{"id":59658,"date":"2023-10-02T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T09:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/59658\/minitool-shadowmaker-no-more-cloning-in-the-free-version\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T09:46:14","slug":"minitool-shadowmaker-no-more-cloning-in-the-free-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/59658\/minitool-shadowmaker-no-more-cloning-in-the-free-version\/","title":{"rendered":"MiniTool ShadowMaker, no more cloning in the free version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloning of SSDs or hard disks with MiniTool ShadowMaker no longer possible in the free version.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some time ago I had created a <a href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/8905\/windows-10-auf-groessere-ssd-umziehen-klonen-der-ssd\/\">video\/blog article<\/a> on how to move Windows to a new SSD. For this I used the software &#8220;MiniTool ShadowMaker&#8221;. The free version is free and previously offered the function to clone hard disks as well. Directly in Windows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/clone_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1116\" height=\"541\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/clone_1.jpg 1116w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/clone_1-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/clone_1-1024x496.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/clone_1-768x372.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1116px) 100vw, 1116px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, there has been repeated feedback recently that this no longer works with the free version. In the meantime, I have also tested this. Unfortunately, the function is no longer included in the free version. In a way, this is of course understandable. In the end, the company also has to think economically and earn money. The single licence currently costs 79 euros.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the price is ok if the software is used as a backup solution. For a one-time cloning, it is too expensive. Free solutions are available here, such as RescueZilla.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/clone_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"746\" height=\"710\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/clone_2.png 746w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/clone_2-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloning of SSDs or hard disks with MiniTool ShadowMaker no longer possible in the free version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}