I clone the Source Drive to the Second Internal Drive and if some disaster happens to my Source Drive, I am covered. Hello again Steve, I think what you are telling me is that the only way I can really do what I want is with an Internal Hard Drive. When using ATIH to Recover your system, it will recover your complete Windows OS to a bare metal disk drive without the need to reinstall the Windows OS and all your programs and data etc. Tools like Laplink are great for copying files and folders but cannot be used to copy the actual Windows OS unless you have a product with the same capabilities of Acronis True Image. The Acronis Rescue Media is the primary means by which you can recover your system in the event of any problem that prevents you booting into the Windows OS system - the rescue media provides a totally standalone environment based on the Linux OS from which to perform the recovery back to a new totally blank or existing disk drive.

The key advantage of using backups is that you can store multiple backup files on your storage drive providing it is of a sufficient capacity. Backup images are used more to protect your data on your existing drives and keep these backups updated on a regular schedule - these are written into a container file akin to a zip type file which is then stored like any other file on your backup destination drive. This is mainly used when you want to replace the source drive with a new one, or to upgrade from a 'spinning' HDD to a solid-state SSD drive etc. Cloning, in a nutshell, is used only to create a duplicate copy of an entire disk drive, including all partitions, to a second disk drive of a similar size. It either wouldn't work or it might mess something up. If I create the DVD Rescue Media, does this bring over all of the information needed to make my programs work? I am assuming, no matter what, that I wouldn't clone back to the internal hard drive in any case. Just one question, or maybe 2 or 3 actually. I am the CEO of a small company, and IT work falls on me by default, not because I am averse in it. Thank you for taking the time to educate me. Please see KB document: which gives much more information on cloning including a video tutorial of the process. Windows does not support booting into Windows for USB disk drives. The USB drive does not boot and Windows fix procedures did not help. If anything happened, my system crash, Can i just go to bios and choose to boot up from this cloned HDD? To clone, you must put the original in the source and the new drive in the destination. This is complete offline installer and standalone setup for Acronis true image 2014.

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