Duplicating Files on Two Hard Drives to Make a Backup

[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)?