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From: Paul 
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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 13:51:12 -0500
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

> Cloning _from within the OS you're running_ is IMO flaky to do, though 
> some utilities (certainly Macrium, I don't know about PM) claim to be 
> able to. 

I'd say at least 20-30 programs know how to do that.

VSS is part of the solution.

The first article implies it works only for NTFS.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy

Yet, the evidence is, it works for FAT32 too. It's just
hard finding documentation to that effect. All we have to
go on, is observations from users, like this one.

   
https://serverfault.com/questions/871979/unexpectedly-able-to-create-vss-shadow
-copy-for-fat32-volume

HTH,
     Paul
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