Duplicating Files on Two Hard Drives to Make a Backup

[billyo]

Originally Posted by bryant

Just curious Billyo, if you clone a 40 gB HD onto a 250 gB HD, and then replace that 40 GB HD with a 500 HD internal HD, and then copy the cloned original 40 GB HD from the 250 GB onto that new 500 gB internal HD, will that 500 GB new HD STILL have 460 gB of extra space OR will it be equivalent to a 40 GB HD as the original was? Phew??

actually you wont get the total 500g you'll only get about 465 out of the 500, you can only cloned whatever the amount of the hhd is, so if you cloned a 40g into a 500g ( 465), you'll have 425g free space left, you can not cloned a bigger space hhd into a lesser drive, there are some bigger space hhd, that will come up the same space as the hhd that youre cloning..Western Digital is famous for that..if you are planning to clone make sure you get a ntfs drive, there are some i call it restrictions when using fat32 hhd for clonning..so if you get a fat32 500g and youre cloning a 40 gig you'll get the same 40g after cloning, you'll lose all that extra space..( for some reason,) my reason for cloning is ..so i can have more free space..and keep the original as a back -up just in case...i'm about to clone my mini laptop if i can find away to open the back cover of it..