Duplicating Files on Two Hard Drives to Make a Backup

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Beavis

hey bryant its simple, its just software that clones your original hard drive to a larger hard drive. it copies your original hard drive exactly to the new one without having to re-install windows.

Yes, Beav, I understand that part. I have Acronis and I clone the internal 40 GB HD onto an external 250 gB HD.

But was wondering what Billyo meant by this:"
been using acronis to cloned all my original hhd and replaced them with a bigger hhd ."

What did he mean by replacing them with a bigger HD.

Does he mean that he clones the original drive that comes with the machine onto an external one (say USB); then swaps out that original HD with a larger internal HD, then copies the usb cloned backup onto the newly installed larger internal HD????

When you install that new larger internal HD "C" he computer, it will have nothing on it. Will the computer automatically look for the USB HD with the cloned material.