Hdclone Professional
Charlie Gibby
Hi, I am interested if anyone uses HDClone 4 for their imaging and cloning needs? I cannot see anywhere in the description of the software if it can grab images and then deploy to dissimilar hardware in the way that Acronis does or like how ShadowProtect does with their HIR feature.
I am more interested in the licensing for the Backup and Recovery 11.5 Desktop. If I backup the one workstation but use the Live media to push that backup to multiple workstations, is the one license sufficient?
Acronis Backup & Recovery Workstation is designed for continuous backup of workstation with support of scheduling, full backups and incremental. And it will require license for each machine you are using it on - so it would make sense to use it for regular backup too.
I actually discovered something with HD Clone that did not see before that may be what I am looking for. First, let me explain what I am doing that seems to work. I own a professional license for HD Clone so I get top speed out of the program. I am now maintaining an image in Virtual Box using a VHD as the virtual hard drive format. I completely set up the machine the way that I want, then I run my sysprep on it (but not before shutting it down and cloning it to have a pre-sysprepped version). After sysprep runs and completes (I have an Unattend file and a setup complete batch file in the appropriate locations) and the system shuts down, I mount the VHD as a drive on my Windows 7 system and then capture it using HD Clone.
I then restore the image to whichever computer I need to image it to using the HD Clone Live cd. I can maintain the image with Virtual Box and go through this process as necessary for any major updates.
For daily and professional use. The Professional Edition is the fast and universal all-round tool with many special features for cloning, creating images, backups and migrating disks.
HDClone allows copies from dynamic disks on regular disks and RAID systems. This offers a reliable way of a reverse migration, something not possible with Windows tools. This feature is not solely intended for expert users managing a dynamic disk set, it also allows users having accidently transformed their disk to a single dynamic disk to undo this mistake by transforming their dynamic disk back to a regular disk. Of course HDClone still allows for copies of arbitrary dynamic disk sets and partitions thereof onto regular disks.
HDClone can access Intel Software RAIDs (also known as Intel Matrix Storage) in modes 0, 1, 10 and 5 in the self-booting version (HDClone/S). Intel Software RAIDs can be used just like regular hardware RAID systems.
TRIM commands are used by HDClone to tell the SSD which disk areas are no longer needed. In addition to higher copying speed the SSD gains its original performance afterwards, resulting in higher reading and writing speed.
Allows to select one or more partitions of a disk to be transferred without having to copy all the partitions. This saves space on the target drive, making it possible to use a smaller target or using the additional space for the remaining partitions. The special thing about PartitionSelect is that it transfers the required data in one single step, no matter what size the partitions have or how they are arranged. Copying the partitions, plus other adjustments will be performed with almost no extra time required and HDClone will still work at its maximum speed.
HDClone can be booted from CD/DVD and USB stick, even on SecureBoot systems, so you even can recover an image without a working operating system. With identical interfaces on both programs there is complete ease in switching between the self-booting version and the Windows program and supports USB and Bluetooth mice and keyboards.
Instead of a direct copy from medium to medium, you can also store an exact image of the medium in a file image. Optionally, the image may be created compressed or encrypted. With QuickCompress ennabled, this requires almost no extra time for compressing. These file images can be stored, archived, or transmitted via network and the Internet. They can be restored 1:1 to a medium which then behaves just like a direct copy had been made. HDClone can also create dynamic VMDK/VHD(X)/VDI images. Such an image can be mounted directly in VMware, VirtualPC and VirtualBox virtual machines.
HDClone can decrease your NTFS, FAT and HFS+ partition size automatically on the fly during copying. This allows you to adjust partition sizes during cloning or to migrate to smaller media. Perfect for migrating to (usually smaller) SSD drives.
HDClone can perform a perfect defragmentation on NTFS, FAT and HFS+ volumes while copying or restoring from a file image. This defragmentation only needs a fraction of the time usually required, consuming almost no additional time compared to the copying process.
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HDClone Professional Edition 6.0.7 is available for free on Download Basket. The minimum amount of storage to install the file is 100.7 MB. This downloadable file has been checked by our built-in antivirus system, the report shows that the software is secure.
Our users often download the installation files for the program with the following names: hdclone.exe, cmd.exe and hdclone64.exe etc. Notice that this tool is compatible with the following OSs: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 32-bit. The copyright of the software belongs to Miray Software AG.
The most popular versions of the software that our community members install are 6.0, 5.1 and 4.3. According to the user reviews, you can notice such a disadvantage of the software as it is very slow. This program refers to System Utilities, according to its main purpose.
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