XXClone
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XXCloneE copies the whole Windows NT, 2000, or XP system volume to another disk that will be ready to boot without a restore step. You may boot the system from the clone volume when disaster strikes. Need not go to the DOS mode. Operates in regular Windows environment.
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- Free Personal • Proprietary
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Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Windows
Discontinued
After the passing of Pixelab's director and operator, the company ceased business operations in March 2017. The development and support of its products, including Datman, XXCopy, and XXClone, has been discontinued. Last version of XXClone, 2.08.8, released in January 2017, can be still downloaded from the Wayback Machine.
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Proprietary and Free Personal product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.Rating
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Freeware Version: XP/Vista/Win7
Shareware plus: Win Servers 2003/2008/2011
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PS: A flawless working Tool to me since Years. =)
Usually I don't post comments related to software. Unless it has catastrophic consequences.
I've been using it for years on a XP machine and worked flawlessly. Used only once (ver2.07.2) on a new Win7 64 bit last year and did the job alright. When tried again ( April 2016 ) I ran into a forced update message and downloaded ver 2.08.1.
What happened next is deeply concerning. Tremendous hard-drive thrashing noise on install, wiped out ( never to be found again in Bin on anywhere else ) 90% of installed .exe files , associated files and folders in Program Files, at least one more in Program Files(86) .
Hopefully I had a backup and managed to restore them. Not sure what caused it but on a quick search I stumbled upon similar comments on CNet. Either it's a new Windows protection against cloning or just buggy software, so far no warning or fix on XXClone's website.
This comment concerns only ver 2.08.1.
Free version will no longer run.. Same story if you download from MajorGeeks. Links to Pro-Trial, Update, Subscription, or ordering New License are broken on Wayback Machine.
Unfortunately, the developer of XXClone has passed away and newer versions of the program are time-limited. That means that newer versions of the program have stopped working and this website will be a big help in finding a replacement for XXClone. I'm only giving XXClone 3 stars because it's time limited.
I have used XXClone & it is a good cloning software. I cloned my C: drive with WIndows 8.1 on it to another empty partition F: drive on the same hard disk (~45 minutes depending on the size of the C: partition) Then I ran the Make drive bootable from XXclone, & I suppose it did NOT work. So I manually opened cmd as Administrator & type the following commands one by one:
a. bcdboot.exe F:\Windows - here the F: drive is the target drive for the clone. b. bcdboot.exe F:\Windows /s F:
Running both the above commands made my F: drive Windows bootable & thus I had two bootable copies of the same OS in a DUAL BOOT configuration on the same laptop.
Good FREE alternative to CASPER software.
Works super-fast. I was migrating to a new HD and it took me just a few minutes to copy and replace; amazing!