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Could someone tell me if it is possible to clone laptop insternal hard drive to usb
external hard drive. The internal has 2 partitions the C drive and D drive that has
all of the restore items.
The reason I am asking is Dell sent me a new hard drive for laptop that has all of
the usual stuff that is factorey installed since I had to virtually wipe out the
one in my computer because of issues. I was hoping to be able to clone the new one
to external hard drive in case this happended again.
Before problem started I right clicked and sent everything to external but when issues
arose it did not work when I tried to reinstall from the external
Thanks
The easiest way is to use partition cloning software such as that by Acronis. I
would get hold of another laptop hard drive and an external USB caddy (sometimes
you can buy the drive already in the caddy). Clone your laptop drive partitions to
the external - then if the drive fails, simply swap the one in your laptop for the
one in the caddy, and it will work. Then you can place the non-working one in the
caddy and erase the partitions ready to accept a clone of your newly installed drive.
