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Clone or backup a flash drive (removable disc) - Wilson - 03-16-2025
I often need to create backups or clones of flash drives (removable disc). This works with USB Image Tool, AOMEI Backupper, Macrium and MiniTool on the fly.
To clone or backup a flash drive (removable disc) with HBS, the WinPE boot media is required.
RE: Clone or backup a flash drive (removable disc) - admin - 03-17-2025
(03-16-2025, 07:38 PM)Wilson Wrote: I often need to create backups or clones of flash drives (removable disc). This works with USB Image Tool, AOMEI Backupper, Macrium and MiniTool on the fly.
To clone or backup a flash drive (removable disc) with HBS, the WinPE boot media is required.
Hasleo Backup Suite uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology to implement Windows hot backup/cloning, but Microsoft does not allow VSS snapshots to be created for a removable drive, which is why we ask our customers to go into WinPE to back up/clone removable drives. This can of course be done by implementing a snapshot driver, however we currently have no way to obtain a driver signing certificate, for the specific reasons:
https://www.easyuefi.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=1644&pid=4900#pid4900
Not having a driver signing certificate prevents us from doing some other functions, such as image files protection.