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Last night I purchased True Image 2013, I have also just purchased the PLus Pak to go with it.
I need to mirror (clone) the complete system from my old computer that has started to do some odd things occasionally to another computer of the same type so I do not lose any software program settings. I'm thinking I have got all I need with these two products - am I correct?
I have not downloaded these products as yet but will get an external hard drive to use for this operation and then download - OK?

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My best advice: Do not Clone! Instead, do one extra step and create a full disk Backup to an external drive. If ever you need to return to that image state, you would do a full disk Restore/Recovery.

There is rarely a need to Clone. Really, Backup is safer and more flexible. Many users encounter problems Cloning which they would not have if they had instead used Backup.

1. Don't use Clone. Do a full disk mode Backup, selecting the entire disk, and a Restore. The end result will be the same as Clone, but with many advantages.

2. Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left margin of this forum, particularly Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.
29618: Grover's new backup and restore guides http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618

A full disk backup, 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.

Once a full disk image .tib archive is restored to a drive, the result is the same as if that drive had been the target of a clone done on the date and time that the backup archive was created.

Clone is riskier because we've seen situations where users mistakenly choose the wrong drive to clone from and to, thus wiping out their system drive.

Tuttle thank you for that advise - I shall follow your suggestion. I presume that I would just "restore" my new computer and the restore will overwrite anything (including the Windows XP operating system). Is that assumption correct?

If you create a full disk mode backup (which you should), and you restore it as full disk mode, then yes it would overwrite the drive. I've done such full disk restores to raw, unformatted drives (after disk failure) and they worked perfectly.