Cloning to USB Hard drive
I just purchased an HP Spectre 360 laptop and loaded it up with my software. I purchased Acronis True Image 2016. I tried to clone my SSD drive. When I start the cloning process everything works fine. When Acronis says to restart my computer I say okay. The computer restarts and goes back into windows without ever doing the backup. I get no error message. I must be doing something wrong.

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Cloning refers to the operation of duplicating the disk information from disk A to disk B. The result is that disk B is a clone of disk A. Typically you wouldn't clone to a USB hard drive because these disks are not bootable.
Imaging refers to the operation of storing all the disk information of disk A to a file on disk B. The results is a set of archive files. If disk A fails, you restore the information from these files to disk A or its replacement. All necessary data of disk A is backed up and restored to get your system (OS, apps, data) back it where it was.
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