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Originally Posted by hwheeler43
 I would say no. Again, my opinion. What I would do is make an image to your external. Make a bootable CD. You will then have lots of free space on your external for other things and you can update the image as often as you need to. Weekly, Monthly or even daily. I would then copy my entire songs folder to the Ext Hard Drive as well. If your internal should die you can hook up the external and boot from the bootable cd to restore the image to a new internal. The backup of the songs folder is just an extra thing in case you just need to restore it for some reason or want to copy it to your backup machine. When you create an image of the 40gb hard drive it will include everything on the drive to include operating system and all your settings. I have even imaged to cd's before. It took about 15 to 20 of them and I wouldn't recommend that. However, I did a test restore from them and all worked well. |
My other questions: If a bootable disc and an image work, why wouldn't a cloned disc work (isn't a clone an image PLUS a bootable disc)?
If I have a bootable disc already made (which I have), will the cloned disc work with the bootable disc (as you say the image does).
I ask this because these things are already in place.