Tell me guys am I being a numpty here
Ive got so much conflicting advice on this elementary subject that my brain is fried.
Taking a simple view, can I insert a spare sata drive same type as my C drive unit (new one to be called now called E drive) and then using some suitable s/w create a clone image of C onto E, assuming that all my data aka libraries are held on say hdd F a removable hdd or such. In the event of C hdd failure, can I swap in my E drive to the C slot and boot up as normal, or has M$ f****** this up for us
Macrion salesmen need not apply - they are remarkably coy about answering this simple question, very suspicious
pls note there are different names for this type of operation - cloning, iso disk image, system restore, boot disk, disk copy and so on, all very coy about details, black arts only known to nerds?
Sincere advice would be much appreciated
Robin
Ive got so much conflicting advice on this elementary subject that my brain is fried.
Taking a simple view, can I insert a spare sata drive same type as my C drive unit (new one to be called now called E drive) and then using some suitable s/w create a clone image of C onto E, assuming that all my data aka libraries are held on say hdd F a removable hdd or such. In the event of C hdd failure, can I swap in my E drive to the C slot and boot up as normal, or has M$ f****** this up for us
Macrion salesmen need not apply - they are remarkably coy about answering this simple question, very suspicious
pls note there are different names for this type of operation - cloning, iso disk image, system restore, boot disk, disk copy and so on, all very coy about details, black arts only known to nerds?
Sincere advice would be much appreciated
Robin
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- asus essentio i7
- CPU
- intel i7
- Motherboard
- h61
- Memory
- 6g
- Browser
- ff