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Clone versus regular backup

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My hard drive consists of 5 partitions: c:, d:, e: and f: and g:. For purposes of transferring the partitions to a new computer, is there any difference between a clone and a regular backup of the 5 partitions? As far as I can tell, the only difference is that the regular backup gives one the choice of which partitions to backup.

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A TrueImage Clone is at disk level. If you clone disk A to Disk B, then Disk B will occupy the entire disk and be identical to disk A.
There are risks to cloning in that malfunctions happen. Power lost, disk not read, user mistake, wrong disk cloned. Check my signature below.

If you make a TrueImage Backup and you backup at disk level (disk option checked so all partitions are included), then you can use the TrueImage Restore option and

a. Create an identical disk (as if cloned).
b. or, restore single partitions.
c. avoid the risks inherent with cloning.

Also note that with cloning you get one copy, the clone. If you make backups you can store as many of them as you have room for on your drive and then be able to maintain a more robust backup protocol. E.g., sometimes your drive goes wonky and you ant to restore to get it back to a prior non-wonky state. However, the most recent backup was made after the wonk appeared and so won't help you get rid of the wonk. In that case an older backup would be helpful.