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We have recently purchased 70 Lenovo Desktops. I built one with the intent to clone it to the rest. I was successful in cloning the first one and was then going to use those first 2 machines to clone all of the others.

On my second attempt to clone the first pc it cloned from the new pc over the image I had built. I was also able to clone the 2nd successful image to another machine but after that it kept overwriting my image with the one from a new pc.

I was left with one good image and in the process of trying backup my image with built in Lenovo software it then rebooted and crashed my hard drive. I did the exact same process on all of the clones but some of them worked and some didn't.

Now I have to rebuild my image. Is there anything I can do to prevent it from happening again?

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It sounds like you got the cloning backwards vis-a-vis hdisks.
I'd recommmnd making a full disk backup and then using the backup file to restore the image to whatever target disk you have in mind. That way your original is never in any jeophardy of being to when yo dont' want it to. Cloning sounds spiffy but your original disk is always at some risk of being misidentified as the target.

Also note that when cloning or recoverring, since you are booting into antoher OS, the drive letter assignment might not be the same as when you are in windows -- use volume labels, drive specs or drive ids to distinguish which drive is which.