By whatever means I did that originally has long escaped my memory, however I did not recall it being a challenge. My wife's work laptop was painfully slow, so a couple years ago I cloned her traditional drive to an SSD. Is there another product which is more likely to be successful at cloning these partitions to the SSD? Is cloning an encrypted partition a bad idea, and should I simply avoid doing this? Has anyone successfully cloned a Win 7 partition which is encrypted with McAfee Endpoint Encryption v6.1?Īfter attempting several methods each within different cloning tools, even those suggested above (Clonezilla, Macrium Reflect, etc) with no luck, I finally came across a solution that worked very well, and required no special knowledge at all - HDD Raw Copy Tool 1.1. This product support thread said it should work, but I get the message clone failed when I try. The smaller partition 1 worked fine and cloned successfully since the smaller partition 1 is not encrypted, but the encrypted partition did not work. I tried booting from a recovery CD using Macrium Reflect version 5.0 to do a 'Forensic Copy' of the encrypted partition, but the clone failed with no error explanation. Partition 2: 102 GB (encrypted using McAfee) Original Source Drive (spinning 5400 rpm drive): These are the stats on the source drive (spinning) and the new target drive (ssd). However I am not capable of decrypting the drive. I have access to the laptop, meaning I can boot inside the Windows 7 OS, log into Windows as a user, and even install software.

The operating system is Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit. So I need to do a raw partition copy (bit-by-bit) of the encrypted partition(s) for any hope of this to work. However the original drive is encrypted using McAfee Endpoint Encryption 6.1. The plan is to replace the original drive with the new SSD inside the laptop. I have a corporate laptop with a slow 5400 rpm C: drive, and I want to clone the drive to an SSD drive to improve performance on the laptop.

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