copying & replacing hd

[George]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

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.