So far very happy with Hasleo Backup Suite. The best feature in my opinion is not needing to use a usb stick / drive to image back on the OS drive! It reboots for you into Hasleo Backup Suite for you and restores it! 

The only thing I did not like is getting use to it. It is totally different than Macrium Reflect interface wise. Not a bad thing. It is just different. So far already used to Hasleo Backup Suite interface!

When I cloned the Samsung 2TB ssd C: drive from my laptop (using Samsung migration software) to another exactly same Samsung ssd (which I keep temporarily in a usb caddy to be removed & replaced into laptop in case of emergency), it gave a message saying the C: drive was encrypted and would need to be decrypted before cloning which could take quite a while.

I decrypted it but never bothered re-encrypting because I didn’t want to keep doing it again for future clones and also someone told me this is a requirement of all such programs. But my data is vulnerable if the laptop is stolen.

So before I re-encrypt it, my question is: I know Hasleo Backup must be superior to Samsung Migration software, so can it clone an encrypted drive to another ssd in a usb caddy without the need to first decrypt it? Also can it image encrypted C drive.

I know Hasleo say it preserves BitLocker encryption after restore, but don’t know if this means encryption has to be disabled and then re-enabled with same key, or if it all just works. I don’t want to re-enable it, without asking first.

BACKGROUND:
Running Windows 11 and the latest July 2026 version of Hasleo Backup Suite.
Only Win11 is installed on a 512GB NVMe SSD (C drive).  All data is stored on a different 2TB SATA SSD (D drive).
HDD in the following refers to mechanical hard disk drives.

I backed up the system NVMe SSD using Hasleo's "Disk" backup to an external 4TB HDD in a USB3 docking station.  The image backup was fast.  Now I wanted to verify that restoring that image backup would work.

Since the only spare drive I have is a 1TB SATA HDD, I connected it to a motherboard SATA port.  Then I restored the backup to it.

HERE'S MY QUESTIONS:

Normally, my system boots into Win11's splash screen to enter the password, in 47 seconds.  After entering the password, the Win11 desktop appears within a second, though it then takes maybe 15 seconds to fully complete the Win11 boot.

However, booting the the 1TB restored HDD took about 6 or 7 minutes to boot into Win11's splash screen.  Then it took maybe 1 or 2 minutes to display Win11's desktop.  Then it took 1 or 2 minutes to fully complete the Win11 boot.  Opening File Explorer took about 30 seconds.  IOW, everything about the restored 1TB HDD is very, very slow.  But everything eventually does work OK albeit very, very slow to open.  However, playing MP4 videos on the 1TB HDD plays back normally.

Has anyone else restored their system NVMe SSD to a HDD for testing?  Same slowness?

Since everything works, albeit very very slow to open, it appears that the Hasleo image backup is good.  Is it the difference of the original source drive being a NVMe SSD but the restored drive being a HDD that causing the extreme slowness for booting and opening programs?

Microsoft Tuesday for the 2nd time this year has crashed my wife's Dell notebook.
KB5101650 has been acknowledged by Microsoft as an issue for some Dell computers.
There was a similar issue back in April.

The thank you:
HBS came through with flying colours on both occasions.
Daily incrementals plus an HBSboot.iso made everything easy
with no loss of data.

so "Thank You" HBS!

Hi if I remember it right for some (legal?) reasons the company can't accept donations. 

Maybe you could instead give people that like the software the option to buy a key that lasts e.g. 1 or 3 month. The software would work for 1 or 3 month as a full version and then reverts back to free mode. Or just give them for 1 or 3 month e.g. a "I supported Hasleo" icon in the software since it's about supporting the devs.
I mean some devs on steam sell support packs for free games and you also only get digital stuff as a benefit

To be clear it's not about me I got a paid version but I know that people sometimes just want to support a dev while still not wanting to pay the full price for a product that's offered free.

Hi everyone,
I've been running Windows through WinToUSB for about a year without any issues, but today I ran into a boot problem that I can't seem to resolve.
After the manufacturer's splash screen appears, I immediately get an error message stating that the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) file contains invalid information. From what I can tell, the issue is my own fault—I accidentally removed the BCD entry while using EasyBCD.
Since then, I've tried repairing the boot configuration from the Windows Recovery Command Prompt. However, when I run

My ASUS Zenbook 14 requires drivers to be added to the WinPE boot disk as the keyboard and WiFi6E does not function without them. The drivers were added to the Emergency Disk rebuild with this new beta version, but the keyboard does not work, and the PE Network start but does not present the network window. Same issue when running from either the Boot Menu or the ED.

Any suggestions?

I was wondering if it would be possible to enhance the Smart backup option to show a warning when a disk layout change has occurred.
If you attempt a differential backup when the disk layout has changed, then HBS necessarily performs a new Full backup rather than the expected differential.
It would be good if this was flagged up and the backup was labelled as a full backup rather than a differential.
The disk layout change seems to occur every 2 or 3 months when Microsoft enlarges the recovery partition as part of Patch Tuesday updates.
This usually entails shrinking the C:\ partition by a corresponding amount.
It has happened again following this months Windows update.
At least the smart backup option allows the backup to proceed following the layout change, whereas previously the backup would just fail.

Hi,

Just wondering if there is a way to sort the list of backups on the home tab.

As a new user I've been creating an assortment of different backups but would now like to have my most frequently used ones at the top of the list.

If I delete the backups on the home tab then re-import them, would that work?

TIA

Hello.

I've just discovered this piece of software, and I`ve liked it, but I've found a problem:
I'm trying to backup a windows 10 partition, but when I try to exclude Onedrive folders, using filters, OneDrive folders are always included when I mount the resulting image. Also the size is greater than expected because it is copying all downloaded Onedrive files.
I`ve tried with folder option and folder + file , with *.* in file, obtaining same results.

I think it does not matter, but I'm using OneDrive Professional.

The Hasleo Backup Suite has been v5.8.2.2 Home Version  (trial period), but I think that if I solve this problem I will buy the license.

Thanks a lot in advance.