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Deleting Destination Partition when Cloning a Drive

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My TI 2013 objectives are: 1) clone my C drive, so that I have a copy of my operating system (W7-SP1), 2)Create a custom incremental backup each night of files worked on during the day; 3)whole disk backup once a week.

What I've done: 1)created a boot DVD and tested it, 2) done a partitions backup of my C: drive to an external hard drive, 3) created a custom backup schedule for incremental backup of worked on files; 4) started a Disk Clone, but get a message I'm concerned about:

Here's the question: When I now go to the Clone Disc task, after selecting the disk to clone and the backup destination, I get a message asking me to 'click OK to confirm deletion of all the partitions on the destination hard drive. If I click OK, won't I delete the newly created partitions (on the external destination drive) and lose all the partition data from the C: drive?

Should I delete the newly created partitions from the destination drive and start over with the clone disc operation?

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A clone is an exact copy of the source disk. The destination disk will be deleted (all data and partitions) and the source disk will be cloned (copied) to the destination disk. You should consider using the "disk" mode backup feature in 2013 to create a complete image backup of your source disk onto the destination disk. This disk image is stored as a file and can be used to restore to a new blank disk or to your existing source disk if needed.

Please take a look at Grover's excellent guide to creating backup files in True Image 2013 located here" http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705

OK, thanks, that makes sense. I didn't see the disk mode backup until after I had performed the partition backup. I think I will start all over, and do a disk mode backup. I will read the guide you linked beforehand.