- #Winclone 4 review windows 8.1#
- #Winclone 4 review windows 8#
- #Winclone 4 review windows 7#
- #Winclone 4 review mac#
I don't think this is a fault of WinClone, but an issue of the Mac hardware/software environment, and limitations of Windows itself which doesn't seem to encourage external installations. I have found that only about 1/3 of the enclosures I have tried were successful at hosting Windows externally. There have been several Thunderbolt enclosures found to work booting Windows identified by several posters on this forum in an attempt to prevent others from purchasing enclosures they have found to be a problem. Usually it seems the ones that will boot Windows on a Mac display a "BIOS like" message at the beginning of the boot sequence. Some vendors specify the incompatibility on their web site data sheets, most do not address it at all. This includes Thunderbolt enclosures, and even more so USB 3.0 enclosures. However, the exact SSD I created can be attached to a Thunderbolt enclosure and that Windows installation just created runs fine.Īs has been discussed in many threads here, not all external enclosures are compatible with BootCamp or booting Windows on a Mac. WinClone does a great job of loading the image to the drive, but it simply isn't reliable booting or running Windows on my iMac. I have spent the last few days unsuccessfully installing Windows to USB 3.0 drives. There are several threads here discussing good solutions and there are several other external Thunderbolt enclosures that members have recommended as reliable and easy to set up with Windows.
#Winclone 4 review windows 7#
rather than advising against using WinClone, readers should be warned against using USB 3.0 drives for their external Windows installations and instead seek out low cost Thunderbolt solutions such as the LaCie "Rugged" series or Seagate Thunderbolt Adapter series, both of which work quite well with Windows 7 and 8 using WinClone to initially create, and then backup the installation. It would seem that your anger is misdirected then. The page does not warn this is an unsupported process.Īll I can say about Winclone is 'DON'T BUY IT'. There is no warning that there might be a problem with USB drives, even when Winclone support claims it's a common issue.Ħ.
The page specifically lists USB drives as being compatible with the process.ĥ. The tutorial is specifically titled what Winclone support says Winclone doesn't do.Ĥ. I'm dumbfounded that they would dare suggest such a thing! My point:-ģ. Them: That page actually doesn't say we support migrating to an external drive with Winclone. Me: If it’s a common problem as you surmise then perhaps you should not say on this page that you support USB drives? This is a common problem with USB 3 HDD's. Unfortunately this is most likely due to the external drive going to sleep after being first unmounted. Them: It appears as though the external drive is going to sleep after Winclone mounts, and then un-mounts the drive, which is interrupting the restore process. If a company is going to treat it's customers with such contempt and in my opinion lie about the abilities of their product they do not deserve your custom.Īfter describing my problem and doing some simple fault finding this is how it went down:. So I contacted their support team and I couldn't believe the response so just had to share it with you here. After executing the relevant process in Winclone it appeared to freeze at the last stage 'Saving MBR'. So I purchased Winclone excited that this could make the process nice and easy.
#Winclone 4 review windows 8#
In fact they have a tutorial in their support section specifically titled 'Migrate Windows 8 to an External Drive using Winclone'. Winclone promises the ability to do this. I am aware that Bootcamp does not offer or support this procedure natively.
#Winclone 4 review windows 8.1#
I wanted to migrate my Bootcamp Windows 8.1 partition onto an external hard drive. I just thought I would post some experiences of Winclone 4.4 after having purchased it for a specific task.
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