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Old January 11th, 2008, 04:20 PM
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A clone is like it sounds. An exact duplicate of your hard drive. Cloning is for making a duplicate hard drive to simply drop in when your old one expires. You could not restore it from a bootable cd.
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Old January 12th, 2008, 02:04 AM
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A clone is like it sounds. An exact duplicate of your hard drive. Cloning is for making a duplicate hard drive to simply drop in when your old one expires. You could not restore it from a bootable cd.
Yes, I know. But this other guy says it may not work with a usb ext. HD.

I am still asking the question?

Will my cloned HD to a usb 1.0 ext. HD be sufficient protection?

yes or NO
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Old January 12th, 2008, 09:49 AM
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Just got through digging into my Norton Ghost manual, and Norton Ghost does support USB imaging and cloning. It will create a disaster boot disk which can be used for either mode. Never bothered before as I don't use a USB drive. To top it off, I'm using a five year old version(2003)

Guess "this other guy" wasn't familiar with Norton Ghost.(no insult intended, heck I've been using Norton for five years and never knew it was USB compatable )

So, Bryant, I'd say Yes to your question if you used Norton Ghost and created a disaster recovery disc. For any other program, read your manual.
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Old January 12th, 2008, 01:48 PM
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Yes, I know. But this other guy says it may not work with a usb ext. HD.

I am still asking the question?

Will my cloned HD to a usb 1.0 ext. HD be sufficient protection?

yes or NO
Only way your going to find out is try it. Obviously no one has actually used one like that, but theoretically it should work.
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Old January 12th, 2008, 02:21 PM
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Only way your going to find out is try it. Obviously no one has actually used one like that, but theoretically it should work.
Agree all the way.

I might add since this all started, other than here on this forum, I have seen no disctincion made between desktops or laptops when it comes to cloning or imaging other than the obvious physical limitations of the laptops which make outboard drive a necessity for the application to be used.

When you really think about it, unless dual boot is employed, laptops and desktops are both faced with the same problem. Without a boot recovery disc(which I have), my D: inboard backup drive is for all practical purposes as useless as a USB drive in the event of a drive crash.

Dale, correct me if I'm wrong, but with imaging I've come to the conclusion from all that's been said on the forums that one has to use the boot disc every time one wants to open the image file. If that's so, that seems like a big disadvantage where imaging is concerned.

Since a cloned drive is fully operational, I can clone between drives without using my boot disc. That's for disasters only, not day to day backing up. Only disadvantage I see with cloning is space, but as big as drives are getting, I don't think that's the problem it was back in the days of 40mg.drives.
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Old January 12th, 2008, 02:45 PM
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Will my cloned HD to a usb 1.0 ext. HD be sufficient protection?
You may have answered a question you had a while back. If you didn't make a typo and are still using USB 1.0, that probably accounts for your exceptionally slow transfer speed you experienced when cloning. You should consider an upgrade to USB 2.
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Old January 12th, 2008, 04:03 PM
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You may have answered a question you had a while back. If you didn't make a typo and are still using USB 1.0, that probably accounts for your exceptionally slow transfer speed you experienced when cloning. You should consider an upgrade to USB 2.
My latest Laptop has a USB2/eSATA dual input. Have a look at the specs for eSATA - very impressive
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Old January 12th, 2008, 04:36 PM
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Mike,

Read your post and looked around a bit.......amazing !!


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Old January 12th, 2008, 04:54 PM
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You may have answered a question you had a while back. If you didn't make a typo and are still using USB 1.0, that probably accounts for your exceptionally slow transfer speed you experienced when cloning. You should consider an upgrade to USB 2.
You're definitely right there. As soon as I get around to it I do plan to upgrade. I just wanted to make sure I do in fact have protection as I exist at the moment.

It appears from most on here that I do.
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