![]() ![]() You could then restore that backup file to another internal SATA hard drive in the event that the orignal dies, needs to be replaced or upgraded.Ĭloning is intended to make an identical copy of the source drive on an a second drive of sufficient capacity. Only thing your flash drive is good for is using it as a backup location for a backup. Ultimately, a clone does you no good and neither would a backup and recovery to a UsB flash drive. ![]() Then go into computer management / diskmanagement and "initialize" the disk and assign it a drive letter.Īlternatively, use the free tool, minitool parition wizard and format it with that instead. (select the # of the one that representes your USB flash drive) used diskpart (launch command prompt by right clicking and run as admin) Pretty sure that cloning is not supported to a flash drive since flash drives are not bootable for Windows - suprised it would even allow it to be picked as the destination disk.Įven if the clone was successful (which it may be), Windows can only read the 1st partition of a paritioned flash drive (Windows limitation) so I suspect that's why you only see a small amount of data listed now. ![]()
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