How to clone a drive to another drive

Question

I have a computer with a hard drive encrypted with Sophos SafeGuard and I would like to clone the drive to another drive (an SSD) for better performance.

Is this possible?

What tools are good to use?

Are there any things I should watch out for?

Thanks!

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ChrisD · Accepted Answer

Hi Antize, we haven't officially tested any imaging software alongside with SafeGuard Enterprise in the official test / qa cycle but you can of course always create an image of your disk to move on to another drive. There are certain things that you have  to keep in mind: - the disk is encrypted, so you can only perform sector by sector copies and the image cannot be compressed - so your target drive should be at the same size as your source drive. Also you must copy every sector - even those that are flagged as "bad" within the file system. Otherwise you wouldn't copy important parts from SafeGuard Enterprise (i.e. the POA), when taking the image. Please mind that I cannot give out any recommendation regarding imaging tools. Edit: We do support Lenovo Rescue and recovery of course ;) Cheers, Chris :29517

PntV · Answer

I have tried cloning with Acronis TrueImage 2018 using a sector by sector clone. The drive "successfully" cloned but Safeguard auto login no longer works. Instead I now receive a message stating that "Workstation is locked! Perform Challenge/Response to unlock."