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HDClone Files

PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 4:01 pm
by GaryW
Apologies if this has been asked before...

I used to use different software to clone my drives once I'd set them up and the stored data was in a format that I could access using something like WinRAR to browse the file system and extract any files that were stored there.
Is there a way to do this with HDClone?
I cloned my 'old' installation before reinstalling my laptop rather than risk losing something if I'd forgotten to save/store it and lo and behold there are a couple of files that will be stored in the old cloned file system that I had forgotten to back up so I could do with getting them out if possible
Thanks

Re: HDClone Files

PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:16 pm
by Alex
HDClone writes MFI files, and HDClone (all editions, except the Free Edition) ship a version of "Miray Virtual Disk", which makes these MFI files available as virtual drives under Windows.

In addition, HDClone Professional Edition will also write VHDX, VMDK etc. images, if desired. VHDX files can be accessed directly in Windows’ disk management as virtual drives.
And there is also the possibility of creating RAW images (each sector byte for byte in a single file), which can be accessed with WinRAR, 7zip and similar software. RAW images also can only be created with the Professional Edition.

All other editions only create MFI image files (with can be accessed through Miray Virtual Disk.