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AweClone 3.0 for Win was available as a giveaway on August 28, 2024!
AweClone offers sector by sector technology to help easily and securely clone hard disk drive, system hard drive or external device. You can completely migrate your data and contents from one hard drive to another without any loss.
Powerful Disk Cloner
Powerful disk cloning software to easily and completely clone any hard disk or storage device to another hard disk drive or device.
HDD/SSD Cloning Software
Clone HDD to SSD or clone SSD to HDD with ease. You also can clone SDD or HDD to external hard drive, storage media device.
Clone System Hard Drive
Make an identical copy of your system hard drive in event of system crash or system error. Duplicate your hard disk drive on any other computer/hard drive.
System Requirements:
Windows 11/ 10/ 8/ 7/ Vista; Mac OS 10.7 - macOS 12; English language
Publisher:
MagoshareHomepage:
https://www.magoshare.com/disk-clone/disk-clone.htmlFile Size:
83.6 MB
Licence details:
Lifetime, no updates
Price:
$24.95
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I noticed a dark yellow "Activation" button on the bottom left of the initial window. I clicked on the "Activation" button and it asked for Registration Key. I entered the info from the "Readme" and it was activated. There was no pop-up window.
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Can AweClone 3.0 for Windows clone the operating system on my Windows computer's SSD along with everything else on the SSD, and transfer the contents to an external HDD or SSD? When the clone is installed on another computer, will it boot?
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AweClone is basically a subset or portion of a disk/partition image backup app -- the main difference, along with features like incremental backups, is that image backup software clones the HDD to a VHD [Virtual Hard Disk], though most can clone a disk or partition(s) to a physical drive as well. As a single file without any wasted free space, a VHD is simply a better choice for storing the cloned data from an HDD. That said, there's nothing preventing you from cloning to a VHD you create and attach [mount] in Windows.
Many of AweClone's files have names starting with EU, which I associate with EaseUS, and in fact there are a couple that include EaseUS in the name. That's good, because EaseUS is generally a very good company that's been in the business of backup software for quite a long time. The bad part is that like AOMEI, the bootable USB stick you create with their apps generally will not work with Secure Boot enabled, and it is in most every current Windows device. I tried creating a bootable USB stick in AweClone, and the process of creating the USB stick failed. I was able to create an ISO however, which could be put on a bootable USB stick using the free Rufus app, but again, it probably wouldn't work unless you turned off Secure Boot.
AweClone had an orange button for activation on the lower left 1/4 of its window that disappears once activated. It flashed a message immediately that there was an update available -- I activated the original version [from GOTD] then updated and it remained activated or registered. Updating involves downloading the setup file, which uninstalls the app when run, before installing the newer version.
AweClone itself is not portable -- it will run without being installed, but it throws an error because it can't find any attached drives, and it's service isn't installed & running. If you need to run it from a USB stick create that in AweClone, or create the ISO & use Rufus. Installing the app adds the program's folder, plus an empty "SystemAcCrux" folder in ProgramData\. Besides the service, the registry gets a couple of keys plus one more for uninstall.
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Installed and the program immediately said and update was available (v3.1). I did not activate 3.0, just uninstalled it. I then installed 3.1, which activated with the code from the goatd readme.
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Is this in any way better than the numerous free disk cloning utilities out there?
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my questions... what's new in 3.0?
On products home page it lists different system requirements which is correct here or there?
"Operating System
Windows 11
Windows 10
Windows 8/8.1
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows Server"
Is cloning process fault tolerant? i.e. if we have a failing drive with bad sectors that need to be remapped but the sector data is either partially or completely unreadable from that or those sectors will the clone process continue just skipping the damaged sectors and allow the admin to restore the data lost in the damage sectors from a file backup or windows install DVD/ISO image file?
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Need help with activation, nothing pops up. In about it doesn't say anything about license or registration.
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Reid, the previous license which is being re-used in 3.0 or 3.1 whichever you've ended up installing the license key is stored in the file C:\Program Files\Magoshare\AweClone\bin\Configure.dat in a default install on a 32bit system yours may be in a slightly different location. If you delete or rename that file you should get prompts or popups that enable activation of new license code.
TK
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Reid, After installed... don't update when program is started. See Registration on the left from the program. It works for me. Maybe you install that program before? Maybe that is reason.
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There is no button to be found for the activation key to be filled in, neither comes a pop up menu. Pls. let us know how we can activate. TXS
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Can this be installed on a USB as portable so if the drive it is on fails, you can move the cloned backup to a new system
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rww, no, but you can create a USB stick with the app from within the program itself.
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If I have enough room on the drive can I clone two C:drives to one external drive for our desktop and laptop
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rww, You're better off using a disk/partition image backup app, which will clone the drives to individual VHDs on that external drive. If you wanted to clone the drives instead, you'd need to create 2 partitions on the external drive, one for each cloned drive.
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rww,
That is not what cloning software does. Sounds like you are talking about backup software, specifically drive imaging software.
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Could it "copy" larger to smaller partition? Or HDD of 1 Tb with 250 GB occupied to HDD of 500 GB?
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Per the user guide -- magoshare.com/user-guide/disk-clone-user-guide.html -- there is an option to "Autofit the disk", so yes.
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So would this program be good to use as a backup?
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Mike, only to create a clone of the system drive and any data drive akin to imaging drives except it produces a theoretically swap in replacement for the original drives there and then rather than waiting for the disaster and then creating the replacement from a previously stored image file. Not a replacement for important files backup as that is a much smaller and faster task. I say theoretically swap in replacement as although the description states:
"Clone System Hard Drive
Make an identical copy of your system hard drive in event of system crash or system error. "
comment https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/aweclone-3-0/#comment-721934
suggests resultant copy of system drive is not bootable... Eeeek! That is likely due to the boot configuration expecting a different drive signature or the clone being done with the operating system live causing the resultant copy to be in some compromised state and in need of some repair. and the marketing people having free reign with the description note they do NOT say the cloned system drive is bootable they just imply it would be.
TK
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Mike, there's really no upside to using a cloning app instead of a disk/partition image backup app.
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TK,
Very appreciative of your answer-
Would you be so kind as to recommend a good back up
for my whole system- that would be bootable?
What do you use?
Super thank you in advance- Mike
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Mike, sorry with such complexities that are now involved in making drives bootable with secure boot and UEFI BIOS systems I cannot with any degree of confidence recommend any bullet proof bootable backup solution for everyone. What I have used does not solve everything... I'm still stuck on my two drive vista server laptop having to press any key on reboot to get past a non system disk press any key prompt... I cannot be bothered to diagnose and fix it... and that is a standard BIOS booting, not TPM2.0 secure boot UEFI system like my windows 10 systems... good luck!
TK
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I had a previous version installed, so I told the new installation to uninstall the previous one. Once I ran the program, I did not get a pop-up window asking for activation, and I do not see an activation listing in the program menus.
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RT, Yeah same here, no where to use code to activate.
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portable? bypassing o.s. ? ssd to ssd ? . via usb ?
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EDDIE,
Not portable.
Bypassing OS, but in previous version could not copy os drive, meaning the copied drive did not boot.
(Data is copied, but still it wont boot)
Ssd to ssd, sure, all drives (but remember previous note, eg cannot copy your windows installation drive)
Via usb, yes, thats what I used in previous version.
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EDDIE, yes 3.1 from the vendors website has a WinPE builder function that can produce a winPE but the browse operation to place the ISO where I want it results in the GUI crashing and going pooft. so not quite ready for prime time but it will build a winPE ISO with the default settings of putting it on the desktop.... it also drops a copy called image.iso in the programs bin folder so dosn't really need to drop a copy called emergencydisk.iso older versions did not have buildPE function.
TK
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Downloaded and installed version 2.9.0 from this site in january 2024. Program installed without problems and worked perfectly. Nice and easy to use GUI. However, after uninstalling the program, my PC won't boot anymore. BSOD with error message that no OS could be found. Apparently AweClone changes the boot sequence and removing the program also deletes the new sequence. Tried a lot of usual repair methods, but nothing worked. Finally I could restore my PC from a previous Easeus ToDo Backup. Never found out what happened exaclly.
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