How to easily clone entire encrypted drive
I wrote detailed guide about it on my forum here = https://sethioz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13323
Just read that guide. those methods will work for any storage device that you can connect to PC or have adapter for. technically you can clone even sd cards.
i recently cloned my primary bootable truecrypt encrypted ssd, so i know how it works.
that guide is based on my personal experience, not some typical copy-pasted nonsense that you find around the web these days. i'm so annoyed with those "experts" who copy-paste a "tutorial" without even testing what they write in there, it's like that "telephone game" that kids play, where you whisper a word from one person to another and then last person says it out loud, it always gets twisted, even adults get it wrong. that's how those tutorials nowdays are, they just copy paste from eachother and make small changes, but that will twist those "tutorials" into some total nonsense. i don't do that ... i write my own by going thru the process and therefore making sure it actually works. BTW that image i posted, those are my actual SSDs on it. I made that image in photoshop specifically for this post, those are the kind of lenghts i go into when writing a tutorial.
anyway, one free tool i mentioned in that guide can also compress the backup so 200gb will take about 100gb and cloning speed is much faster, also it supports encryption so your backup will be encrypted and inaccessible without password.
Comments (2)
Wait! Are you telling me you actually TEST your tutorials before releasing them?!! +100 IQ 👍
umm yea ... always have, why would i copy-paste a tutorial if i never verified that it even works? everything i post, is from personal experience. i hated those phone "hacking" tutorials, they were so poorly written. i have always unlocked phones, even the basic ones. back in the days some networks did promos by selling certain phones for cheap, but they locked it to their network, so you had hack them. i always looked for tutorials before reverse engineering them myself and those tutorials were always so badly written. they're never specific, they never say if you need to hold the button for 3 seconds and release and press again or press it twice in row ..etc. those details are extremely important, sometimes you have to press the button 2 times really fast, while sometimes you have to press and hold for 3-4 seconds, then release and press again. this docking station had same issue in its own manual, that's why i got it wrong for first 2 times. manual said "hold the clone button for 3 seconds until 25% LED lights up, then release and press the clone button again to confirm cloning", but this is WRONG!! 25% LED doesn't turn on til you RELEASE, i was holding it for 10 seconds and thinking ... WHY DOESN'T IT LIGHT UP?? .. it's cuz their own manual is wrong, fucking imbeciles. you have to release and THEN LED lights up and as i explained in tutorial, you have to quickly press it again, like within 1 second or less. it's a failsafe so you don't accidentally clone, but manual is so poorly written. 150+ actually