Cloned disk a while ago. Today plugged it in to see contents??? What should I be seeing?
I made a cloned disk of my startup C drive a year or so ago. My C drive contained about 350 gigs of data and it seemed to accomplish the cloning when I went through the steps. Today I got curious about what was ON the cloned drive so I plugged it in and I didn't see any contents besides what was on the drive from the manufacturer before, like a manual etc. The SIZE of the disk did seem like it HAD data on it though... As in, the drive I was using to clone it was a 3TB HD and when browsed into only showed about 2.6 TB useable space, but again, there were no folders, etc of data I could physically "see". Is this because a cloned drive can't be explored this way and it is contained in some unreadable bootable form???
The reason I also threw it in to check the contents was to also see if I could use some of this "wasted space". I mean cloning a 350 gig C drive on a 3TB HD leaves a LOT of wasted space (not good planning on my part) which brings about my next question. CAN I place data onto that drive and not screw up the "bootable" part that I "think" might be there, granted I can't see this data as mentioned before except for just some mathematical numbers that indicate it MIGHT be there... Right now I am throwing data onto it and it is allowing me to do so but I still am very curious... IS THERE a bootable C drive on there? What would it look like in the explorer browser? How can one verify the boot disk exists without having to boot to it in the event of disaster? Thanks for any help here.


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