Duplicating Files on Two Hard Drives to Make a Backup

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by bryant

Also, I thought it was mentioned here before that if an internal "C" drive fails, but you have it cloned to an ext. usb HD, all you need to do is to plug it (ext usb HD) in and your back in business.

There must be some way to get an ext. HD (with a clone in it) copied to an internal HD that has nothing on it yet?

Or what would be the purpose?

Do you understand that an external drive is nothing more than an internal drive in a case that has a power source and a USB controler? If you don't have room for a second drive in the desktop (I can't imagine a case not big enough for at least 2 drives) then Clone to the External drive. Then physically remove that drive from its external case and install it in the desktop in place of the C: drive. And your done.
Now you can put a new drive into the external case and still have that too.