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Hi, I want to clone the hard drive of a w7 laptop i use in my business. It has old software (some DOS) that I cant replace. If I cant mount a second drive to the lap top how do I save the clone (cloud is not an option). I must be missing something obvious??

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nr...welcome to these user forums.  You could do this in a couple of ways. 

First, if the laptop has a DVD that you can write to, ATI can perform a disk mode backup to DVD (most likely multiple DVD disks).  

If that is not possible, you could remove the hard drive from the laptop and attach it to another computer using a USB adapter.

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-USB3S2SAT3CB-Drive-Adapter-Cable/dp…

Then perform the backup to an internal (or external) drive.  Then attach the target drive and perform a restore of the backup.

After the restore, you can swap the drives and confirm that the backup & restore were successful.