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Can I clone a disk from more than one PC to one destination drive?

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When I backed up a laptop, it formatted my new destination hard drive. If I want to clone the disk of more than one PC can I use a single destination drive to accomplish that?

I would think select manual as opposed to automatic and then what?

Or does the fact that I may want the destination media to be bootable, eliminate the ability for multiple PC cloned disks on the same destination drive?

Thanks!

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Do nor clone. create full disk mode backups, selecting the disk checkbox rather than individual partitions, includes everything. It includes everything that a clone would include. The difference is that while a clone immediately writes that information a single time to another drive, a backup is saved as a compressed .tib archive. As such, multiple .tib archives may be saved to a single backup drive, allowing for greater redundancy, security and flexibility. You may save backups from multiple drives and/or from multiple PCs to a single backup drive.

Thank you. I just want to be able to restore in case of a hard drive crash, which means I want to backup installed programs etc.

I assume then that cloning is more for upgrading or replacing what is on a current hard drive?

Following Tuttle's suggestion will allow you to backup your installed programs and files and restore them later in the event of an issue.

twriter wrote:

I assume then that cloning is more for upgrading or replacing what is on a current hard drive?

Full disk mode backup does everything that a clone does, but is safer. Clone has no advantage over backup and restore, except that it's slightly faster as done in one single risky operation. Full disk mode backup is far safer, and as I said you may store any Full disk mode backups to a single external HD to give you more options for restoration.