Hello niagarasystems,
About the boot problem you observed I would like to ask you to clarify the following points points:
1.) Did you create you self booting medium with the HDClone Boot setup? At the following address is a short tutorial about how to create an HDClone 6 self booting USB drive (also applies to other versions):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHtrszugEW42.) Are you able to boot from your USB drive when you connect it to another USB port type (USB 2/3, or front/back)?
3.) Does it make a difference when you use a different USB drive (USB 2/3, larger/smaller than 4 GB)?
4.) Does the Windows tool CheckDisk (chkdsk) find file system problems, when you check this USB drive with it? In order to run CheckDisk it is necessary to open a Windows command line as administrator. For that search for "cmd" in the Windows Start menu, right click on the result and run it as administrator. With the command "chkdsk c:" you would diagnose your C: drive. Therefore it is necessary to replace the letter 'c' with the drive letter of the self booting USB drive.
5.) Are you able to start HDClone there with the start mode "Compatible" or "Safe", by opening the extended boot options with <M> (More Options), while Symobi/HDClone is initializing (5 second count down). Please note, that you're still able to use all functions of HDClone in Safe mode.
6.) Or in Linux mode, by pressing the <L> key, while Symobi/HDClone is initializing (5 second count down)? For the Linux mode it also is necessary that the self booting medium was created with the respective option (requires an installation of the HDClone 7 Professional Edition or newer).
7.) Are you able to start HDClone in the normal boot mode from a self booting CD/DVD instead?
8.) Or from a respective virtual image of your USB drive, included as IDE drive in your virtual machine?
Sincerely,
Adrian Decker