Is by booting my cloning CD and then running the job/app/whatever to clone from the boot CD/USB. This way Windows is not running at all.
Examples I use are Clonezilla and Apricorn.
If you feel there is a flaw in Macrium, see if they have a support forum.
Bob
After a lot of research I chose Macrium Reflect (free) to create a clone of my C: drive. I bought a new hard drive and want to clone it monthly so if I have a hard disk failure I can just put the new one in and will have all my computer be identical to the day I did the image. (I am also backing up MyDocuments to a separate drive locally and to Sugarsync.)
I set up Reflect the way it shows in the tutorial and it fails repeatedly because something starts running in Windows7 during the process. Having done this a long time ago with Norton Ghost, I know that NG actually had you shut down the computer and it started in DOS mode so no other things could run.
So, my questions are these:
1) is it really possible to do a disk clone within Windows?
2) should I try it in Safe Mode?
3) what else can I do to ensure nothing starts running while the cloning is going on?
TIA.
Bob

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