Does editing cloned drive mess things up
My situation - Using TrueImage 11 Home I cloned my laptop drive running Win XP to a partition on a much larger external drive, than created two more partitions of the unused space of the external drive to use for other purposes.
After opening the partition on the external drive which contained my successfully cloned image, I was surprised to find that I had access to all the files - same as if I was in my laptop's drive. Before giving it any consideration, I created a new folder in this cloned partition and started to copy all the cloned files in the partition into that folder - stopping the copy before the systems files were moved - than reversed the process, i.e., returned the copied files from the new folder into the open partition.
My question - Did I already mess up my cloned drive partition (on my external drive), i.e., will not be able to restore it as an executable image on a new drive. If not, what can I do in that cloned drive partition, e.g., look at/copy old files from the cloned My Documents, etc. without corrupting it?
My laptop has been acting up - including some blue-screen situations (which is a different matter), and I was planning to purchase a newer-used laptop and restore my cloned image onto it (I don't have all my app's installation disks).
Obviously I have no experience with cloning drives and can't seem to find any info in the forums about this matter.
Thank you for any feedback/comments
Paul

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Be aware that whether you image or clone to a new computer, Windows may well sulk due to hardware differences and driver requirements. These can be got around, but you need to be aware of this and if possible should have access to an OS CD/DVD.
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