HDClone 4.3

Free Edition

Simple and free cloning solution

The Free Edition of HDClone clones an entire hard disk to another, larger medium. Use it for migrating an existing installation to a new hard disk or for rescuing data. The Free Edition is real freeware without obligation to buy and is intended for the short-term usage at no cost. In case of more frequent usage, we recommend using one of the higher editions since they offer higher performance, support for a wider range of hardware, and additional options which are optimized for regular or professional use.

Basic Edition

Partitions and MVD (private use only)

The Basic Edition of HDClone is conceived for regular utilization, especially for system migration, backups, data rescue, and system restore. Besides higher performance, it offers arbitrary copying directions and contains extended backup (Disk-to-Partition-Backup), system restore (partition copy), and data rescue (SafeRescue mode) options.

Standard Edition

Cloning and backup (personal and business)

The Standard Edition of HDClone is conceived for frequent and semi-professional use. Besides support for fast logical sector copies (SmartCopy) it offers a verify mode for data reconciliation with the target medium and high copying performance. The fast SmartCopy mode also strongly improves the performance of AutoExpand.

Professional Edition

Cloning, backup, and rescue (professionals)

The Professional Edition of HDClone is conceived for daily and professional use. Its FastCopy mode and freely selectable sector areas give technicians and professionals maximum speed and flexibility. HDClone Professional Edition supports SCSI hard disks and Firewire (IEEE1394) mass storage (SBP2) as well as SAS and RAID with HDClone/W.

Enterprise Edition

Mass cloning 4, 8, or 16 targets at a time

The Enterprise Edition of HDClone is designed for mass reproduction. It allows for mass cloning to all supported drive types. Drive types can be mixed arbitrarily within one copy run. The Enterprise Edition also offers all features of the Professional Edition.

Copying speed: According to the variant used (4x, 8x, 16x), Enterprise Edition copies to up to 4, 8 or 16 drives at a time. Thereby it achieves up to 60 GB/min and more.

Features

• New: Advanced Format drive cloning & backup
• New: Create dynamic VMDK/VHD images
• New: Storing a cloning report
• New: MVD: virtual drives from VMDK & VHD
• New: CLI: automation using ports and media ID
• PartitionSelect
• Self-booting and under Windows
• QuickCompress – fast image compression
• Password protected and ecrypted (AES) images
• UEFI and GPT support
• Mount images via LAN in Miray Virtual Disk
• Miray Virtual Disk: write to virtual drives
• SmartCopy: logical copies
• Generate VMX files and VMDK images for VMware
• SafeRescue mode for data recovery
• Automatic resizing of NTFS and FAT partitions
• Defrag on the fly for NTFS and FAT
• Command line interface (CLI)
• HotCopy & LiveImage during Windows operation

New: Advanced Format

Support for modern sector sizes

While for over 30 years 512 Bytes have been the one-and-only standard sector size for any PC mass storage media, modern drives in "Advanced Format" can have different sector sizes (512, 512e, 1Kn, and 4Kn). HDClone allows to create clones and file images between disks with different sector formats and converts NTFS and FAT file systems automatically in this case.

PartitionSelect

Selective cloning

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 sizes the partitions have or how they are arranged. Thus, copying the partitions plus other adjustments will be perfomed with almost no extra time required and HDClone will still work at its maximum speed.

Self-booting and under Windows

HDClone works without an operating system

HDClone can be booted from CD/DVD, floppy and USB stick, so you even can recover an image without a working operating system. The self-booting version has the same graphical interface as the Windows program.

File images (New: dynamic VMDK & VHD images)

Optional compression and AES encryption

Instead of a direct copy from medium to medium, you can also store an exact image of medium in a file image. Optionally, the image may be created compressed or encrypted. With QuickCompress, 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 and VHD images. Such an image can be mounted directly in VMware and VirtualPC virtual machines.

Miray Virtual Disk (New: dynamic VMDK & VHD images)

Direct access to file images

From the Basic Edition on, HDClone includes the software Miray Virtual Disk. You can use this software to mount file images that have been created with HDClone (including VMDK and VHD) as virtual Windows drives. This allows you to access files and folders in an image directly without having to restore the image to a physical disk before. Images can be accessed read-only or writeable.

UEFI and GPT support

Supports UEFI BIOS and GUID partition tables

This feature allows HDClone to run on computers with new UEFI BIOS. GPT partitions used for large (> 2 TB) hard disks are recognized automatically and copied correctly.

Faster with SmartCopy mode

Faster data transfer and shorter copying times

HDClone creates logical sector copies (SmartCopy) of FAT, NTFS, and ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems in only a fraction of the time usually needed - yielding an equivalent result. SmartCopy can clone an entire Windows XP base installation in less than 20 seconds for example.

Automatic resizing

Resizing for larger and smaller targets

HDClone can expand your Windows and Linux partitions (NTFS, FAT, ext2, ext3, ext4) and downsize NTFS and FAT partitions. You can adjust partition sizes independently and arbitrarily.

Defragmentation on the fly

Make NTFS and FAT partitions faster while copying

HDClone can perform a perfect defragmentation on NTFS and FAT volumes during copying or restoring from a file image. This defragmentation only needs a fraction of the time usually required for defragmentation. Hence, it consumes almost no additional time compared to the copying itself.

Command line interface (CLI) (New: Port and media ID)

Automated backups and toolchain integration

Starting from the Professional Edition, HDClone can be launched in the command line of Windows. This enables cloning tasks to be executed time-triggered and/or scripted. Drives can be selected by Windows ID (dynamic), port number (fixed, IDE/SATA/SCSI only), or media ID (fixed, drive name/serial).

HotCopy & LiveImage

Copies and backup during operation

HDClone now can create copies and file images of drives and partitions during Windows operation - even for the system volume.

Safe data recovery

Read defective media in SafeRescue mode

When copying from media with defective areas these areas will be skipped in the first run. The rescue operation will be performed at the end of the process to prevent further disk damage.

Hardware requirements

Self-booting (HDClone/S)

• 586 processor or higher
• 64 MB RAM
• VGA graphics
• bootable floppy or CD/DVD drive

Windows program (HDClone/W)

See the hardware requirements of your Windows version.

Supported controllers

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A complete list of Adaptec SCSI host adapters supported by HDClone/S is to be found here.

Supported media

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Image files need to be stored to certain file systems (on Windows, any supported file system may be used).

Data sheet

You can download the data sheet for HDClone 4.3 as PDF file and print it.

Manual

You can download the manual for HDClone 4.3 as PDF file and print it.