Can I send a image to my external HDD dock instead of cloning?
Hi
( I hope I have worded the correctly) basically instead of cloning a hard drive can I just do a image restore to the external hard drive in my USB dock?
.From what I have been reading cloning a hdd its always not the best way.
So I'm asking can I restore a image to my external USB hdd dock?
If so it would save a lot of moving around as I have the PC in a desk, so crawling around etc would save me a lot of pain.
Tia
Btw my pc is a Dell XPS 8700 desktop


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Wow that just made my day.
Thank you for the help
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Last question I tried doing that by restarting w/ boot disc>recovery> partition ( not files)>chose my C: drive> send to> USB and let it run and failed. I tried this twice with no luck. It did run for hours and failed both times the cloned drive was empty?
So next I restarted using the boot disc choose clone and that worked fine. I have yet to check that with the cloned in my PC as like i mentioned I'm crawling around moving a large desk to get that the pc.
I did check the size and number of files between the C and the cloned drive and they are both the same. Is it possible to validate the clone somehow without physically installing it in my pc?
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I did check the size and number of files between the C and the cloned drive and they are both the same. Is it possible to validate the clone somehow without physically installing it in my pc?
Not that I am aware of other than by swapping in the cloned drive and booting from it.
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