Cloning 2 hard drives
Hi,
I'm a little confused about cloning and copying, and which is the best way to achieve what I want.
I'm trying to clone my whole computer to an external HDD to guard against any catastrophic event such as HDD failure or a ransomware attack. The problem is, that I have two hard drives, a 120GB SSD with the operating system (Windows 10) and a 1TB hard drive for programs, and from what I can make out, I can only clone one of them. From that, it seems that I should clone the system disk, and copy the programs disk. Would that be correct thinking, or am I missing something.
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks
OzBoz

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Thank you tuttle for a very quick response. Your comments were helpful and sorted that out for me. I was confused because I'm sure I read somewhere in help, that certain important information was not included in a backup, which was included in Cloning, and would cause problems. So, I'll go with the full disk backups. Thanks again.
OzBoz
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Do you recall where you read that? It's not correct.
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OzBoz,
I would recommend that you create your full disk backups (for both drives) using the bootable recovery media. This will insure that all your user settings will be retained in the backup such as any browser settings and previously created Windows restore points among a few other things which are by default excluded from a backup when using the Windows installed True Image application. Such data is not necessary for a restore of a disk image to be successful but can cause some inconvenience for the user.
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