Cloning Question

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  1. SJMaye
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    SIW2 said:
    I expect they did that to adjust the bcd entry, because it has to point at the cloned disk and partition id which is not the same as the source disk.
    I will defer to you as I have no clue. All I know is that it does boot.
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  3. MisterEd
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    I don't understand why you would want to do a weekly clone of the drive. A full disk backup is all that is required to restore the drive if that is ever required. Also, there is no confusion about drive letters since none are involved.

    I use EaseUS Todo Backup on one of my computers. The only time I did a clone was when I wanted to replace the HDD with an SSD. I put the SSD in an external enclosure, booted with EaseUS Todo Backup on a flash drive, and cloned the HDD to the SSD. I then replaced the HDD with the SSD and booted from it.

    Note when you do the clone by booting from a flash drive there won't be a confusion of drive letters because you are not cloning from a working Windows system.

    Currently I do full disk backups of the SSD. Like I said that is all that is required to restore the SSD if that is ever required.

    BTW, this computer is a dual-boot of Windows 7 Pro and Windows 10 Pro. I run EaseUS Todo Backup from within Windows 10.
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