Acronis Cloning or Creating Bootable external drive
Acronis 2014 on Windows 8.1 64 bit. Best wat tocreate a spare hard drive to pop in laptop in case internal drive fials.
I am reading conflicting information on Acronis Site versus other sites. And to beat a dead horse....
Goal: Create a backup of internal laptop drive to an external hard drive (same size) that is bootable and can be inserted in laptop if internal laptop drive fails... I wouldlike to have my tib files/partition backups on one external backup drive and then restore those to the other USB conneced external drive that I wan t to use as a fialsafe to replace internal laptop hard drive. I realize contents could be out of sync unless I do this often.
1-If I have an external hard drive connected via USB cable and it is tge same size as internal laptop hard drive, could I create a copy multiple (partitions or clone backup) of my internal laptop hard drive ---to---> external drive (via anohter hard drive with TIB files) and have it work (boot and function) if I then put the external drive in my laptop???
I am asking so as to avoid placing the spare hard drive in the laptop and then restore to it (from whatever source) in order to create a viable replacement (in case of failure) of latop hard drive??
YES or NO?
2-Is it best to restore the internal laptop hard drive as a:
a) clone of original?
b) restore the individual partition backup of EACH of the partitions mentioned below?
c) or an ALL PARTITION backup (at once) OF small RE/PE partition, small MSR/other partition, drive C, D partitions all at once?? (excuse me but I forget the partition names off the top of my head)?
Of course I would boot the laptop from CD or USB media to create the backup TIB or clone image from one drive to the other?
Thanks so very much
Sincerely
Peter