Miray Forum

I've been using HD Clone Professional for several weeks and it works great most of the time.

Question: The original drive is a 160 GB WD MY PASSPORT. I want to clone it to another 160 GB MY PASSPORT drive.

When I boot from a CD (which I've found to be more stable), how can I tell which drive is the original/Source and which is the blank/Target drive? They appear identical and I don't want to wipe the original drive.

Please advise.

- John

At the current version, the serial number of USB devices seems not to be shown by HDClone, so this is a bummer. But you can do the following:
Start HDClone with your source drive connected and click on 'Next>'.
You'll see the USB drive (and some other IDE/AHCI drives if installed). Click on the USB drive and note the Controller, Channel/Device and LUN number (i.e. something like USB (EHCI), 1 and 0.

Then connect the target USB drive, click on back and next again, and the new drive will also show. As drives are enumerated in the order of their connection time, the new drive will show below the source drive and have a different number, your source drive retains the old number you noticed when first connecting.

I'll forward the request for the complete display of USB serial numbers in HDClone to the developers, I'm sure it's no big deal incorporating this information in the next update.