Cloning Encrypted Windows Drive

[Bridgyguy]

Hi there, i have a Pro version of Hasleo Disk Clone, and i was needing to seek help about the following scenario.

1: Clone in Live Mode.
I have my Dell PC windows drive (500gb NVMe) encrypted using Veracrypt, it apparently creates a special Pre-Boot Authentication Loader on the drive, and Hasleo will Clone the drive to a spare empty NVMe drive connected by a USB enclosure as Drive E, but when i put this new cloned drive in the Dell PC, it will not boot because there is no Pre-Boot password screen to type in my Veracrypt password, and the PC just sits there with a blank screen.

2: Clone in Offline Mode.
I then booted my PC using a non encrypted NVMe drive, i then connected my Dell PC Encrypted Windows drive using a USB enclosure, and gave it Drive letter E, i then connected another empty NVMe drive using another USB enclosure and gave it Drive F.
I then used Hasleo to Clone the encrypted windows drive (E) over to the empty drive (F) and the clone ran as normal, but this new cloned drive will not boot either.

Can someone please confirm if both of these 2 scenarios are true that neither method will allow the cloned drives to boot when put in my Computer.

When i did a google search i got the results as shown in the 2 attachments.

Cheers.

[admin]

I am sorry to say that Hasleo Disk Clone does not apply any special handling for VeraCrypt. Therefore, cloning a VeraCrypt-encrypted Windows system in Live mode may cause the cloned system to fail to boot properly.

We recommend that you first decrypt the drive and then perform the cloning operation. This should generally ensure that the cloned Windows system can boot successfully. Alternatively, you can perform an offline full-disk clone with the "Sector by sector clone entire disk" option enabled. After completion, please check whether Windows can boot normally from the target disk.

[Bridgyguy]

Hi, thanks for the reply, do you work for Hasleo support because i got the exact same reply via email from them yesterday.

I had no luck booting any of the encrypted drives that were cloned with Hasleo using all the different modes that were suggested to me, i got the following error on my screen when trying to boot them all.



I then decrypted the encrypted Dell Windows drive, when it completed decrypting, it required a restart, but after booting back up, my PC got the following things appear on the screen then it went to the Dell splash screen, then to my desktop.

It only did this the one time, after that the PC would restart normally.



After that first screen, it moved to the next screen for about 1.5 to 2 minutes.



Then i just had to press Enter to to close the black box



Then it booted up normally.