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Hi there - please excuse my lack of knowledge, but I want to make a complete copy of my hard drive so that if it fails I have another I can drop straight in.

Q. Is the Home version suitable for this with the Clone function?

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paul

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That is what the clone funciton does. It bascially copies everything on one harddisk and pputs it onto another. Then you can repalce one with the other.

It's important not to boot with booth drives attached after cloning a windows system drive as windows, refusing to recognize both as a boot drive, will mark one as not a system drive and you won't be able to boot with it.

Many of us recommend that you do backups instead of or in addition to clones. With backups you copy the image of a volume or disk into a file. You can has as many of these backups on the storage drive as will fit -- with a clone you get jsut one instance of an image per drive. By having mulitple copies you can have version that go back farther in time. Sometimes you want to restore the most recent version you have because it has the most recent data. But sometimes themore recent backups might have the beginnings of a problem you only noticed later (a woncky registry or such) and then you will want to have an older backup, one that predates the wonk.

Getting up and running with a clone is usually faster, than doing a restore, but he one image per drive limitation is rather confining -- unless you can buy lots and lots of harddrives.