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Settings for Cloning drives

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2. If you leave a drive unlocked during cloning, because, for instance, you want to continue working on the drive,

the original status will be “cached”, i.e. stored in the working memory buffer. The working memory buffer is how-

ever restricted. You can see how much is available in the Memory buffer display.

Note: Locking a system partition is not possible. If you want to prevent temporary files from being written on a par-

ticular drive, make the entry NoSnapshotTmpFiles in the registry. More information can be found in the chapter

Explanation of registry entries.

Please note: Should you exceed the available working memory, the current changes will be written directly to the

target drive. This makes the image inconsistent and may render it unusable.

Note: To avoid overloading the memory buffer, close or stop all write procedures on the source drive, for example,

running a defragmentation.

Ignoring bad sectors

You can specify under Clone drive/Cloning options/Advanced whether the read process should be aborted or con-

tinued in case of error. If continued, the bad sector will be saved in the copy as an unused sector. The remaining data

that are still readable will be present in the image.

Write over unused sectors

You can specify that unused sectors of the source drive be overwritten with zeros under Clone drive/Cloning

options/Advanced/Clear unused sectors from old data. By enabling this function, you will not be able to restore

data of the empty areas from the drive clone.

This function will be run during the next clone activity of the selected drive.

Tip: If you delete data normally under Windows, it still remains intact on the hard disk. The data will no longer be

accessed by the operating system and remains invisible for the user. The space is declared as free area by Win-

dows. This data can still be restored using special software. To make sure that nobody can restore data from the

drive clone, enable the function Clear unused sectors from old data. After overwriting, not even specialized data

recovery software will be able to restore this deleted data.

Force writing method

Under Clone drive/Cloning options/Advanced you can force the writing method. "Write to drive" is the default writing

method used for the "Used sector" and "Forensic" cloning methods . "Write directly to disk" is the only writing method

used during "Direct Forensic" cloning. You can, however, force a user-defined writing method.

l Enable Force writing method and select the respective method.

Using the option Write to drive, data will be written to the drive with help from the operating system, and not from the

offset to the disk.

With the option Write directly to disk, you can decide whether a restoration should be written directly to a disk, bypass-

ing the file system driver. This function applies especially to encrypted disks and is required for restoring any disks that

have been imaged using the direct forensic method.

Create a profile for cloning

Under Clone drive/Cloning options, you can reset the default settings for cloning or select an existing profile.

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