BackUp Your System With XXClone
Posted by cotojo on March 27, 2008
XXCLONE duplicates the whole Win NT, 2000 or XP system volume to another volume that will become ready to boot without a restore step.
You may boot the system from the clone volume by simply swapping the disks when a disaster strikes.
The cloned volume may be larger than the source volume, or even smaller as long as the volume data can fit.
You may copy from FAT to NTFS or vice versa. XXCLONE supports PATA, USB-disk and SATA. Ideal for periodic backup, or a one-time disk upgrade, or migration.
Unlike disk imaging tools, XXCLONE does not create an image file, but uses standard file copy procedures to copy the files to the new volume.
Therefore, you stay in Windows and may continue working while the cloning runs in the background.
With a full volume backup, files in the target volume will always de-fragmented automatically without the need for the time-consuming de-frag on the source.
Additional features include tools to duplicate the Volume ID, to repair non-bootable disk, and more. It supports command line arguments and suits batch file invocations, also.
Extremely easy to use with user-friendly GUI.
This is Freeware, although there is a licensed version available. The freeware version does not support incremental backups, but if you use it frequently to clone your system when it is in a safe and stable state the freeware version works very well.
You have many options, including making a Boot Diskette, use the Disk Management Tool to select Source Volume and Destination Volume.
XXCLONE has one very significant difference in its approach to the problem of cloning a Windows disk that makes it a class of its own.
XXCLONE views a Windows disk as a collection of files and directories and with a few exceptions, its access to data on the disk is carried out as a logical (file) access operations using the standard Windows file I/O Application Program Interface (API).
Nearly all of competing products on the market that are designed for disk cloning operations access the disk using physical, low-level (sector to sector) device I/O technique.
XXCLONE is a special purpose file-copy utility with extra features to make the target volume self-bootable (this portion of the operation still requires low-level disk I/O). It is not a disk-imaging tool that treats a disk as a collection of sectors.
Click here to download XXClone
Click here for Comprehensive Online Manual and Screenshots
Download size: 1.15Mb
Supports: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP
