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Using Speed Clone

speed001.gif (6057 bytes) There are only 3 Steps involved for you to clone a drive.

1. Choose the Destination Drive (the drive you want to copy to)

2. Choose the Source Drive (the drive you want to copy from)

3. Choose Initiate Copy

Note: You must choose the destination FIRST!

Note: Once you choose the destination drive, the option to choose that drive as the source is no longer available.  This is to protect you from accidentally choosing to copy a drive to itself.

As you make your drive selections those choices are reflected in the "Copying" window at the bottom of the program screen.

 

What is this PID stuff?

If you notice the choices for choosing drives say for example:

PID 80 -- MB <2012>

PID stands for Physical Drive Identifier

80, 81, 82 etc. are the numbers that are assigned to the first, second, third PHYSICAL drives in the system.

MB= Megabytes of Drive

 

When you choose the "Source Drive" all of the LID (Logical Drive Identifiers) C: D: etc. will be displayed in the source drive information window.

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If the Source Drive contained several partitions, then the software would allocate the same percentage of drive space per partition on the new destination drive.

For example if the Source drive is a 1 GIG drive with two 500MB partitions and you are cloning to a new 10 GIG drive then Speed Clone will set the software to copy the partitions as two 5 GIG partitions.

You are allowed to change the default partition size assigned by Speed Clone, However you should use caution that you make sure of the following:

1. That you do not create a partition that is two small to hold the data. (in this example, you would not want to make any of the partitions less than 500 MB to assure that they are large enough to hold the data to be copied)

2. You should make sure that the size of the partitions still totals the full size of the destination drive. (in this example, you could change the software to 4GIG and 6GIG but you should not choose two 4GIG as you would then loose 2 GIG on the destination drive.  Likewise, you could not choose two 6GIG as that is more space than the drive actually has)

What if you want to copy 3 partitions to ONE big drive? 

You must use caution when doing this, as duplicate folder or file names can cause data loss.

For example, if your customer backs up his payroll software data from C: to D: once per month and you use the method described here; then you will copy the backup over the origional and your customer will lose a months worth of payroll data.

Process for Moving all the data from multiple partitions to one big partition on the new drive.

After choosing the Destination and Source Drives choose to clone ONLY the bootable partition of the Source Drive (usually C:). Make sure that the full size of the drive is set for the destination partition.  After cloning the drive with the operating system and setups use Windows XCOPY32 to move the files from the other partitions over to the new drive that has been cloned using Speed Clone.

When you have made all of your choices just click on "Initiate Copy"