- #HOW TO HOW TO CLONE UEFI DISK USING SYMANTEC GHOST 11.5 FULL#
- #HOW TO HOW TO CLONE UEFI DISK USING SYMANTEC GHOST 11.5 SOFTWARE#
- #HOW TO HOW TO CLONE UEFI DISK USING SYMANTEC GHOST 11.5 LICENSE#
- #HOW TO HOW TO CLONE UEFI DISK USING SYMANTEC GHOST 11.5 WINDOWS#
Such destruction is in most cases caused by loss of power and that should be a tip to eveyone that power requirements of disks is critical so some connections are questionable when it comes to recovery and/or clone. If you look closely at any product capable of low level disk operations you will find somewhere that it is always advised that a backup of the source disk be taken prior to such operation to provide a "safety net" in case data destruction does occur. Many thanks to Rob for discovering this so that it is now possible to offer a probable solution to users whom experience the problem.Ĭlone or recovery to a "live" disk (one that is booted" is a no no! Reason is that low level operations of recovery and clone can destroy data on a live disk. The locked drive issue referred to here is an anomaly only found on some systems. As long as the device reports to the base OS correctly as a bonafiable storage device recovery to or clone of the device is possible. Enchantech doesn't have a locked drive issue like I do with his tests, so this may be unique to my gigabyte motherboard (z170X gaming 3 version 1.0 runninf f.20c firmware).įormfactor in this context does not matter. However, if it does fail to boot (no device found message afterwards and you've done everything properly and verify the bios configs after the restore), chances are the disk is locked and booting into safemode is all you need. So long story short, you can go in either direction with backup/restore or clone when switching between SSD and PCIE NVME drives. It's easy to do now that I know, but it took me a long time to narrow down the specific issue and fix. I still have an open support case for this though and am helping to determine why and try to find a fix so you don't have to go into safe mode first to unlock the drive before it boots up. Ultimately though, found that it was an easy fix of going into safemode to "unlock" the disk that was somehow being locked when restoring to SSD. I then did a clone to the SSD - problems. I first did a restore to the SSD - problems. Recently, I wanted to backup and restore to a regular SATA drive as I only have (had - i picked up a cheap one from mydigitaldiscount based on a Tom's hardware review) one and was curious to know if it would work so I could be up and running if something happened to that drive. Have been using the system like that for over a year now without issue.
#HOW TO HOW TO CLONE UEFI DISK USING SYMANTEC GHOST 11.5 FULL#
I initially started with an SSD and took a full disk backup and restored it to my NVME PCIE drive.
I have been doing this with SATA SSD to SATA SSD (even through a USB connection) and back again, but as I start to venture into NVMe drives, I'm wondering what is a convenient backup solution equivalent to 'cloning'? Thanks for any input. no exclusions can be set, only Differential backups can be created etc unless you pay for the full-fat product.īobbo, are you saying you 'backed up' your NVME drive to the SATA and then 'restored' the SATA back to the NVME afterwards? Or are you saying you just went from SATA to NVME? I'm interested in NVME but I was hoping for an easy 'clone' type (or restore) operation using an easy SATA interface in case something happens.
#HOW TO HOW TO CLONE UEFI DISK USING SYMANTEC GHOST 11.5 SOFTWARE#
Macrium Reflect Free is good software but has its own limitations, i.e.
#HOW TO HOW TO CLONE UEFI DISK USING SYMANTEC GHOST 11.5 LICENSE#
I also use Macrium Reflect at times, plus have used Paragon, Symantec Ghost, Easeus ToDo, AOMEI Backupper and other similar programs for testing or when working on computers for friends who have no license for ATIH. We see too many users who have hit significant problems from attempting this within Windows, made 100% worse at times by having no valid backup from before doing so.Īt the end of the day, this is a user forum, and as users ourselves, we would advise you to use whatever will work best for you in your system situation. antivirus / security software, VSS being used for snapshot etc.
#HOW TO HOW TO CLONE UEFI DISK USING SYMANTEC GHOST 11.5 WINDOWS#
Windows introduces many more factors that can cause problems when cloning, i.e. Personally, using the Rescue Media and doing this type of activity outside of Windows is a whole lot safer than doing the same from within Windows unless the two drives involved are not active / in use by Windows. Macrium Reflect defaults to using Windows PE for its media, so using the ATIH WinPE Rescue Media is a more direct comparison. Robert, the standard Acronis Rescue Media can also be used for cloning but has limitations based on the Linux kernel that is used in the media which can have issues with these newer types of drives.