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If I clone my hard drive then say a week later I want to add more information that wasn't on the original drive (c drive ) will it just add that information to it. Thanks

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No.

Don't clone. Your best course is to make a full disk mode backup, which includes all partitions (even hidden ones), to an external HD. That will include everything: Windows; all your settings; all your installed software applications; all your data; ... everything.

Each 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.

Cloning has no advantage over full backup and restore, except a slight time saving at the expense of considerably more risk and complexity.

Please excuse my ignorance but what I need to do is choose backup and recovery tab, disc and partition backup, switch to disc mode, choose my storage, make this media bootable, name it, back up now? Thanks

You don't need to make the media bootable.

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.
In particular, 29618: Grover's new backup and restore guides http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618
There's also a full on-line user manual, and a downloadable user manual.
Grover's How to Create a "Disk Image" or "Disk Mode" Image: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/38691