Lock a drive
During the cloning process you can lock the drive from where you wish to clone an image. This prevents interim changes to the drive being made during creation. The drive will no longer be displayed in Explorer and all applications will be closed. The drive is not locked by default.
- To lock a drive, enable it under Clone drive/Cloning options /Advanced/Read procedure
- If you leave a drive unlocked during an imaging, because, for instance, you want to continue working on the drive, the original status will be “cached”, i.e. stored in the working memory buffer. The working memory buffer is however restricted. You can see how much is available in the Memory buffer display.
Note: Locking a system partition is not possible. If you want to prevent temporary files from being written on a particular drive, make the entry NoSnapshotTmpFiles in the registry. More information can be found in the chapter Explanation of registry entries.
Please note: Should you exceed the available working memory, the current changes will be written directly to the target drive. This makes the image inconsistent and may render it unusable.
Note: To avoid overloading the memory buffer, close or stop all write procedures on the source drive, for example, running a defragmentation.