Brian Winfield

So can Clonezilla now clone easily a VeraCrypt encrypted HDD? I saw last year you seem to have fixed it? Any tests? There was an old post years back saying how to clone it using Macrium Reflect, but the last 2 steps seem like a road bump and maybe Clonezilla solves that for me? See below, it sounds related to what you said you fixed. 1) creation of a bootable WINPE pendrive containing Macrium and Veracyrpt 2) Forensic clone is required 3) Restoring the boot/bcd file 4) Restoring the original DISK...

Brian (i'm also brian lol), this thread was great, I feel like you are a copy of exactly me! This thread was packed full of repeated questions, and info, it was a blast. You really pushed your question deep (I used to go that far, but stopped). Was so funny and better than any thing I've ever searched on here for which some of the time turned up 0 info lol (there are quite some questions that, I have had a hard time finding an answer to). I am however mostly content and got some answers though. I...

So I searched the posted topics and could not find enough data to answer my question. I have two of the same 4TB seagate HDD model, and I want to clone my encrypted system 4TB HDD to the empty 4TB HDD to get an exact clone, using Macrium Reflect. I plan to connect the 2 drives side by side to my laptop in the middle of them, which the laptop is unecypted. I don't want to decrypt my 4TB to do this though. Apparently, Gary, if he was answering a question that really was my question, said something...

Ok thanks for walking me through this, it is much clearer now / answers my question. Thanks.

But is my 2nd paragraph correct that no un-encrypted files ever pass through the cord / cable when dropping files from my tower into a container stationed on the external drive?

Ok let me improve that paragraph since the paragraph kind of was all one question. The 2nd paragraph asks it in a different way, you could skip the first paragraph if want: As for writing from my full system encrypted tower (drive#1) to the attached external drive's (drive#2) on my carpet (its VeraCrypt container), is it correct that, even IF (which I think they are) it is decytped and re-encrypted with drive#2's password, this still has to happen on my tower in the main system's RAM (to encrypt...

Ok let me improve that paragraph since the paragraph kind of was all one question: As for writing from my full system encrypted tower (drive#1) to the attached external drive's (drive#2) on my carpet (its VeraCrypt container), is it correct that, even IF (which I think they are) it is decytped and re-encrypted with drive#2's password, this still has to happen on my tower in the main system's RAM (to encrypt or decrypt them)? So no actual files leave my tower when I drop them into the container on...

So for reading from my attached drive container, I think the encrypted files come off it and go into my tower and only then there and in RAM are they decrypted, which is safe then. Right? As for writing from my tower(drive#1) to the attached drive(drive#2), is it correct that, even IF (which I think they are) it is decytped and re-encrypted with drive#2's password, this still has to happen on my tower in the main system's RAM (to encrypt or decrypt them)? So no actual files leave my tower? In this...