Partition Manager 8.5

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Copy Hard Disk

In the Basic concepts chapter we mentioned about possible applications of this operation. The program provides the ability to clone hard disks of any file system. During the hard disk copying process, the program moves controlling records of used partitioning scheme, the bootstrap code and on-disk partitions. This operation cannot be substituted by simply copying all on-disk partitions.

The operation can be accomplished with the Copy Hard Disk Wizard. The wizard is so well designed that the user simply needs to follow its easy instructions to make an exact copy of the disk.

Starting

There are several ways to start the Copy Hard Disk Wizard:

In the Main menu: select Wizards > Copy Hard Disk…

On the Common Tasks bar: click the Copy Hard Disk item of the Wizards menu.

In the Toolbar: click the Copy Hard Disk button.

Select a disk on the Disk map and click the Copy Hard Disk item on the page that appears in the Explorer bar.

After following one of the above mentioned actions, the Welcome page of the wizard is displayed.

Settings

The Copy Hard Disk Wizard allows the user to configure the settings and then start the operation in accordance with the entered parameters. Here the user sets the parameters of the operation defining:

The hard disk to copy. Select a hard disk you want to copy

Copy parameters. The Copy Hard Disk Wizard allows the user to specify the following options:

- Copy options. Here the user can activate the sector-to-sector copy mode (allows to process any file system, even unknown one).
- Resize options. This section enables to switch between two options:
Remove free blocks between partitions. If this option is activated, the program does not keep blocks of free space between partitions on the targeted hard disk.
Copy data and resize partitions proportionally. If this option is activated, the program proportionally changes the size of partitions keeping their relative order intact. The option can be useful when upgrading the hard disk to a larger one.
- Verification options. This section allows the user to define whether the Surface test and/or the Writing Verification test will be accomplished during the operation.