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To: Gottfried who wrote (96352)	4/23/2017 1:30:30 PM
From: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110626

Usually a clone is made to a new hard drive for installation into the computer. Have you ever restored a clone thats on a another drive? Will it work since the clone is meant for a new disk not a backup disk.

To: Gottfried who wrote (96352)	4/23/2017 1:58:25 PM
From: goldworldnet	2 Recommendations Recommended By Gottfried nicewatch Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110626

Yes, an image is a little more risky because you can't verify it before doing a restore, although I haven't had a bad image yet, but if it becomes corrupted usually due to a faulty drive, the whole image becomes worthless. I use at least two drives for every computer I have. One drive is an installation archive and only has my operating system and installed software. The other drive is what I call my working drive, which is cloned from the first drive and is for daily use, but it also has documents and media. I backup my documents and media separately with the drag and drop method to copy files and folders to external drives. I only make images of my installation archive drive, because I don't want the images to get too big. Btw, I only use my working drive to test software and only if I like a program will I add it to my installation archive drive. Josh * * *