Category: Winclone

Prepare Windows with Sysprep in a Virtual Machine

October 23, 2018

Introduction If a Windows restore does not start up due to new hardware not being detected, it can be resolved by running Sysprep. Sysprep will …

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Migrate Windows 10 to an External Drive

October 23, 2018

Introduction The focus of this document is on the process of migrating an existing Windows 10 Boot Camp partition from the internal drive to a …

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Winclone License Key Registration Issues

October 1, 2018

If you are trying to activate Winclone and receive an error message such as “Registration Error: Invalid License Key”, there are some steps you can take …

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Winclone 7.2 Update

September 21, 2018

The Winclone 7.2 update includes the following new features: Incremental Imaging Scheduler: Automatically update a Winclone image on a set schedule. Added the ability to …

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Restoring Winclone 7 (and later) Images to the 2018 MacBook Pro and 2017 iMac Pro (Macs with T2 Co-Processors)

September 16, 2018

Macs that have new T2 coprocessor may have issues booting from a restored Winclone image. These Macs include: 2018 MacBook Pro 2017 iMac Pro The …

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Resolving INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE Error after restoring Winclone image

August 19, 2018

When migrating Windows between different hardware or hard drives, Windows may start up with an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. This error is caused by the lack of …

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Selecting Winclone Pro or Winclone Pro Enterprise

July 5, 2018

Winclone Pro and Winclone Pro Enterprise both include the macOS application Winclone Pro. However, the licensing and support for the software is different. Winclone Pro …

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Deploying Boot Camp Using WinPE and MDT

June 5, 2018

Winclone 7 supports deploying Windows via Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) via booting to a Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE). A similar workflow can be applied for environments that deploy Windows images via SCCM. This document covers setting up MDT, creating the WINPE files, creating the Winclone package and booting into the WinPE environment.

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Creating, Customizing and Deploying Winclone Packages Using Winclone 7 Pro

June 5, 2018

Winclone 7 Pro makes it easy to create, customize and deploy Windows packages to Boot Camp partitions. Winclone 7 Pro makes it easy to create a Winclone package either from a SysPrep’ed image or from a WIM file on a Windows installation ISO. The image can be customized during deployment to set the computer name, create user accounts, run scripts, install drivers and much more. This documents explains how to create, customize and deploy a Winclone package using Winclone 7 Pro.

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Import WinPE

June 5, 2018

Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) is a minimal version of Windows used for deploying a full-featured Windows installation. A common workflow is to boot WinPE from a USB drive and image from System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) or Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). Using WinPE with Winclone allows you to create a local partition with a WinPE boot partition instead of needing to insert a USB drive in all machines.

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