About fast cloning & disk signature for MBR disks, disk GUID, & partition GUIDs...

[SwimmeRM]

Hello all,

could anyone please be so kind to give me a definitive confirmation that Disk Clone fast cloning also indeed properly manage a fully complete and exact copy of disk signature (for MBR disks), disk GUID, & partition GUIDs (for GPT disks) ?

I'm indeed already expecting this to happen properly, but this weird doubt came to my mind after carefully reading following sentence excerpted from page '[Solved] How to Clone a Disk to Another SSD/HDD Sector by Sector' :
"Fast cloning only copies the sectors containing data from the source disk to the destination disk, making the process very fast. In contrast, sector-by-sector cloning copies all sectors on the source disk, one by one, to the destination disk. As a result, the destination disk is an exact copy of the source disk after the successful cloning, including the disk signature for MBR disks, disk GUID, and partition GUIDs for GPT disks. If you are worried that fast cloning may cause data loss, sector-by-sector cloning is your best option."
Because of above wording it may, unfortunately, even seem that "... disk signature for MBR disks, disk GUID, and partition GUIDs for GPT disks." might just be included in the cloning process only when sector-by-sector is the chosen cloning method, "...in contrast..." with what instead fast cloning copies (since it "...only copies the sectors containing data from the source disk to the destination disk.").

P.S. I know that by asking to have such additional clarification I may a little look like I'm playing devil's advocate, but I believe that above message is not so fully crystal clear as it should instead be, and so I'd like to suggest to also add there a little clarification that might possibly avoid anyone else to have a doubt similar to the one I had.   0:-) 

Many thanks in advance for your so kind attention.

Best Regards
Rob

[admin]

If the 'Sector by Sector Entire Disk' option is not selected, the program will only clone the used sectors to the target disk. The target disk's disk signature and GUID will be different from the source disk, and the partition GUIDs will also change.

In fact, fast cloning is safe and does not cause data loss. It's just that some users prefer sector-by-sector cloning.

[SwimmeRM]

If the 'Sector by Sector Entire Disk' option is not selected, the program will only clone the used sectors to the target disk. The target disk's disk signature and GUID will be different from the source disk, and the partition GUIDs will also change.

In fact, fast cloning is safe and does not cause data loss. It's just that some users prefer sector-by-sector cloning.

I see, but then so doing final result is indeed not a "true fast cloning", it's just a "fast cloning with some known minor differences" (that so far are also not very explicitly confirmed).
But is there any specific reason why so far you still haven't thought also about implementing a real "true fast cloning" so that target disk's disk signature and GUID and then also partition GUIDs will still be identical to original source disk ones and will not change ?

Thanks for your so kind attention.

Best Regards
Rob