Hasleo Backup Suite

Almighty1 · Aug 4, 2025

miw said:
EaseUS Partition Master includes both, but I haven't tried it yet.

I have tried it and it fixed my problem with secure boot many times as mentioned here:

How to fix this - Operating System Loader failed signature verification

Yesterday, I rebooted my system as soon as it got to the lock screen on my Dell XPS 15 9570 notebook and the system kept booting Dell SupportAssist instead of Windows 11 which was showing "Operating System Loader failed signature verification" as seen below: The only way I can boot into...

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Almighty1 · Aug 6, 2025

Froggie said:
All current versions have a time bomb in them. If you don't update your software in a timely manner, the current version will stop working. This is not a phone home thing, it is a real time bomb. When it goes PAID (not anticipated in the near future), I'm sure it will be removed.

The problem here assuming both the free and paid versions have the time bomb and the company no longer provides new versions or goes out of business, people would have problems restoring.

As for the paid version, they can also do the Foxit model. One option is pay once license and the other option is a subscription model which costs lest than the pay once license. I can't remember the exact pricing but I think the subscription costs less than 50% of the one time license fee.

And as far as reliability is concerned, let's assume both MR and Hasleo are 100% reliable from past and current experience but like the saying goes, past performance is no guarantee of future results so it can be that critical time when you need it when it actually fails while it works fine in all the stress tests that one did in the past. Since there are no certainties in life except death and taxes.

Froggie · Aug 6, 2025

Almighty1 said:
The problem here assuming both the free and paid versions have the time bomb and the company no longer provides new versions or goes out of business, people would have problems restoring.

Of course, but that's not the case. A lot of users don't realize that the time bomb is needed in the case of Hasleo's developers. They do not run PUBLIC or PRIVATE betas on their FREE software... the users of that software are their "beta testers" (that's basically why it's FREE at this stage). To ensure that testing continues on the version being developed, they use a time bomb to force you (their beta testers) to continue to move along their development timeline and continue testing newer versions of their software. When they consider it "production quality," the time bomb will be removed (no more beta testing) and it will officially be offered as either FREE, PERPETUAL license or SUBSCRIPTION... whatever their decision may be.

I don't believe any of their current products are of a SUBSCRIPTION nature, only FREE or PERPETUAL license. If you wanna use the product today, you are an "unofishul" beta tester until further notice.

From my use (over 3-years "testing" and working with the Devs), this product is in excellent shape. I believe they still wanna add some features (FileSystem support, etc.) so it should remain FREE for a bit, IMHO.

Almighty1 · Aug 7, 2025

mck said:
I've given up on using Hasleo Backup Suite Free. Here's what happened:

A friend's Win11 PC suddenly developed a problem of getting an "Invalid password" when doing a power on boot into Win11. No idea why that happened. We used the same password that she's been using and verified that it was correct by clicking "show password". After multiple tries, Win11 locked up and disabled its password entry. IOW, Win11 was now dead in the water.

*1 So to get her backup, I used the Hasleo emergency flash drive (that I had made for her on her Win11 PC when she first got it about 5 months ago) and restored her last system drive image backup. Mind bogglingly, the same "Invalid Password" problem happened on booting Win11! How could that have happened with a restore of a known good image backup that was done when her Win11 password was working fine?

*2 So I used the Win11 troubleshooter and reset Win11 to see if the PC could even run Win11. After the reset, the PC booted into Win11 OK. But as expected via the Win11 reset, she lost all of her installed programs. (She did not lose any of her data since I had set her up with a separate D drive for data only, when she first got this Win11 PC.)

THE HASLEO RESTORE PROBLEM:
Now that we knew that the PC could run Win11 OK (apparently not a hardware problem), I tried to restore the same system image backup that I just did in the "*1" paragraph above. I booted the emergency flash drive but this time when I selected "Restore", the link to the backup drive was grayed out. Why did this happen when it was OK in the *1 paragraph above???

I selected "Home" in Hasleo and there's an option there to initiate a restore. But when I clicked that restore option, Hasleo displayed an error code (don't remember what it was). So there was no way to initiate the restore of her last backup using the emergency flash drive. I rebooted into the emergency flash drive again but the same problems occurred. Why did those problems happen when I was able to do a restore in the *1 paragraph OK previously?

THE FIX:
I booted back into the reset version of Win11 (*2) and downloaded and installed Hasleo. In that version, I was able to select the Home tab and when I clicked the restore option, it worked! I restored the system image backup (*1) and it restored successfully.

Amazingly, the same invalid password problem occurred. But this time we noticed that in small letters there was an option to reset her Win11 password. So I clicked it and after answering the 3 Win11 security questions, was able to create a new Win11 password. Shutdown and on power on boot, the new Win11 password worked! She was backup and running fine on her restored Win11.

NOT SURE:
Not sure if the "reset password" option was on her original "Invalid Password" problem. It probably was but we didn't notice it due to it being in such small letters. Had we noticed it, we could have avoided doing the Hasleo restore.

SUMMARY:
She's been running fine on her restored Win11 for about 2 weeks now. No problems at all. Why the Hasleo emergency flash drive failed to allow doing a restore the second time is unknown. Thank goodness installing the latest version of Hasleo in the reset version of Win11 and running the restore from there worked. Am going back to the last free version of Macrium Reflect for both her and my PCs.

Hard to know what happened but glad the restore worked at the end and she didn't lose any data. You might want to post on their forums so at least they are aware of the issue and at least prevent something like this happening to others in the future even though you might not ever use Hasleo ever again. But it will still be helpful for Hasleo developers to have the information to determine if the problem is actually with Hasleo which they can fix or if the problem is elsewhere.

Anibor_11 · Aug 7, 2025

Security information may not be stored in the disk, but in the TPM or elsewhere. If this happens, the restore of an image of the disk may not solve the problem.

Almighty1 · Aug 7, 2025

Froggie said:
Of course, but that's not the case. A lot of users don't realize that the time bomb is needed in the case of Hasleo's developers. They do not run PUBLIC or PRIVATE betas on their FREE software... the users of that software are their "beta testers" (that's basically why it's FREE at this stage). To ensure that testing continues on the version being developed, they use a time bomb to force you (their beta testers) to continue to move along their development timeline and continue testing newer versions of their software. When they consider it "production quality," the time bomb will be removed (no more beta testing) and it will officially be offered as either FREE, PERPETUAL license or SUBSCRIPTION... whatever their decision may be.

I don't believe any of their current products are of a SUBSCRIPTION nature, only FREE or PERPETUAL license. If you wanna use the product today, you are an "unofishul" beta tester until further notice.

From my use (over 3-years "testing" and working with the Devs), this product is in excellent shape. I believe they still wanna add some features (FileSystem support, etc.) so it should remain FREE for a bit, IMHO.

That's true since the only way they can get people to use their product is by offering it for free to get feedback. This is similar to in 1995 when Internet access on leased lines were provided free for 2 years to organizations or entities and then since someone is already using it, the chances of them continuing to use it is high even at $1,000-$5,000/month including non-profit organizations. It's to gain market share from the markets they are interested in getting it from and even if they do charge, if they have like 90% of everything the competition has and the price is less than 90% of the competition, then they will still gain market share. It's similar to loss leader products first to gain the business and let the users spread the word. In reality, there is no such thing as bug free in software as there is always something to fix or otherwise the developers will not have jobs. Look at Windows, there are bug fixes and then there are new bugs and that will happen until the end of time.

As for the time bomb, is that done based on the system clock or is that based on it connecting to the server? If it's the former, I wonder what would happen if one disconnected from the internet after the version they are using has expired and then set the clock back to a earlier date/time just to use the program.

Yes, from reading the thread, you seem to be the one who is most competent in knowing their products. I haven't used any backup programs and only cloning programs and that's very infrequently so I will give Hasleo a shot as early as today or in the next few days with a 980GB of data internal 1TB Toshiba SSD which will be imaged to a 5TB Portable 2.5" external HDD and then restored immediately to the 4TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD sitting in a USB 3.2 Gen 2 SSD enclosure and then replacing the 1TB with the new 4TB drive and see how it goes on my notebook computer.

I am probably going to read the Hasleo Backup Suite thread at wildersseurityas well either before I attempt this or after I attempt this as I see you have been contributing a lot there too. I will probably post things that are helpful from that thread that is missing in this thread. Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge and input on Hasleo and backups in general.

Froggie · Aug 8, 2025

FYI, the time bomb does not require "phoning home"... BUT it's only in the Windows installed version, it does not exist in the WIM version that is used in their ISO, BOOT or UFD versions. As a result, off-line imaging/restoration may be completed regarding of the version used... assuming image formats have not changed along the way.

Almighty1 · Aug 10, 2025

From reading the thread on Wilderssecurity, am I correct that backup images can be mounted into Windows Explorer now instead of what was mentioned in this thread of using Hasleo itself only?

Froggie · Aug 10, 2025

Yes, that feature was added quite a while ago.

Almighty1 · Aug 10, 2025

Thanks @Froggie

A few hours ago, I attempted to do a backup of the 1TB Toshiba now known as Kioxia Internal SSD to an external USB Western Digital 5TB My Passport Portable HDD on my Dell XPS 15 9570 computer with a Intel i9-8950HK CPU after installing Hasleo Backup Suite v5.4.2.2 and did a full Disk Partition Backup and selected the main 1TB Internal SSD which checked all the boxes for the all the partitions on the drive which was what I wanted except it failed as follows:

The entire disk was selected so all 5 partitions were also selected as the purpose of my backup is to restore the image after backing up to the 4TB Samsung 990 Pro external SSD which is currently in a USB 3.2 Gen 2 enclosure before swapping the original 1TB Toshiba now known as Konxia SSD with the 4TB SSD in my notebook computer:

I have read this as well as other forums and it seems like I have only seen people using Hasleo Backup Suite with smaller GB sized partitions, at least not 1 TB SSD drives or partitions anywhere near 949.7GB in size. I noticed my MSR which was how the machine shipped from Dell is 128MB and not the 16MB maximum common size.

Josey Wales · Aug 10, 2025

I used Hasleo in the past but not with BitLocker, There may be an option that is needed for encrypted drives.

Almighty1 · Aug 10, 2025

Josey Wales said:
I used Hasleo in the past but not with BitLocker, There may be an option that is needed for encrypted drives.

Good point, I think that is a Dell OEM Recovery partition or something, it was how the system came. I already e-mailed Hasleo support so waiting for their response before closing Hasleo Backup Suite in case they need logs or anything else.

Josey Wales · Aug 10, 2025

Almighty1 said:
Good point, I think that is a Dell OEM Recovery partition or something, it was how the system came. I already e-mailed Hasleo support so waiting for their response before closing Hasleo Backup Suite in case they need logs or anything else.

I am unsure of what type of support they offer for the free version? But it is worth a shot,

Froggie · Aug 10, 2025

They've offered excellent support to date. You can always get the LOG and send it to them (most of the time they ask for it) using the little BOX with the DownArrow in it next to the MINIMIZE button.

Almighty1 · Aug 11, 2025

Josey Wales said:
I am unsure of what type of support they offer for the free version? But it is worth a shot,

There is only a free version at this time. They replied in 3.5 hours, -+ a few minutes and provided instructions on sending the log file which was what I did, exactly as @Froggie mentioned. I just sent them the logfile.

pewa · Aug 11, 2025

This image of Ghost brings back the memories. My very first backup software.

Stigg · Aug 11, 2025

Almighty1 said:
From reading the thread on Wilderssecurity, am I correct that backup images can be mounted into Windows Explorer now instead of what was mentioned in this thread of using Hasleo itself only?

There is a lot of handy information in the Wilders Security Forums | Hasleo Backup Suite thread, as well as lots more good information about other image applications in the Backup, Imaging & Disk Mgmt forum section. There is a wealth of information about image backup applications there.

Almighty1 · Aug 11, 2025

Josey Wales said:
I used Hasleo in the past but not with BitLocker, There may be an option that is needed for encrypted drives.

Thanks for your tip about it being the BitLocker encrypted drive and I did some further tests.
I just tried backing up each individual partition except Local Disk(C:) in different backups and the ESP(0), MSR(1), Windows RE tools(R:) all pass without issues. The one that has the failure is the DELLSUPPORT (BitLocker Encrypted)(4) which I am not even sure how to fix since when I look at my Microsoft Account page, it shows different Bitlocker Recovery keys but I don't know if that covers the hidden recovery partition like in this case and my C: is not Bitlocker encrypted. Yesterday, I assigned a drive letter (Z:) to that partition and I can see everything in that partition with Windows Explorer and even without the drive letter assignment, DIsk Genius can see the files and folders of that partition.

Macrium Reflect X Server appears to show the partition as unlocked and successfully backed it up without issues:

Josey Wales · Aug 11, 2025

Almighty1 said:
Thanks for your tip about it being the BitLocker encrypted drive and I did some further tests.
I just tried backing up each individual partition except Local Disk(C:) in different backups and the ESP(0), MSR(1), Windows RE tools(R:) all pass without issues. The one that has the failure is the DELLSUPPORT (BitLocker Encrypted)(4) which I am not even sure how to fix since when I look at my Microsoft Account page, it shows different Bitlocker Recovery keys but I don't know if that covers the hidden recovery partition like in this case and my C: is not Bitlocker encrypted. Yesterday, I assigned a drive letter (Z:) to that partition and I can see everything in that partition with Windows Explorer and even without the drive letter assignment, DIsk Genius can see the files and folders of that partition.

Macrium Reflect X Server appears to show the partition as unlocked and successfully backed it up without issues:

You are quite welcome. I prefer MR X.

Almighty1 · Aug 11, 2025

@Josey Wales - I guess I wanted to try Hasleo Backup Suite and at least found a issue that they could use which will benefit others, let's see how long it takes them to fix this. Hopefully soon since I am trying to migrate to the new 4TB SSD as I don't have enough space for the swap file, hibernation files on the current 1TB drive.

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