Help making backup of a bootable Hasleo drive

[laug4597]

I have a bootalbe USB drive made with Hasleo. I know I can clone this to another USB drive to have an exact copy. What I need to do is back this up to a file that will allow me to create a bootable USB drive from that file. Creating a system backup of the bootable drive with the backup suite and trying to make a new bootable drive from that image file  ( as shown here https://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/resour...image.html) doesn't seem to work. Using a USB  drive of the exact same size gives an error that the drive is too small when I try to make a WinToGo from that image file . Yet I can clone to that drive to the new USB with no problem. Is there a way to backup of a WinToGo drive to a file and make a new WinToGo drive from that file?

[admin]

Creating a system backup of the bootable drive with the backup suite and trying to make a new bootable drive from that image file  ( as shown here https://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/resour...image.html) doesn't seem to work.

You said “it doesn't seem to work”, can you provide more information about the problem?

[laug4597]

I have a 1 TB SanDisk extreme. I made it a WindowsToGo bootable drive mbr for bios and UEFI. Lets call that disk A. I installed windows 10 on it and a bunch of software I use for trading stocks and investing. Using Hasleo Backup Suite, I backed up disk A as system backup ( backs up the boot partition and the system partition). It ( disk A) was backed up to a file (System Backup 20250526151821_20250526_Full_V1_1.DBI) on a large capacity external hard drive. I backed it up using low compression. To make sure the back up will work, I then took a new 1TB SanDisk extreme . Lets call that disk B. I tried to make disk B a new bootable drive from the backup image I made of disk A. I selected the image file of the disk A backup ( System Backup 20250526151821_20250526_Full_V1_1.DBI) as the installation source. I get an error that the destination drive (disk B) in not large enough. Disk A and disk B are the exact same size. The program will allow me to clone disk A to disk B. After cloning, B is then bootable and an exact copy of disk A. But I don't want that. I don't want to have to keep a physical disk in cass I need to clone it as a backup precaution. The program will not allow me me to make disk B a bootable disk from the backup image of disk A. And that's what I want. I hope this is more clear.

[admin]

I have a 1 TB SanDisk extreme. I made it a WindowsToGo bootable drive mbr for bios and UEFI. Lets call that disk A.  I installed windows 10 on it and a bunch of software I use for trading stocks  and investing. Using Hasleo Backup Suite, I  backed up disk A  as system backup ( backs up the boot partition and the system partition). It ( disk A) was backed up to a file (System Backup 20250526151821_20250526_Full_V1_1.DBI) on a large capacity external hard drive. I backed it up using low compression. To make sure the back up will work, I then took a new 1TB SanDisk extreme . Lets call that disk B.  I tried to make disk B  a new bootable drive from the backup image I made of disk A. I selected the image file of the  disk A backup ( System Backup 20250526151821_20250526_Full_V1_1.DBI)  as the installation source. I get an error that the destination drive (disk B) in not large enough.  Disk A and disk B are the exact same size. The program will allow me to clone disk A to disk B.  After cloning,  B is then bootable and an exact copy of disk A. But I don't want  that. I don't want to have to keep a physical disk in cass I  need to clone it as a backup precaution. The program will not allow me me to make disk B a bootable disk from the backup image of disk A. And that's what I want. I hope this is more clear.

Can you send some screenshots to [email protected] to describe the issue? And please open the save log file dialog ("" > "Save log file") and save the log file, then send the log file to us.

[Balthazarn]

I have a bootalbe USB drive made with Hasleo. I know I can clone this to another USB drive to have an exact copy. What I need to do is back this up to a file that will allow me to create a bootable USB drive from that file. Creating a system backup of the bootable drive with the backup suite and trying to make a new bootable drive from that image file  ( as shown here https://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/resour...image.htmldrive mad) doesn't seem to work. Using a USB  drive of the exact same size gives an error that the drive is too small when I try to make a WinToGo from that image file . Yet I can clone to that drive to the new USB with no problem. Is there a way to backup of a WinToGo drive to a file and make a new WinToGo drive from that file?

What is the size of the backup image file (System Backup 20250526151821_20250526_Full_V1_1.DBI)? Is it significantly smaller than the capacity of disk B? 

[admin]

I have a bootalbe USB drive made with Hasleo. I know I can clone this to another USB drive to have an exact copy. What I need to do is back this up to a file that will allow me to create a bootable USB drive from that file. Creating a system backup of the bootable drive with the backup suite and trying to make a new bootable drive from that image file  ( as shown here https://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/resour...image.htmldrive mad) doesn't seem to work. Using a USB  drive of the exact same size gives an error that the drive is too small when I try to make a WinToGo from that image file . Yet I can clone to that drive to the new USB with no problem. Is there a way to backup of a WinToGo drive to a file and make a new WinToGo drive from that file?

What is the size of the backup image file (System Backup 20250526151821_20250526_Full_V1_1.DBI)? Is it significantly smaller than the capacity of disk B? 

Yes, its size is typically smaller than the space used on the source drive because the data is usually compressed.

[godakiss]

Yes, it’s possible—but you need a full disk image (sector-based) and a tool that restores it directly, not WinToUSB, which isn’t designed for restoring arbitrary WinToGo images.