
Paragon Drive Copy Professional:Ĭloning software is an essential tool that helps you when your original hard disk fails.

Stated "Clone Completed in 4:47:30." However I took note of the the the partition sizes.

The input HDD in the laptop is a 1TB and the output is a 1TB in a USB enclosure.

Just completed an overnight CLONE of my laptop's Win 8.1 Pro C: boot drive HDD using the most current version Macrium Reflect (.7299). To a very high level without gobbling up rescources in the process. The basic version is free, and still very effective if you're prepared to run it regularly, and the fully paid version takes real-time security Make is the venerable Malwarebytes, which perfectly complements the excellent built-in MS anti-malware offerings. And the full paid versions are no more expensive than the competition.Ģ) If you're running Win 7 - 8 - 8.1, why do you bother with Norton? IMHO, the free built-in Windows Defender or Security Essentials are now probably more effective than Norton, McAfee, AVG, Avast, and all the rest of that bunch. Moreover, it's free, unless you want to do extra-clever stuff like cloning to a destination partition smaller than your Now the plug for my Windows hero is out of the Henry:ġ) if you just want to clone any Windows system, including 8.1, IMHO, Macrium Reflect has been for several years way ahead of the field. If I have any Windows problem I just google it plus his name. Not onlyĭoes he write extremely well, he's even published some very readable technology-related fiction. As he poited out, the guy who knows everything about this is Mark Russinovich, who is my go-to guru and the Font of All Knowledge in the World of Windows. I have experienced the same problem as set out by Adam Skeaping who started this thread.
