Category: Version 8

Winclone 8 brings a host of new features and full compatibility with macOS Catalina. Learn more in this article about all the new features of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

Winclone 7 (and later) has the ability to create Winclone images in either file-based (WIM) or block-based mode. This article explains the difference between the two …

If you are having issues with initial boot after restoring a Winclone image to new hardware, you can inject basic drivers into the Winclone image using the DISM command line tool in Windows 10. This only works if Windows has been sysprep’ed prior to imaging.

Apple has implemented a new security feature, System Integrity Protection (SIP), starting with OS X 10.11.  SIP prevents anyone from altering the contents of files in key System folders and is designed to protect System files from malware and viruses.  SIP also affects third-party apps like Winclone that need to write to files now under protection of SIP.  If you are getting a message that the boot sector cannot be updated, or that SIP needs to be disabled, this article may help.