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The quickest and easiest way to get Winclone is to download it directly from twocanoes.com/winclone. Once you install the app and launch it for the first …

WIM is a common format Windows uses to distribute files and folders in a single, compressed archive. Winclone can import a Windows WIM file, such …

“Restore Image” restores a Winclone image created with the “Create Image from Volume” option. After restoring, Winclone will configure Windows to boot based on the …

Winclone 8 Pro makes it easy to create, customize and deploy Windows packages to Boot Camp partitions. Winclone 8 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 8 Pro.

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.

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.

In order to activate your license key, your Mac must be online at the time it is being activated. If you are activating Winclone on …