When is a clone not a clone?

[TonyD]

We've all seen Starwars and know that clones look identical and work identical.

For backup I copy and paste to external drives or upload to the web. Cloning is different, old computers will fail and you would like to continue using them from an external cloned drive. Did a RX Driver Clone backup on wife's laptop as it is just about finished so that she can continue to browse the internet and play with photos. Basic things.

Installed RX Clone Driver on a different computer to inspect the results of the backup. On trying to validate I get happy messages like:

• Read image tailer: !check_struct_crc, E:\harddrive0.ego

• image open image file: read image tailer failed

• get snap meta data:image_open_image failed!

• load image2 failed!

I'm not sure I'd like whoever writes you error messages cheering me from the sidelines in finely balanced football match.

Your help page suggests that even in the happy event of getting past all the error messages of doom that all I will have is a frozen imageof the hardrive from which although it can be jigged to perform a boot, will only do so in a read only capacity, and will fail or post more errors of doom in the event that a write is attempted.

My question is is there such a thing as a real clone external driver that can replace internal failed hard drives and continue functioning (albeit slower)?

[HDS-Jacob]

TonyD, Greetings and welcome to the Horizon DataSys Forum!

Please submit a ticket to support @ http://support.horizondatasys.com and we'll also see if we can get an answer here. Thanks for stopping by and may the force be with you.

Thanks,
Jacob