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Originally Posted by hwheeler43
 When you Clone a drive you are making a boot drive copy of your existing drive. It cannot have other files on it. When you create an image you are taking a snapsot of your entire hard drive to an image file that can be restored to a new hard drive by booting your computer from a cd that you create and then restoring the image to the new hard drive. This image can be used much like a restore cd except you have all your settings and software on it. I hope this explanation is not too confusing. Also, Acronis does not need an empty drive to do an image. Just for cloning a drive. |
acronis has both clone and image, so what would be the best and easy way of doing it..