provides FAT, FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS and UDF formats, as well as Mac HFS/HFS+ or Unix Ext1
to 4 (provided specific drivers or utilities are installed).
ATTENTION: For market purposes, Macintosh version of KeyDuplicator is
no longer released nor sold.
NEW IN VERSION 2.5.0: This version introduces a new duplication method
using a sector-by-sector copy. This leads to making a real clone of your
original device.
The Disk Image Copy method works with an image of your original device (Pen-drive,
HDD, SSD, …). KeyDuplicatorII 2.5.0 helps you realise this image, simply selecting the
source device. This device may be Windows, Linux or Mac formatted, simple or multiple
volumes partitioned, even with mixed partition types (i.e. FAT32+NTFS). No needs to install
specific drivers or utilities for managing non Windows devices, as Image Copy method is
able to deal with unmounted devices. At Image restoration time, a real clone of the original
device is created, so that it’s impossible to mount together the original device and one of its
clone, or two clones of the same device. In such a case, Windows OS displays an error
message saying there is a Signature conflict problem! This is a normal and expected
behaviour. We will provide, as a setup in the next release, a way to copy devices with a
signature change, in order to obtain real clones but the signature and to be able to mount
two (or more) of them without conflict.
At launch time, the whole USB tree is scanned looking for DupliKey hubs and their
configuration. The Graphic User Interface displays found DupliKey hub(s), as well as
the
number of ports.
Then, each device plug in or unplug fires an event the software analyses and displays
graphically on screen, adding or removing a pen-drive on the matching hub and port.
In the
meantime, the line matching the number of the corresponding device is filled with
Volume name, total space, free space, used space, message (device serial number,
unformatted volume, unknown volume, progress bars for duplication and low-level format
tasks,…).
During the format/copy process, KeyDuplicator II detects all various failures like locked
keys, electrical or electronical problems, write protection status, inopportune unplug, full
volumes, … Key by key status is represented by a message. Due to the fact that each line is
linked to the device with the same number (i.e. line #10 = device #10), a simple click on
the
failed device(s) allows you to make its LED (if any) and its graphic representation
blinking and lets you see which one is (are) not correctly formatted or duplicated on
the
DupliKey system.
The copy counter adds and displays the amount of successfully copied keys. With
the
number of keys to be copied, it becomes easy to run batches of duplication and to see
the process execution. A jingle indicates the end of each duplication process. Of course this
jingle is different depending on whether the process is passed or failed.
A configuration file saves current job parameters: location of source data, number of
duplicated and to be copied pen-drives, name of duplicated volume, … This makes it very
simple to stop a duplication process and restart it later.
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