Windows 10: Macrium Clone Disks not available on recovery media

Hi there

seems to be a genuine needed feature that's missing in Macrium Free== You can only clone disks if running from within Windows -- the clone disk option isn't available in the bootable recovery media. (Or if it is I've missed it).

Apart from the "Not in Best practices" to copy the HDD on which the OS is actually running isn't it always better to do this type of activity from some live distro e.g winpe or whatever - that way the HDD being copied can be "locked" against changes while the copy is being done.

Imaging is a different matter as VSS locks it anyway but on clone disks you really are attempting to copy data byte for byte.

I know also you can use "Intelligent sector copying -- i.e don't copy those that are empty / unallocated.

I hope that the Clone Disk facility will be incorporated soon.

(I needed it when I was copying a VM to another totally different type of disk - created the new (Virtual) HDD for the VM and then using the recovery ISO to boot the VM from I saw that there was no Clone / Copy disk functionality). What I needed to do was copy the VM to the new (Virtual) HDD and delete the old one - I didn't want to re-install windows again to re-create the VM.


Cheers
jimbo

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