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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1831139" data-attributes="member: 396914">honestone33, I think just about all of the &quot;cloners&quot; can do either way. I use CCC and I know it can do both. However the default is file-by-file. Sector-by-sector is, as Charlie said, an old Windows technique that even Windows no longer uses. I can think of two possible uses for sector-by-sector:&nbsp; 1) To make a clone of an encrypted drive without having to unencrypt it first. Since it is blindly copying whatever is in the sector to the same sector on the copy, that clone process would not care about the encryption.&nbsp; 2) To make multiple simultaneous copies of a drive image. Think about a company that has employees who all have identical laptops and desktops with identical drive models. The company has ONE image of a standard installation and does a sector-by-sector copy of the master to multiple copies in parallel. Those drives could also be encrypted with a standard security password that is given to new employees who all have to change it to their password to open it up.&nbsp; And that's about all I can think of.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1831139, member: 396914"] honestone33, I think just about all of the "cloners" can do either way. I use CCC and I know it can do both. However the default is file-by-file. Sector-by-sector is, as Charlie said, an old Windows technique that even Windows no longer uses. I can think of two possible uses for sector-by-sector: 1) To make a clone of an encrypted drive without having to unencrypt it first. Since it is blindly copying whatever is in the sector to the same sector on the copy, that clone process would not care about the encryption. 2) To make multiple simultaneous copies of a drive image. Think about a company that has employees who all have identical laptops and desktops with identical drive models. The company has ONE image of a standard installation and does a sector-by-sector copy of the master to multiple copies in parallel. Those drives could also be encrypted with a standard security password that is given to new employees who all have to change it to their password to open it up. And that's about all I can think of. [/QUOTE]

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