baweeks Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Mac person here with question #2. My Vista box, I want to do what we Mac people call "cloning" the C: drive to an external USB HDD that's formatted using the Vista GUI in NTFS. I can have Retro Express 7.6 for Windows duplicate all the files over, and I can set the BIOS to look first to boot from the external USB device, but it won't boot. I think this is a Vista question, but must I do something after the formatting of the external drive, something about creating boot blocks, before I do the duplicate of all files using Retrospect? The format utility in the Vista GUI has a dimmed-out option to make a bootable MS-DOS disk. Or, is there a free utility that will make a bootable clone including whatever boot blocks needed, onto my external USB HDD and not use Retrospect? I trust EMC/Retrospect to make a perfect clone down to the pixel and would like to use it if possible. I do have EASUS partition manager, free version, FWIW. -Thanks in advance to who ever replies -baweeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Retrospect does not support making bootable duplicates under WIndows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baweeks Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Thank you, Robin, for your answer. I'm using Express 7.6 Windows for my one Vista (soon to be W7) box until I can get 8.1 Mac to back it up as a client with decent speed (that's an issue for the 8.1 Mac forum). I'm taking it from your answer that the new Retro Professional for Windows will also not make a bootable clone, correct? From looking at the upgrade matrix for Windows, is Express being end-of-lifed at Vista, and if I wish to continue backing my soon-to-be-W7 box with an EMC Windows product and not in client mode, my move would be to upgrade to Professional at 29.00, correct? Will 8.1 Mac make a bootable clone of my Windows box in client mode? I know it will make bootable clones of Mac boot volumes; maybe Windows is different. Any ideas of utilities for Windows similar to SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner for the Mac? Thank you, Robin. -baweeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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