes and return to the program by clicking No Furthermore you can cancel HDClone directly after a terminated copying process 5 10 4 Final report x Quit program A Do you want to quit HDClone now
103. r current and updated software by looking on your computer on the hardware installation CD oF on the Windows Update Web ste with your permission Read our privacy policy Can Windows connect to Windows Update to search for software O Yes this time only Yes now and every time connect a device O No not this time Click Next to continue fig 3 Windows dialog Hardware Wizard Note Depending on the kind of HDClone package you have using TL the setup is not absolutely necessary If you already have HDClone ready on a medium you may additionally setup exe to install HD Clone on Windows The same applies for a software package in the ZIP file format When downloading HDClone via the Internet the entire program package will be contained in the setup exe file 4 2 2 Boot Setup amp boot media When starting the Boot Setup program the main window appears fig 4 o If you want to create a bootable floppy choose the drive at Floppy drive and click on Create floppy o To create a bootable CD DVD choose the drive at CD DVD writer and click on Create CD DVD o To create a bootable USB key choose the desired drive at USB me dium and click on Make bootable Follow the instructions and wait until the installation program reports suc cessful creation of the bootable medi um Then click on Exit Afterwards please proceed with chapter 5 Pro gram instruc
104. re Miray Virtual Disk gt 8 Miray Virtual Disk an application to mount file images as virtual Windows drives Miray Virtual Disk will be installed automatically during HDClone setup In case you do not want to have Miray Virtual Disk installed please deselect it in the first installation screen fig 1 m Installation in Windows 27 4 2 Installation in Windows The HDClone software package Con t miey roceneseup tains a setup program setup exe al PTT ef ray ocne yaen toast lowing you to install HDClone directly on Windows into a program folder This pesce eec eU Estee us sm qe pes will by choice of the user also cre Select components to install ate an Start menu folder as well as links E San Men n on your desktop and in the Quickstart Einer sk bar 4 2 1 HDClone Setup Space required 40 1MB The HDClone software package also contains an installation program for cre Next gt ema ating a bootable floppy disk or CD DVD with only few mouse clicks gt 4 2 2 Boot Setup amp boot media To use the boot setup program please run setup exe first Then start All Programs gt HDClone gt Create bootable me dium in the Windows Start menu o Note Alternatively in case you have a software package in the ZIP file format you may extract all files to an empty folder Then exe cute the file setup exe from there fig 1 HDClone setup start screen 4 2
105. re Player starting from version 1 x o VMware Workstation starting from version 5 x o VMware Server starting from version 1 x o VMware ESXi starting from version 3 Hint Currently HDClone creates VMDK files only in combination with RAW images If you have another type of image available and want to create a VMDK image out of it you can use the Miray Vir tual Disk software 8 Miray Virtual Disk to achieve this Mount the existing image as a virtual drive and use HDClone to create a RAW image of this vir tual drive The RAW image then will contain the VMDK file to be used direct ly with VMware as described above 6 8 5 Mode of operation When choosing a copying mode 5 6 Selecting a copy mode you can specify Image as source restore image or target create image You can create physical images of any media supported by HDClone For creating logical imag es it is required just as for logical copies that the source medium is formatted with FAT NTFS ext2 or ext3 With HDClone S you can use FAT32 or NTFS for matted media for reading and writing image files HDClone W also supports net work drives 6 8 6 Compressed Images When creating a file image the dialog page Compression Options gt 5 8 Selecting the options offers Teele re you to create a compressed image Please ditional tir choose the option Compression to have Normal compre HDClone compress the file image You will QuickCompre t
106. re disks e g hard disks The lower row refers to copying modes for individual partitions If you select a copying mode by clicking with your mouse it will be displayed high lighted If you want to use the select ed copying mode click on next A fig 9 Selecting copying mode categories detailed description of the copying modes their operation and impact can be found in 6 Operating principles 5 6 2 Classic view The classic view gt fig 10 offers you a more functional selection of the available copying modes You have eight options altogether This is two more than with the category view since the classic view also allows for choosing 2 1 1 Unused disk space and gt 6 1 7 Partition to drive Accord ing to your choice a physical copy a logical copy or an image file will be created or restored The following ta ble provides a short overview on the available options You find a detailed Selecting a copy mode 37 fig 10 Selecting copying mode classic description of the copy modes and how they work in 6 Operating principles Drive to drive Physical 1 1 copy of an entire drive gt 6 1 4 Drive to drive Partition to partition Physical 1 1 copy of an individual partition gt 6 1 5 Partition to partition Drive to partition Creates a backup of an entire drive gt 6 1 6 Drive to Partition Partition to drive Restores the backup of an entire drive gt 6 1 7 Partition to drive
107. recognized drives and partitions are shown in the selec tion list The partitions belonging to a certain drive are listed below it in an indented form The drives themselves cannot be selected The frame with the details on the right side of the se lection list shows details concerning the drive on which the currently se lected partition is located fig 12 Selecting a partition Select the desired partition and con firm your selection by pressing Next in the lower right corner of the operating field and move to the next step 5 7 3 Deactivated list entries There are four cases in which entries in the selection list for source or target are deactivated and therefore cannot be selected o In the selection dialog for a source or target partition the list entries for the corresponding hard disks are always deactivated because a partition but not a hard disk is to be selected o Since source and target must not overlap the already selected source drive or 40 Program instructions the drive that contains the source partitions is deactivated when selecting a target drive o When selecting a target partition the already selected source partition or all partitions of the source drive are deactivated o If HDClone recognizes drives but the edition used does not support them these drives and the partitions on them are also deactivated In order to use HDClone for these drives you need a higher edition For further informa
108. rge to small If the source is bigger than the target HDClone copies only the data which also fits onto the target This data is copied from the beginning of the source to the beginning of the target medium The data which is larger than the target is not copied and is missing on the target Generally such a copy can only restrictedly be used because possibly necessary data can be missing However if you make sure before copying e g by defragmentation that all valid or necessary data is in the front part of the source medium and that this area is not larger than the target medium a copy onto a smaller target medium can also be successfully used This also applies if you have copied a smaller source onto a larger target gt 6 2 2 Small to large and if you copy back the unchanged data onto the original medium or onto a target of the corresponding size 6 3 Automatic troubleshooting In case of occurring errors HDClone tries to troubleshoot them the best possible If this is not possible the errors will be mentioned in a corresponding error statis tic The following chapters give you more detailed information on the trouble shooting and error statistic in HDClone 6 3 1 Intensive reading writing In case of read or write errors HDClone uses different strategies in order to still be able to read or write this data if possible The time used for defective areas depends to a large extent on the respective medium According to the med
109. rive at all is connected at the same IDE channel as master Normally HDClone can handle that too Note If an SATA hard disk is not recognized this can also be due to the used SATA controller 3 3 2 SATA SATA II controllers 7 4 2 IDE controller not found There are the following three reasons why HDClone has not automatically rec ognized an IDE controller o The IDE controller channel is deactivated e g on an onboard IDE controller Activate the IDE controller channel via the BIOS setup o Standard IDE controllers ISA are not taken into account if PCI IDE controllers are available Connect the respective hard disk to a PCI IDE controller in this case or deactivate the PCI IDE controller or controllers o The used controller does not correspond to the PCI IDE standard Although most controllers support this standardized programming interface there are some controllers which have only a proprietary programming interface More detailed information can be found in gt 3 3 1 IDE ATA controllers Connect the corresponding drives to another controller PCI IDE controller 80 Troubleshooting 7 4 3 Problems with DMA The following principal problems can occur with Ultra DMA o The achieved speed is too slow despite DMA Please consider that the achiev able speed gt 3 3 5 Speed depends on many factors and that this is not ab solutely due to a problem with DMA o DMA mode is not available When selec
110. rogram window 8 3 8 Close program window You can close the program window of Miray Virtual Disk at any time The appli cation will though stay active in the background There are two ways to close the window o Menu bar File gt Close window o Hotkey Ctrl W 8 3 9 Quit program To quit Miray Virtual Disk completely there are three ways o Menu bar File gt Quit Miray Virtual Disk o Tray context menu Quit Miray Virtual Disk right click on the Tray icon o Hotkey Ctrl O Note When quitting Miray Virtual Disk all active virtual drives will 8 be unmounted after a corresponding dialog has been confirmed They will be unavailable until next program startup m Modes of operation 93 8 4 Drive not visible If there are no drive letters or less drive letters than partitions displayed after mounting an image there may be several reasons o Windows drive recognition of one or more virtual drives has been delayed In this case they have a drive letter assigned but Miray Virtual Disk does not display it yet Press the F5 key or select the menu item Image gt Refresh list from the main menu to update the drive letters displayed Afterward all drive letters assigned should be visible o One or more partitions contain file systems Windows is unable to use e g Linux file systems In this case the behavior is normal since Windows is not able to use these file systems fro
111. rrors Verification errors Elapsed Data copied _Another copy Quit HDClone Details fig 28 Final report after a successful copying and verification run Termination of the copying process 55 A complete copy has been created The copy has been verified The target medium has been adjusted manually Source Drive 3 WDC WD80DAAJS 00PSAO 76 319 MB Target Drive 4 SAMSUNG HDOBDHI 76 319 MB Sectors copied 6 222 365 Read errors Write errors Verification errors Elapsed Data copied _Another copy Quit HDClone Details fig 29 Final report after the abort of the copying run o A complete copy has been created In case the copying process has been finished without an abort even if the verification run has been aborted o The copying process has been aborted In case the copying run has been aborted before its regular termination o The copy has not been verified In case no verification run has been execut ed after the copying process or in case the copying process has been prema turely aborted o The copy has been only partly verified In case the verification run has been aborted prematurely o The copy has been verified In case the verification has been terminated without an abort Furthermore the final report contains the following information Field Meaning Source Source drive partition of the copying process Target Target drive partition of the copying process Co
112. rt Same functions as 8 3 7 Autostart o Add image Same functions as 8 3 1 Adding an image o Open program window Opens the program window or brings it to the front o Quit Miray Virtual Disk Same functions as 8 3 9 Quit program Hint If you want to open the program window double click the Tray icon UO o Note If the Tray icon is not visible Miray Virtual Disk is not active and there are no virtual drives available 8 3 Operation You can operate Miray Virtual Disk using the menu bar on the top of the win dow the control buttons on the bottom of the window or the context menu gt 8 2 1 Program window The context menu opens by right clicking on entries or on the free area of the image list m Operation 89 8 3 1 Adding an image At first you can add a file image to the image list of the program window There are five ways to achieve this o Control button Add o Menu bar File gt Add image o Context menu Add image right click on the free area of the image list o Tray context menu Add image right click on the Tray icon o Hotkey F2 o Drag and drop from any Explorer window The image list also displays information on the data areas partitions and file sys tems of each file image in the list fig 39 Note Depending on the version of the program you will be allowed o A to add one or more images When you quit the program Miray V
113. s ashareatemary E Write cache E write cache 5 5 H Animation W Multisector PIO W Multisector PIO It opens a dialog with more option WI HotCopy Livelmage W Recovery via PIO Ml Recovery via PIO D Avoid exclusive read access Wl Cooling phase IM Cooling phase gt fig 17 The separation into differ ent columns is the same as on the dia log page Options fig 17 Advanced options Wi copy swap files 5 8 5 1 General These options refer to the general features of a copying run Option Meaning FastCopy Special copy algorithm Can increase the regular copy speed up to the double SafeRescue Special algorithm for data recovery Tries to recover as large areas on the drive as possible Can also stay turned on for normal copies CachedMemory Use fast intermediate memory Selecting the options 47 Option Meaning SharedMemory Use fast data transfers Animation Switch off copy animation HotCopy HDClone W only Allows or denies HDClone access to Livelmage the Windows shadow copy mechanism If this option is deselected HDClone is not able to create copies or file images of the system volume or of volumes which are used by other programs at the same time Avoid exclusive read HDClone W only Usually HDClone when running on access Copy swap files Windows at first tries to reserve the source drive for ex clusive access This is the most reliable way for creating an identical copy but it may interfere
114. s word protection gt 5 7 5 1 File image as a target HDClone will not restore a file image that is password protected unless the correct password is specified It is also not possible to open or mount a password protected file image with Miray Virtual Disk 8 Miray Virtual Disk without specifying the correct password first important The password protection mechanism is a simple but fast access protection of the file image HDClone and Miray Virtual Disk will deny any access to the image file without the correct pass word For secure protection of the file image you will have to select the Data Encryption option gt 5 7 5 1 File image as a target in addition 6 8 8 Encryption f you select the Data Encryption option when creating a file image 5 7 5 1 File image as a target the data in the image will be encrypted HDClone uses a 128 bit AES encryption for this purpose The image data then cannot be read without the specified password neither with HDClone or Miray Virtual Disk 8 Miray Virtual Disk not with other software tools Important Since the data encryption used in HDClone is a secure method without a displacement password image data created with encryption will be definitely irrecoverable if the password gets lost OE m Defragmentation 71 mounted as virtual drives with Miray Virtual Disk Note Currently encrypted file images cannot be o
115. s to be configured correspondingly 3 3 2 SATA SATA II controllers Hard disks gt 2048 GB HDClone supports hard disks above 2048 GB 2 Terabytes from the Professional Edition on SCSI hard disks Have to be connected to one of the SCSI host adapters supported by HDClone gt 3 4 SCSI Copying modes You find further information regarding the different modes in chapter gt 6 Operating principles Drive copy Allows to make a copy of entire drives Partition copy Allows to make a copy of single partitions SmartCopy Creates a logical 1 1 copy usually faster by a multiple 6 6 SmartCopy MultiCopy Mass copying to up to 4 8 16 targets at a time multiplying transfer ratio ac cording to the Enterprise Edition used 4x 8x 16x gt 6 5 Mass copy MultiCopy mode Special modes Increased copying speed FastCopy data integrity and safety verifica tion SafeRescue use within Windows at runtime HotCopy Livelmage Further informa tion to be found in chapter 5 8 Selecting the options Copying speed Due to technical differences between the individual editions there is an upper limit for the actually achievable copy speed of each edition gt 100 MB sec Up to 133 MB sec using Ultra DMA 6 up to 300 MB sec using SATA II 1000 MB sec Mass copying to up to 16 targets at a time Virtual volumes TrueSpeed Use of RAW images at almost hardware speed License scope See also chapter 9 1 Terms of l
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117. self a message and a progress bar will appear on the boot screen In case of an error one of the fol lowing error codes will be indicated here 7 1 1 Error 5002 and Disk error This error will be displayed if the boot medium is not readable when booting the program The error is reported by the BIOS of the computer and points to a de fective data carrier or a problem with the used boot drive In many cases in par ticular when booting from a floppy disk an incompatibility between drive and data carrier is the cause Principally this problem can be fixed Please try the fol lowing steps at best in the indicated order o Try again to boot the program perhaps with without cold start o Create once again a bootable disk 4 Installation o Floppy disk format the Floppy disk no quick format before creating a new one o Floppy disk Use another floppy disk o Use if possible another boot drive Note If you didn t receive HDClone as an installation package but on a bootable disk and if a disk shows this problems also after mul tiple trials on different devices please contact our Support 9 5 Support and indicate your license number 7 1 2 Other errors f other errors in the form of number should occur when loading the program please contact our Support gt 9 5 Support 78 Troubleshooting 7 2 Keyboard and mouse HDClone supports keyboards and mice with PS 2 standard or
118. sp the securest values for the SCSI bus e g transmission in the narrow mode of a wide controller 7 5 5 Minimum configuration of the systems Try to connect the SCSI hard disks used in the system in a different way espe cially if you use several SCSI controllers Proceed as follows if possible deacti vate all SCSI controllers except one This controller should have one SCSI chan nel only if possible and be part of the controllers listed in 3 4 3 Manufacturer information Connect then the needed drive or drives only Apart from defective drives this strategy mostly allowed us to find a functioning configuration during our tests to execute the planned job 7 6 USB Despite the vast support of USB controllers and storage devices gt 3 5 USB there are some cases where these controllers and devices do not function as expected The following subchapters provide you with hints and solutions 7 6 1 Storage device not recognized Mostly there are four possible reasons why a USB storage device supported by HDClone 3 1 Overview is not recognized o The USB storage device has been connected too late or exchanged after wards USB storage devices should be connected to the computer before starting HDClone 5 1 Preliminary steps o The USB storage device is not directly connected to the USB controller but via a hub e g at the monitor Always connect the USB devices you wish to use with HDClone directly to the USB con
119. t wise exact copy apart from possibly occurred defects of the source hard disk of the original hard disk 2 9 HotCopy amp Livelmage HDClone supports creating copies or image files of a Windows drive during Win dows is working even of the Windows system partition itself To use this feature it is not necessary to take certain steps When using HDClone W the appropri ate mechanisms for using HotCopy and Livelmage will be activated automati cally 18 Supported hardware 3 Supported hardware This section contains detailed information about the hardware and hardware standards supported by HDClone Furthermore there are special references to be found regarding the usage of certain device types 3 1 Overview Subsequent you find a listing of the hardware requirements concerning the hardware used to run HDClone as well as additionally supported devices Note The devices listed below represents the entire spectrum of hardware supported by HDClone Which of them can be used with a certain edition is listed in 1 4 Edition overview 3 1 1 Hardware requirements o PC 80586 or higher 500 MHz 128 MB RAM VGA optimal VESA support o Keyboard amp mouse PS 2 or USB o Bootable floppy or CD drive or bootable USB medium 3 1 2 Supported media o Under Windows HDClone W any mass storage media supported by Windows o DE ATA hard disks CompactFlash via IDE o SATA hard disks internal amp external
120. te errors Data rate Average data rate which has been attained up to this point of time The indicated value refers to the amount of copied data The actual throughput is twice as high x MB copying x MB reading x MB writing Verification errors This indicator is only used if the Verifying option is on 5 9 6 Percentage indication The percentage indicator fig 8 is located below the copy animation show ing the progress of the current run gt 5 9 8 Course of the process in percent 5 9 7 Progress bar The progress bar fig 8 below the percentage indication visualizes the prog ress of the current run Which run gt 5 9 8 Course of the process is currently processed is shown on the left above the progress bar 5 9 8 Course of the process The whole process consists of up to three runs the copying process itself an op tional debug run option SafeRescue active 5 8 3 General options and an optional verification run option Verifying active 5 8 3 General options In this manual the designation copying process includes the optional debug run be cause it belongs to the copying process even if it is executed afterwards 5 9 9 Interrupting the running process You can interrupt the running copying Sait process or the verification run at any time by clicking Stop A dialog win You can abort the copying process irrevocably The target medium will not contain a complete copy d
121. tes using the installation package 5 Program instructions This chapter contains the actual manual for operating HDClone It is a step by step description of how to operate the program for cre ating a copy with HDClone 6 Operating principles Here you find useful descriptions and hints for gaining optimal performance when using HDClone with different types of media as each media type can have its very own characteristics 7 Troubleshooting In case you encounter any problems when using HDClone you find detailed descriptions and support here By means of these information you will be able to solve or bypass occurring problems in most cases 8 Miray Virtual Disk The HDClone software package includes the Miray Virtual Disk application With this software you can mount file images as virtual drives 9 Miscellaneous In the last chapter you find miscellaneous information particu larly regarding our support and HDClone licensing terms 10 Introduction 1 2 Character conventions In this manual angle brackets and gt and italic type are used to depict a key on the keyboard e g Esc for the escape key or Return for the return key Some keys are represented by a corresponding symbol e g t for the up key Visual controls on the screen particularly buttons are represented by brackets T and 1 and semi bold type e g next back 1 3 Features HDClone lets you make physical and logical 1 1 copies clon
122. ting the options gt 5 8 4 Options for source and target the option DMA is deactivated and locked in this case o Read write or verification errors occur when using DMA In all cases the problems can be due to the same reasons When having prob lems with DMA you can principally use PIO mode at any time Deactivate the option DMA of the concerned drive when selecting the options 5 8 4 Op tions for source and target Since PIO mode is usually much slower than DMA we recommend to try first of all the following hints and help instructions to pos sibly be able to use the DMA mode Please consider the notes in the subchapter gt 7 4 4 BIOS settings o Check if the concerned drive really supports DMA Some older drives and es pecially older CompactFlash media do not support DMA o Make sure that from Ultra DMA Mode 3 on an 80 wire data cable is used to connect the drive s o If two drives are connected via the same cable the DMA mode of the slower drive is also used for the faster drive Remove the slower drive temporarily if possible or connect the drives via separate channels or cables o Try both connections of the data cable center connection and connection at the end in case of a single connected drive to eliminate possible problems with damping center connection and reflection connection at the end o Switch the used UltraDMA mode to a lower value in the BIOS setup 7 4 4 1 Switch to a lower higher UltraDMA m
123. tion on the supported drives and the capacities of the different editions of HD Clone please consult chapter 1 4 Edition overview or the HDClone website at http www hdclone com but not supported by your edition 1 4 Edition overview activate the checkbox All drives selectable below the details Then you can also select these drives to show the corresponding details You can see under the point Supported from which edition on the respective drive is supported O Hint To see the details of drives which are recognized by HDClone 5 7 4 Drive information On the right side of the selection list for the source drive source partition resp the target drive target partition you find a frame containing details on the cur rently selected drive When selecting a partition the data of the corresponding drive is shown here The following information is available Field Description Controller Type IDE SCSI and number 0 15 of the controller Channel De Channel used by the drive primary secondary and vice Connection of the drive master slave resp 0 15 LUN Logical number of the drive 0 255 Name Name of the device read from the internal drive data Serial number Device serial number read from the internal drive data Manufacturer Name of the manufacturer read from the internal drive data Firmware Version of the firmware read from the internal drive data Supported Drive type supported by the edition used
124. tion SafeRescue 5 8 3 Gen eral options with the help of special data recovery strategies within a proper troubleshooting run gt 5 9 8 Course of the process During the troubleshooting run the number of the indicated write errors can decrease according to the ar eas on the target medium which could be recovered 6 3 4 Verification errors When the option Verifying 5 8 1 Verifying is activated HDClone executes a verification run gt 5 9 8 Course of the process after the copying process A verification error is counted if the data of two sectors on source and target do not correspond Furthermore read errors which occur during the verification run in one or both of the areas to be compared are also counted as verification er rors Therefore the number of verification errors gives you absolute information on how exactly source and target correspond to each other after the copying process In case of an error free copying process HDClone should not report any verification errors and signalize a 10096 conformity of source and target 6 4 Area copy In case of an area copy the source or target medium or both is not used as a whole Only a user defined partial area of the selected medium drive or parti tion is used for the copy E Mass copy MultiCopy mode 65 6 4 1 Usage The dialog page Options provides the possibility to specify an exactly definable sector area for source and target 5 8 4 Options for source a
125. tions HDClone Boot Setup Professional Edition Progress Status Select a destination drive below Floppy drive Drive A Create Floppy r CD DVD writer Drive D USB medium Drive E p Make bootable fig 4 HDClone boot setup m Installation in Windows 29 Note When creating a CD DVD please always use a new empty 8 writeable CD DVD Otherwise there may be problems when start ing HDClone 4 2 2 1 CD DVD writer not selectable In few cases no drive is offered for selection at CD DVD writer although a CD DVD writer is available on the system Usually this results from already installed software for the CD DVD writer e g drivers for direct access to the CD DVD writer with Windows Explorer It reserves the drive in a way that the installation program cannot access it If possible deactivate or uninstall the CD DVD writer software Or create a bootable CD DVD from that ISO image which is also con tained in the software package 4 3 2 Creating a bootable CD DVD 4 2 3 Bootable Windows XP CD When using HDClone with storage devices or controllers which require special Windows drivers it has to be used directly on Windows If there is no Windows installation available you can create a bootable Windows XP CD which includes the drivers needed It just requires PE Builder and a Windows XP installation CD Please download PE Builder from the E Internet at htt
126. tly higher performance the target medi um might be a drive with a deviant internal block size In this case try to use the automatic alignment option gt 5 8 4 Options for source and target 7 3 2 Read write and verification errors f HDClone reports errors these are usually defective areas on the respective medium However general problems with the hardware can possibly also cause putative read and write errors This is mostly noticeable by a very high number of displayed errors First of all try to fix the problem via the help instructions for the respective hardware types IDE SCSI USB because the causes are usually found there If the problems cannot be fixed this way either deactivate step by step the following options at best in the indicated order m IDE ATA SATA 79 o CachedMemory o Read cache and write cache o FastCopy o DMA o SharedMemory If the problem does not occur any more after having deactivated a certain op tion the previously deactivated options can be reactivated as a test 7 4 IDE ATA SATA 7 4 1 Hard disk not recognized If HDClone does not recognize a hard disk there can be several reasons Perhaps the controller which the disk is connected to has not been found 7 4 2 IDE controller not found A further possible reason can be a non standardly con nected hard disk This is for example the case if a hard disk is configured as slave and if a CD DVD drive or no d
127. troller or to the computer o The used device is no standard conform USB mass storage device and does there fore not belong to the supported devices 3 5 1 Mass Storage Class 84 Troubleshooting o The USB storage device is defective or works faultily You should then test its functionality by using it with another PC or another operating system Note If no USB storage device is recognized and if the above men tioned possibilities are excluded the corresponding USB controller has probably not been recognized gt 7 6 3 Controller not found 7 6 2 Other device problems Some devices especially USB sticks can show malfunctions in case of tempera ture rise or continuous operation i e in case of continuous reading or writing big amounts of data With HDClone these problems manifest in read or write errors on the respective USB storage device which do not always occur at the same location but after a certain operating time Sometimes these hardware problems also lead to very long breaks during the copying process which can be up to several minutes When selecting the options gt 5 8 3 General options try to deactivate the option FastCopy in this case Only if the problem persists activate additionally the option Cooling off break for the concerned device Thus the copying process takes a bit longer but usually the data transfer works better Note The described problems are mostly due to defic
128. tvol drvletter o Creating a file image of an entire drive hdclone cl exe mode d2i srcdrv number dstvol drvletter dstimg flename o Creating a file image of a single partition hdclone cl exe mode p2i srcvol drvletter dstvol drvletter dstimg filename Restoring a file image to an entire drive hdclone cl exe mode i2d srcvol drvletter srcimg filename dstdrv number o Restoring a file image to a single partition hdclone cl exe mode i2p srcvol drvletter srcimg filename dstvol drvletter Note When using Enterprise Edition with more than one target the calling syntax is extended as follows the parameter combinations dstdrv number drive dstvol drvletter partition volume or dstvol drvletter dstimg filename file image have to be specified itera tively one for each copying target Providing the parameters described above is mandatory when calling hdclone cl exe If one of the parameters is not provided or an invalid value is assigned the call will be canceled with an error message o Note The copying modes Drive to Partition and Partition to Drive are not available in the command line version Please use the func tions for creating and restoring drive images instead 6 10 2 Optional parameters There is a number of further optional parameters allowing you to enable or dis able certain features of HDClone for the copying process They
129. ude certain partitions not required to be copied for example a recov ery partition that needs not to be included in a backup PartitionSelect can also be used to reduce the amount of free space required on the target 6 8 Imaging HDClone is also capable of creating file images of a medium An image contains the same data as a copy When an image has been restored to another medium the result is the same as if it had been copied directly from the source medium 68 Operating principles Information Images offer many advantages if the data of a certain medium has rather to be stored than copied directly Since images are normal files stored in folders managing them is a lot easier Im ages also can be transmitted or exchanged e g on optical discs or via net work and the Internet 6 8 1 Logical images Logical images store exactly like logical 1 1 copies only those areas of a me dium that contain valid data Therefore a logical image requires much less disk space than a physical image in most cases This implies that creating logical im ages also requires much less time This makes them the perfect choice for creat ing backups or for managing several system installations 6 8 2 Physical images Physical images store exactly like physical 1 1 copies all areas of the medium In contrast to a pure copy physical images store the data in a file which can be archived e g as a 1 1 emergency backup
130. uring data it may be unclear which areas of the TI medium are actually used Especially regarding hidden or deleted data it is recommended to create a copy of the entire medium to a target medium of the same or larger size For the same reason the SmartCo py mode gt 6 6 SmartCopy should not be used for this type of application 2 8 Image files n HDClone working with physical and logical images follows the same basic logic as physical and logical copies which are performed directly from medium to medium mage files often offer advantages over direct copies Image files allow for o Simple storing and managing in your file system m HotCopy amp Livelmage 17 o Archiving within any existing infrastructure o Exchanging media contents using arbitrary storage media o Distributing without physical media via networks and the Internet o Use with virtual machines 6 8 4 VMDK images Example A defective hard disk has to be rescued to another medium using HDClone Afterwards the data has to be rescued from the copy without putting the original medium at risk This objective may be achieved by either making a physical 1 1 copy 6 1 4 Drive to drive or by creating a physical image gt 6 1 8 Create drive image of the defective original hard disk The created image file may then be restored to another hard disk in a second step The result will be the same in both cases The target me dium will always contain a bi
131. w at the beginning on how many computers and how often you will use the software we offer you a very simple and cost effective license model which restricts you the least possible 9 1 1 License model The following table shows you the minimum number of licenses necessary for the respective area of use Edition Private users Companies Institutions Professionals Free Sufficient Insufficient Insufficient Basic 1 license Insufficient Insufficient Standard 1 license 1 license per location Insufficient 1 license per 5 PCs Professional 1 license 1 license per location 1 license per dedicated PC 1 license per 25 PCs 1 license per techni cian Enterprise 1 license 1 license per location 1 license per dedicated PC 1 license per 100 PCs 1 license per techni cian License is taken into account for the respective other indicated criteria Existing PC work stations regardless of actual use of HDClone Technicians are all employees who use HDClone simultaneously or for field service PC which is exclusively used for HDClone for example as copy server In practice the use of HDClone can involve a different number of PCs according to the area of use despite a similar use Either the program is permanently used on one single or several few computers which the media to be copied is con nected to when needed Or HDClone is always used directly on the respective computers
132. wing subchapters o HDClone stops during device recognition 5 6 Selecting a copy mode o No SCSI hard disks are recognized o Not all SCSI hard disks are recognized 7 5 1 Restart If HDClone stops during the startup or does not show the desired SCSI drives try to restart with a warm boot reset button Only if this does not fix the problem you should try a cold start switch off the PC and switch it on again after 30 sec onds Both forms of restart may solve signal problems of SCSI controllers 7 5 2 Deactivate unused controllers If a restart does not lead to the desired result you should if your system dispos es of several SCSI controllers deactivate unused controllers This is also recom mended if a controller is principally used but the hard disks connected to it are not needed for using HDClone m USB 83 7 5 3 Deactivate unused drives In some cases SCSI hard disks which are connected to the same controller can interfere with each other or even with the controller itself Deactivate individual hard disks as a test or connect them step by step after one another to find out which hard disk possibly causes an interference Make sure that the last SCSI de vice is always terminated also during the tests 7 5 4 Minimum configuration of the controller The configuration of the SCSI controller over its BIOS setup or the BIOS setup of the PC in case of onboard controllers can also solve the problem Set the lowest re
133. with other pro grams running at the same time If this option is selected HDClone tries to create a HotCopy or a Livelmage first Creating images only Usually it is not necessary to store the files pagefile sys and hiberfil sys in the file image If this option is activated both files will be stored in the file image When creating a 1 1 copy whether smart or physical this option is always activated 5 8 5 2 Source and target These options refer to the specific abilities of source and target drives o Note These options are not available under Windows and will therefore not be displayed by HDClone W Option Meaning IRO In IRO mode source and target are optimally synchro nized Only this leads to a maximum copy transfer rate DMA For highest transfer rate and the shortest copying time Read cache Use fast read buffer Write cache Multi sector PIO Recovery via PIO Cooling phase Use fast write buffer Increases speed by about 10 compared to the stan dard mode when DMA is deactivated see above Optimal recovery of defective sectors To fix data errors or interruptions during the USB data transfer gt 7 6 2 Other device problems 48 Program instructions 5 9 Copying data The final dialog page is named Copy data gt fig 18 Check the settings in the status field copy mode source target and the selected options If needed go back by clicking Back in the low

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