Duplicating Files on Two Hard Drives to Make a Backup

[ddouglass]

Bryant what Billyo did was Clone the drive to the larger one and then installed the larger one in place of the internal one. He didn't have to clone twice to get it.
Make sure your particular laptop is capable of using a larger drive and get the drive size that will work. Remember laptop drives are physically smaller than desktop drives.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Bryant what Billyo did was Clone the drive to the larger one and then installed the larger one in place of the internal one. He didn't have to clone twice to get it.
Make sure your particular laptop is capable of using a larger drive and get the drive size that will work. Remember laptop drives are physically smaller than desktop drives.

I see. I plan on doing it to this machine here. A desktop 40 gig HD. It is now cloned 32 of 40 gB onto a 250 external HD. Thatext. can't be used for anything else as when I clone it it says I have to delete everything off the drive first.

My question: Is how do I get that cloned material back on a newly installed HD(in the case of a failure or when I simply install a larger one)?

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by bryant

I see. I plan on doing it to this machine here. A desktop 40 gig HD. It is now cloned 32 of 40 gB onto a 250 external HD. Thatext. can't be used for anything else as when I clone it it says I have to delete everything off the drive first.

My question: Is how do I get that cloned material back on a newly installed HD(in the case of a failure or when I simply install a larger one)?

If it is a desktop computer just install the new drive as there should be room for another drive in the case. Clone C: drive directly to that one. Shut down, remove the old drive and plug the cable that was in the old drive into the new one. If it is cable select you are done if not then set the drive jumpers to make it a Primary. Fire it up and it should come up.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

If it is a desktop computer just install the new drive as there should be room for another drive in the case. Clone C: drive directly to that one. Shut down, remove the old drive and plug the cable that was in the old drive into the new one. If it is cable select you are done if not then set the drive jumpers to make it a Primary. Fire it up and it should come up.

And what if there isn't enough room for another HD?

[bryant]

Originally Posted by bryant

And what if there isn't enough room for another HD?

Also, this question remains "When you install that new larger internal HD ", it will have nothing on it. Will the computer automatically look for the USB HD with the cloned material, in order to get the computer running."?

[billyo]

Originally Posted by bryant

Also, this question remains "When you install that new larger internal HD ", it will have nothing on it. Will the computer automatically look for the USB HD with the cloned material, in order to get the computer running."?

Bryant.. no it will not look for it, first of all it will not run if you have an empty drive,you have to cloned ( copy ) your old hardrive first, after cloning removed the old drive and install the new ( cloned ) bigger drive,

[bryant]

Originally Posted by billyo

Bryant.. no it will not look for it, first of all it will not run if you have an empty drive,you have to cloned ( copy ) your old hardrive first, after cloning removed the old drive and install the new ( cloned ) bigger drive,

Yes, but the new bigger HD is an external one. How do I get that copied to a new larger internal one that hasn't been installed yet?