[stickmansam]

I wonder if anyone could help me out with this. I am not good with computers. When i have selected all the drives for hd clone, i get to the start page and it says that i don't have exclusive read access on the c drive which is the source. I select copy with out exclusive access, right. Then a new window pops up. it says that it dosen't have exclusive write access. So i go to bios and change the write protection to disabled. I try again and the same thing happens. do any of you know why this happens and how to fix it?
Thanks in Advance!

[Alex]

in order to write to a disc (and therefore have unlimited write access) you must not have any application accessing the target drive; this includes any open explorer windows. The warning about the write access lets you retry the action, so you can close other running applications and do it again.

As for the source drive: since the system is always in use, you can never exclusively access the C: drive. To do this, use the self-booting version of HDClone.

[Steve H]

I had the same error message trying to
write to a drive on my usb port.

i was trying to copy image to disk with HDclone 3.7 basic edition.

i had never seen this message until I tried copying with an image.

I reformatted the target drive to NTFS and the error message went away.
I presume this helped, but am not certain as to why...

Steve H.

[Alex]

If you have the target drive open say in an explorer window (or somewhere down the 'My Computer' window), the drive is considered open and cannot be accessed exclusively. So, even with the explorer or 'My Computer' being no application per se, having these windows open still causes the described situation. It is very likely that after formatting, you closed the window or did not open it in any explorer window, therefore the exclusive access was granted.

[Reg van der Bank]

I have the same problem with the HD CLONE Professional edition plus it takes very long to clone and then it is not bootable, please help!

[Alex]

Simply speaking: cloning the system drive with the Windows Variant always has the problem, that there cannot be any exclusive read access (since windows always has some files, e.g. the pagefile and others open), so you have to either use the boot variant (though this variant can't probably access all drives, especially on RAID devices) or wait for the next major version of HDClone, where this will be possible (using a special service called "Shadow Copy").

[Edd F]

I am having the same problem with drives not having exclusive access when running HDClone from Windows but then drives not being "seen" when running from the CD Boot option. I have a Dell PowerEdge Windows 2003 Server running SAS RAID 1 (mirroring) but the System Partition (C:) is running out of space.
Does anyone know if there is a workaround or when this "Shadow Copy" feature will be available?
Thanks in advance.
Edd