Hi friends ,
Does anyone know any tool for cloning SATA drives? As in mediatools it does not show drive model / serial it becomes difficult to clone two similar drives.
I have harware cloning tools for IDE drives , But i need a software which is like media tools professional. Another product Byteback is there . does anyone know better solution?
Thanks
Hddbug

Winhex will clone anything.

Media Tools Pro

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Media Tools with a SATA to IDE converter

Media tools works perfect with good SATA main boards
detects drives from BIOS perfectly and also works perfectly
using PATA to SATA cloning with good main boards.

Maybe you not using good chipset on main board - Use INTEL.

HI Guys

Thank you for your suggestions.
I am using Mediatools it clones SATA drives perfectly but the problem is it does not give drive parameters correctly

It give -
Ebios HDD 80 H
Model - Unknown
Serial - unknown
Firmware - unknown
This is possibly because it uses interrupt 13 bypassing bios . Now if i want to clone 2 SATA drives of 250 GB , it becomes difficult to identify which is source and which is destination drive so i am forced to use PATA drive as destination drive.

try this one...
HD Duplicator
http://www.copyrsoft.com/content/view/1/3/lang,en/

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HD Duplicator has worked very well for me. My big complaint is that it doesn't support many motherboards. On more than half the computers I have, it won't recognize drives in one way or another. Sometimes it won't recognize the SATA channel, sometimes it won't recognize any drive on the secondary channel. I've never found an IDE PCI card that would work, or wouldn't crash HD Duplicator. Otherwise, it's great. Hopefully the author updates it soon..

Hi i always use CopyR and it has worked fine for all SATA Drives.
good application.

It seems CopyR is very competative solutions like Media Tools professional . I dont know pricing of the products but i have requested them for it.
I will try to clone a hard disk using there free demo version ( may be i need to reduce size of source & target drive to fit into demo limitations) I will take digital signatures of both souce & destinations .If both matched , we can say copyr can make bit stream ( sector by sector ) clone image. Mediatools has very good interface & controls , you can literally select any head /cylinder position that means you can clone any selected part of the drive.lets pit copyr against mediatools.
Thanks
hddbug

What I really like with Copyr HD Duplicator that I didn't see in Media Tools Pro is the ability to power down the drive when needed. I paid $400. The hardware device to switch the power is $100, but I designed my own because I'm cheap