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Backing up your entire drive: Cloning vs. imaging |
March 14, 2013
Felix Luke needs to back up his entire hard drive. He asked me to explain the differences between cloning and imaging.
Both cloning and imaging create an exact record of your drive or partition. I'm not just talking about the files, but the master boot record, allocation table, and everything else needed to boot and run your operating system.
This isn't necessary for protecting your data--a simple file backup will handle that job just fine. But should your hard drive crash or Windows become hopelessly corrupt, a clone or image backup can quickly get you back to work.
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