If you use a USB connected drive as a destination for the clone, to boot using the cloned drive, the drive will need to be removed from the USB caddy and connected to the system internally.įirst, select the ‘Create Backups’ tab, then select ‘Local Disks’. It is important to note that Windows cannot boot using a USB connected drive, this is a restriction that is imposed by Windows. You can clone to a drive installed in your computer or to a drive that is attached using a USB caddy. Cloning your drive will create a bootable copy of the source drive with the state it was in at the time the clone took place. This is useful if you are upgrading to a larger drive and can often be faster than imaging the source drive and restoring to the destination drive. Macrium has posted somewhere that one issue is that their geometry is incompatible with Reflect's image file format, and another issue is that Windows itself does not support making VSS snapshots of volumes that reside on removable storage class devices, which would prevent keeping those volumes online during imaging/cloning within Windows.Using Macrium Reflect, it is possible to clone an entire drive or specific partitions on a drive. Reflect does not support imaging or cloning removable storage class devices, although they can be the destination of an image backup job. If you've ever noticed that Windows uses different icons in "This PC / My Computer" for external hard drives compared to flash drives, those icons correspond to the two different classes.
The vast majority of flash drives are considered "removable storage". Hard drives and SSDs, even when connected via methods such as USB, are fixed disk class. The first is "fixed disk" and the second is "removable storage", although these days neither one is precisely accurate according to its name anymore. Building on Froggie's answer, there are two "classes" of storage.
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