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[jaylach]

Finally have a good clone of my Win 10 install from the main's current clone drive with 10 to a spin drive. Another is in progress.

I solved the failure issue by hitting the side of my head to wake up a dormant brain cell. Why was I trying to clone to an external when I have internal power and data SATA cables hanging out of the box? Plugged the drive into the internal cables and it went well.

Actually I thought it had failed when I tried booting to the new 10 clone but hung in and waited. Boot was successful but took forever and a day. Still it worked using Diskgenius. The current clone going on is with EaseUS ToDo. Never hurts to have a couple backups with different software.

I figure the extremely long boot from the new 10 clone was due to the target drive, not Diskgenius. I mean I cloned to a 640 GB 5400 RPM 2.5 inch drive that originally came with my Asus laptop that is probably over 14 years old. Not worried about the age of the drive as it has been just sitting without being used for 12-13 years. Really not worried about the extreme boot time as it is just a backup in case Win 11 fails. Boot time does not matter to me in this case as it is just to clone back to a system drive if needed.

Next step, assuming that the EaseUS clone is good going to a 2 TB Hitachi drive, will be to store the new clone drives and then clone my system Win 11 system install to the internal M.2 clone drive.

I don't blame Windows or the clone software for all this hassle. It was totally my fault for not totally thing things out. That is actually unusual for me as I often spend more time thinking through what I'm going to do than I do actually doing.

 

[MaloK]

I took a look but the free download link goes to a page that won't load due to the following error.
Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

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Actually I got it through their Google Drive link but it won.t clone to an external.

Their google drive .!!..??.. Not sure about that, but one of the best $ I put on a software.

My mom has windows 11; i hate the task bar and lack of a good old fashion start button. I think i'll stick to 10 - sides i only play games on 10.

Ten is the new Seven. And people are going back to 7... I don't understand...

I lost support for ten ... 14 days ago... They still deliver antivirus updates...

And I ran Windows 7 for 14 years without one.

Why would you even try, to go back to Windows 7 ?

... General Protection Fault error !

 

[jaylach]

Their google drive .!!..??.. Not sure about that, but one of the best $ I put on a software.


Ten is the new Seven. And people are going back to 7... I don't understand...

I lost support for ten ... 14 days ago... They still deliver antivirus updates...

And I ran Windows 7 for 14 years without one.

Why would you even try, to go back to Windows 7 ?

... General Protection Fault error !

I have no intention of going back to Win 7. I just consider it one of the best operating systems ever put out by Microsoft.

As to getting future updates for Win 10 their cutoff of 10/14/25 does not seem to be real. I got the extension for updates for 10 a week after the supposed cutoff. You DO need to have a Microsoft account to do this.

 

[jaylach]

Happy to say that I'm finally done with my clone backups.

I have two spin drives that will happily boot to Win 10 even if very slow.

I now, also, have a working clone of my Win 11 system drive internally.

Bottom line is that all is good and I have fully working clones of, both, Win 10 and 11. Since this was my goal I consider this a total success even though I could have done it easier if I had really thought things out. Still, it all ended out well and I'm happy. )