Will this copy software encrypted drives?
878036
Fantastic question! Unfortunately, I don't know. I haven't tried. I think that cloning a software encrypted drive should working without any issue at all since the dock doesn't mount the drive and can do a forensic duplication, it should be a slam dunk. It's drives with hardware encryption, support built into the device, that I don't know what to expect from. In that case, I suspect that it would clone the sectors but I don't expect that the data would ever be readable from the destination device. That said, I don't have first hand experience with either config. I'm 99% sure the software encryption clone would work and the data would still be accessible as long as you have access to the decryption key. I wish I had a more certain answer.
878037
It will mirror a copy what ever is on the source drive provided that drive one is equal to or greater than drive one.
878038
Hello,Since it does a brute force, sector-by-sector copy of one disk to another, I'd say that it does. Whatever is on one disk is copied to the other disk.
385028
It creates an image of the drive you are copying from. It can not transfer just the OS.
1551813
It does a perfect clone of your existing drive. All operating system, applications, settings, keys, passwords and data come over automatically. Keep you r old hard drive as a backup
369912
You can access a hard drive with it to copy files on, but if some files are encrypted or have permission problems they might not tranfer correctly. So, I can't say 100% clone
1525240
Yes it will. Set it up at home. You will need to set up a password. Once done when you insert into any other PC you will use password and it will open up. You can then send files to the drive. Make sure you shutbit down before removing from the computer.
157399
I have full drive encryption on mine using TrueCrypt and have no problems at all. Just don't try to flash the drives firmware from inside Windows, because it will fail and you will damage your master boot record. It was easily fixable with the TrueCrypt rescue disk, but it was scary at first. When you want to flash the firmware on the drive, select the option to create a bootable CD.
1945242
No it can't clone the drive in that manner. Using that setup you can only copy from on drive to the next. Not clone
125256
I didn't find any security software on the drive and didn't have any problems copying any data to the drive. if you are having problems transferring data to the drive I suggest contacting Mushkin.
549610
Yes. As long as there's no cd-rom partition involved, all partitions will be copied when "whole media" option is selected for bit-for-bit copying.
251149
Yes you should be able to do this using something like Clonezilla or Accronis I believe. However, if you are cloning your main drive to the external, you will not be able to use it during that time of course.
33137
I'm fairly certain the answer is no. Usually a device can be reformatted via the operating system or an operating system's disk utility app to handle OS level encryption. For example: http://lifehacker.com/5677725/five-best-file-encryption-tools You can also optionally encrypt individual files via an app or the command-line. Openssl has this command-line utility for example: https://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/enc.html#EXAMPLES
384299
I would have to say yes. I set this up for a person to scan to a mapped drive.
2276887
You can certainly copy it. I do not use automated backup routines (except for C: drive) so cannot comment on these.
33136
No, the one I got at least was just a blank USB drive. But it is a good one. Truecrypt used to be a standard, but they stopped development. Bitlocker in Windows seems to work well.
369911
It would not by itself :). There are a few cloning softwares that would do that. Some ssd's would come with cloning software installed but I don't know if this one does. Also keep in mind the size of the data on the original HD not to exceed your drive capacity
1517183
sure, depending on which system you are using. With windows, you can copy your svc pak discs to the seagate pretty easily
2230112
With the encryption constantly enabled on this USB flash drive, I would think it would not work. Even with the Drive formatted, it would not work.