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Old May 12th, 2009, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by ddouglass View Post
Do you understand that an external drive is nothing more than an internal drive in a case that has a power source and a USB controler? If you don't have room for a second drive in the desktop (I can't imagine a case not big enough for at least 2 drives) then Clone to the External drive. Then physically remove that drive from its external case and install it in the desktop in place of the C: drive. And your done.
Now you can put a new drive into the external case and still have that too.
Oh, I finally read this after writing the post below. Thanx Dale. However, I thought that in the event of a failure I could just plug in the USB and be off and running as a backup at that point. But I guess not???
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