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Hello. I have used the free version offered when you buy a WD Drive. I installed new drive in windows pc as secondary drive. I then cloned the C:/ drive to secondary drive. At end of process PC shut down and I manually switched drives in case. Then restarted PC. Everything worked great as now system is running on new cloned drive.

Question ? Is it possible to clone C:/ drive to a secondary internal drive and just disconnect this second drive and save for a possible failure of C:/ drive?

Thanks
Phil

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Not only can you but it is recommended to reomove it before you reboot. Since win allows only one system drive, it will mark one as system and the other as not and that drive will no longer be bootable. Although I"ve had win mark one drive as boot and use system files on the other -- very messy. Remove your second drive and see if you boot. If so then, you clone is good. then I'd do this to be safe.

Clone the current drive booting drive to the second drive to make sure the second is bootable. then remove the second drive before you reboot. YOu can put in in by itself to see if it is bootable, but don't have two bootable drives in one machine when you boot.

Personally, I'd prefer to to make a full backup and then rsotre it to a sdrive and I'd have the drive in the same position inthe machine as the original drive, this protects against some boot issues. You only get one clone per hdisk but you can have many full disk backups on a hdisk.

Thanks for the info. Did not know about only one clone per hard disk. I think I will use disk image and occasionally re-due. Along with critical file backups.
Thanks again
Phil