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Restore Points are not on clone copy

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I'm using the 2013 boot disk to clone my hard drive. I have discovered that when I check the clone copy the Restore Points are never on that drive.
Does anyone have an answer. Thanks

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Baba:

Windows Restore Points are maps of changed sectors on the disk, and they refer to the sectors by absolute location on the disk. If you clone a disk the files are not necessarily restored to the exact same sector locations on the cloned disk as they were on the source disk. When Windows boots, it detects this and deletes the restore points since they now are invalid. You will find a "Volsnap" error entry in the Windows System log saying something like "The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted upon detection" when this happens.

As far as I know, the only way that you can preserve the restore points and shadow copies is to create an image of the disk in sector-by-sector mode and then restore that image to the target disk in sector-by-sector mode, which forces the sectors to end up in the same absolute locations on the target disk.

Baba,

MVP Mark is correct about this issue.

In addition to Mark's comments concerning the "cloning" results, when you have a full disk image backup of a hard disk (not using Sector-by-Sector method), and have Windows Restore Points within the backup image, and then subsequently restore the backup image, the Windows Restore Points are often/usually deleted in this scenario as well, for the same reasons.

Exactly. For that reason I exclude the shadow copy files when creating a "normal" image since they will not survive restoration anyway. Excluding them from the image makes the image file a few GB smaller.