Clone tow laptops to one external Hard drive
I have two laptops both had their own external hard drives that I would image to using acronis. the one external drive died. I am wondering if I can use the one remaining external drive to image both laptop computers to. If so can someone tell me step by step how to do it. I am not very tech savy.
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Brinka,
You can NOT clone two computers to one external disk. The reason being that cloning is at disk level and one clone would overwrite the prior clone.
You most certainly can use one external disk to store "backup" files of each computer and store each computers backup files in its own separate folder. These backup files are compressed data files and stored the same as any other file. These type backup can be backup of your files or of a single or all partitons. The size of any of your backups will be about 70% of its used space.
If you want your backups capable of producing a duplicate disk should there be a need, then the type of backup that you need to perform is one which is most often called a "disk" option backup and it must include all partitions within the same backup. The picture below shows how to create a "disk"option backup when booted from the TI Rescue CD.
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