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Hello
I am trying to clone the hdd which is connected to ATA1 and the destination device chosen USB HDD. The error message at log

"Writing error on destination drive!
TWriteSysDriveThread.Msg -> Catastrophic failure
Write error on destination drive!
Writing error on destination drive!
TWriteSysDriveThread.Msg -> Catastrophic failure
Write error on destination drive!
Writing error on destination drive!
TWriteSysDriveThread.Msg -> Catastrophic failure
Write error on destination drive!
Writing error on destination drive!
TWriteSysDriveThread.Msg -> Catastrophic failure "

How we can enable direct access to USB hdd in WINDOWS7 environment.

thanks in advance

VENKAT

Hi,

I'm not sure, but why don't you use regular SATA drives for imaging?

I see this error (and similar) in Win7 when using destination disk with valid MBR.

If I use erased disk as destination I never see message.

I assume it is related to windows 7 locking access to partitioned volumes, but Im not sure

Did you enable the "modify MBR" checkbox when picking the destination drive? I believe that will make it so Windows won't try to access the drive.