Failures are often encountered when using disk cloning software. Here is a summary of the problems commonly encountered when disk cloning.

Failed to read source disk

An error occurred while reading the source disk when cloning the disk. The conditions that cause the read to fail are:

The disk has physically bad sectors

If the disk is used for a long time, it will age, which will cause the read and write failure of the storage area. Use disk scan software to scan for bad sectors. In this case, first use the disk scanning software to detect whether the disk has bad sectors. If there are bad sectors, use the “Skip Bad Sectors” of WittyTool DiskClone to ignore the bad sectors.

Other software intercepts disk reads and writes

Most of the security software needs to filter the disk read and write, and will block its read and write for suspicious programs. If the disk scanning software does not scan bad sectors, it is most likely to be intercepted by security software. At this point, you need to close the security software or add the disk cloning software to the whitelist.

VSS failed to create snapshot point

WittyTool DiskClone needs to use Windows VSS to create a snapshot point. The reason for VSS failure may be insufficient free space in the source volume or an error in the file system. In this case, you can create a “Rescue Disk” and boot into WinPE to clone the disk.