How Good is "Runtime's Shadow Copy" for cloning hard drives?

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How Good is "Runtime's Shadow Copy" for cloning hard drives?

I was thinking of downloading and trying it in the future. Anyone have experience with this program?

http://www.runtime.org/shadow-copy.htm

 

[Cromewell]

I have used similar programs that use the Shadow Copy Service. They work ok, I've never tried to clone a drive with it though, just backups of specific folders.

 

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What program do you use to clone hard drives Cromewell?

 

[Cromewell]

I've used Ghost and Acronis (the version included with Seatools). Of the 2, Acronis gave me much less greif.

 

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I just tried Runtime's Shadow Copy for cloning a hard drive. I tried it twice to no avail. I couldn't get Windows XP to start. It would get to the Windows XP splash screen and then freeze. Spotmau version 2009 is a much better program to clone a hard drive.