Ali Gator, the same license has been given to me, but when activating it say the same as you, "activation code has been used"! did they provide the same code for us to compete for it, or every one to use the code!
the bad thing, they are quite do not give clarification, let me uninstall it is useless!

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[ Nick ],

Is drive 0 UEFI?

AweClone doesn't work on UEFI drives.
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Peter Blaise, (thanks for response)
Where do I look to find this info - and do you mean the C drive (Drive 0) or the external drive F (Drive 1)?

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[ Nick ],

Yes, the first drive, the boot drive, is usually drive 0, alphabetically C: ( there are reasons it's not 1 and A: ... gotta love random computer geek history ! ).

We OUGHT to be able to identify any drive using today's GOTD MaGoShare AweClone software, right?

Ya think?

After all, it's supposed to be the "... Best ..." at knowing about hard disk drives and being able to copy them, clone them.

Right?

Apparently NOT!

Let's ask another GOTD participant, EasyUEFI:

-- Press the [ Windows ][ R ] keys to open the Windows Run dialog,

-- type [ msinfo32 ][ Enter ] to open System Information window.

-- In the right pane of System Summary, you should see the [ BIOS MODE ] line.

-- If the value of BIOS MODE is [ Legacy ], then Windows is booted in legacy BIOS mode.

-- If the value of BIOS MODE is [ UEFI ], then Windows is booted in UEFI BIOS mode.

More at:

https://www.easyuefi.com/resource/check-windows-is-booted-in-uefi-mode.html

I have no "BIOS MODE" information because my computer has no UEFI BIOS and therefore has no choices of different boot modes and different drive layouts, unaware that being a single mode = what is now known as "legacy" mode ... like when Subaru only made one car, so never gave it a name, until they made another car, then having to name the original the Subaru Legacy, I guess.

The only way I know how to change from an UEFI boot and hard drive layout to NTFS legacy hard drive boot and layout is to

-- change all BIOS settings to "legacy boot" and no UEFI,

-- then reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system from scratch,

... which I do the moment I take a new computer out of the box.

The only time I have ever experience UEFI boot is just before a long series of swear words filling the room and emptying the building.

Just saying.
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[ Brian ],

Yes, I know what those non-drive letter partitions are for.

; - )

Oh, you want an explanation?

=8^o

They are your computer's and Windows resources for pre-boot and intelligent transfer of control from boot to the Windows partition, plus recovery ( where [ F10 ] or other "reset to factory default" boot options hide ), and so on, and there may be one or more at the end of the drive, also ... plus unpartitioned space if the drive's sector count numbers don't match and align with Microsoft's neatness expectations for beginnings and endings ... sometimes I expand a partition into the empty space, sometimes I partition it as a drive letter for data storage like it was a permanent thumb drive.

Clone the entire drive ... or install Windows on the target drive first, then clone only the Windows partition from the working source drive to that pre-formatted WIndows target drive, whatever works.
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starvinmarvin, License code for AweClone for Mac:
DL9JI-NWLY5-GNN53-NUGLB-6QWU3

Jean Baljuw, The developer of the software. We are publishers.

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[ Mike ],

Thanks for the exploration, especially the SUPPLEMENTAL COOLING FAN reminder ... I have all my hard drives running under 99° Fahrenheit, often at or below room temperature: "live by heat, die by heat", if it feels warm to the touch, it's dying ... I've installed as many as 6 or more supplemental PC fans ( many salvaged from old dead PCs and power supplies ) in each desktop / tower PC aimed directly at hot-spots like hard disk drives, memory and processor chips, and especially video cards, but laptops are hard to cool, so I drill and Dremel the cabinet ( when disassembled ) around the hard drive, then use flat or squirrel-cage fans powered by external AC adapters and external USB power supply adapters to blow directly on the hard drives ( when assembled ).

I usually clone hard disk drives back and forth via an old desktop / tower computer that has 4 or more SATA sockets, 2 to boot it's own disk and disc drives, plus 2 for adding the two drives to be cloned back and forth, because I find USB cloning to be too slow to support a cloning-checking-tweaking-settings-cloning-again-checking cycle -- and even the oldest slowest SATA desktop is faster than USB, so folks, keep or acquire at least one old "workbench" PC ( used start at $25 or less, I find them in the trash room of apartment buildings daily, free ).

Now, CLONE wise ...

Do you or ANYONE have any experience with THIS software making an IMMEDIATELY BOOTABLE CLONE?

Yes or no?

If yes, what hardware setup and software settings worked for you?

How about a different "shape" clone, that is, cloning a 1 TB to a 320 GB, or visa-versa, and then immediately booting the clone?

Thanks.
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Back to your general info post:

"Cloning" is a great way to backup, and hard disk drives are cheap, so if we clone our boot drive as soon as it's prepped and ready to go, that is, Windows installed and updated to current, with our main applications installed and registered ( before restoring or creating our data ), we can CLONE the new boot drive, and set the clone aside as an emergency swap after an inevitable crash, installing it as our internal boot drive, and immediately starting up and running ...

... then reattach the just-crashed drive as an external drive, scrub it of infections, copy the data to the internal drive, and then CLONE the working internal drive to the useless external drive, and set the external drive aside as the next emergency boot drive to be used after a crash.

Leapfrog or toggle the drives back and forth over time to quickly recover from unbootable crashes, and clone again and again whenever we want a backup, though a third ( and fourth and fifth ) drive is probably best just for data backup without the need to boot from the data-backup-drive.

Thanks for sharing and keeping us tech savvy, [ Mike ].
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Hi Mike! The sequence at switch on is as follow:
1. Preparing auto repair
2. Computer diagnostic
3. Auto repair not possible. Options: Switch off, Advanced options
4. Advanced option:
5. Adv.op. :Troubbleshot
6. Restore point: made a restore from saved restore point. Did not help.
7. Start up repair: no change.
8. Start options: Tried most options incl. Fail Safe, non of them worked.

In this case I wish I had a cloned disk

Hans, User ettings in the "Windows Defender Security Center" may be blocking access. It is called "Controlled Folder Access". See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046851/windows-10-allow-blocked-app-windows-security AND https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files/windows-10-controlled-folder-access-an OR search MS Windows Support for "controlled folder access in windows 10."

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[ Dudley S ],

UEFI?

This software seems to be NTFS, so, not for you.

Their specifications say:
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File system

FAT 12/16/32
NTFS/NTFS5
EXT 2/3, exFAT
HFS/HFS+
Others
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"Others" does not include UEFI, apparently.
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... I love the voting here at GOTD ( not ), apparently some folks think that looking up the technical specifications for the software offering of the day, and bringing them into the discussion thread is not useful.
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[ Gary ],

If your computer boots via UEFI, then Magooshare Aweclone will not see any boot drive.
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[ Delta Vee ],

If your computer boots via UEFI, then Magooshare Aweclone will not see any boot drive.

You can clone 2 external drives, one to the other, though.
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Blue, License code for AweClone for Mac:
DL9JI-NWLY5-GNN53-NUGLB-6QWU3

Egmont, same thing happened to me. When I uninstalled my pc rebooted without notice. Just awful!!

Egmont, Do you try to install Windows or Mac version?

muhozah, I have tried to type the key still I can not register the software, it give the same error message, "License key has been used"
please tell what is going wrong!

muhozah, Do you try to install Windows or Mac version?

Alexa, I am installing on the latest version of windows 10 pro 64bit,

Eddie, no the other one; setup exe

Eddie,

Because image backup & cloning apps require a driver to copy Windows files that are in use when Windows is running, there are no portable image backup or cloning apps available AFAIK. The only exception may be an app's bootable USB stick when the app lets you create one. And in that case the software on the USB stick will usually only run when you boot to that USB stick, assuming you can even access the app's files [often stored in a .wim file, it can get complicated].

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[ mike ],

What you are saying is that the portability is not the problem, but the need to boot from another drive than the drive being cloned is the problem.

Got it -- thanks for the differentiation between "portable" and "on bootable media".
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Frank,

Hi Frank, here in Australia we use “A lot” to describe plenty.

Sorry this upsets you. However your comment is useless, please if you have something useful I’d like you to provide it.

Also can confirm hash checks match that of EaseUS getting dodgier.

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[ Matthew P ],

Do you think they are the same companies underneath their marketing presentations, perhaps trying to open new markets, perhaps hiding from bad reputations, or maybe they cross-license?

Inspect and research some more and let us know what you find.

Sometimes I even inspect Trademark registrations at the US Trademark Office and see who signed them -- are they the same for both companies?

CLUE!
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Tes ter, Norton Ghost can duplicate a hard disk entire without going through win platform .

Eddie, I use Ghost 2003 on my Dell Deminsion 8200 to do backup images and also clones. It works fine. It will not work on Windows 10 .. Some say Ghost 11.5 does work on Windows 10, but I can not get either version to work with the USB Keyboard, Mouse or External Drive when using a Ghost Boot CD on the old Dell. I have Acronis TruImage 2017 which can boot from the CD or USB Drive and that will see the above devices. It also will work on Windows 10 computers.

Eddie, my research indicates norton ghost went EOL in 2014

Tes ter,
Used Acronis True Image in the past few months - free with purchase of Crucial SSHD
Cloned fine, but restricted to cloning only.

Bruce, funny. I did the same with my work's 8250 during its early days. :D

Richard, yep. Symantec killed its consumer Norton Ghost. Its enterprise Ghost lived on. :(

Ant, Tes Ter, My version of Acronis TruImage is the 2017 which I paid for. It lets it install on 3 computers and the cost was very reasonable. I do not mind paying a one time fee to buy software, as long as the cost is reasonable. I despise software with time limits or where you need to renew the license each year. (unless the only thing that happens is you do not get upgrades or updates if you do not renew)