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There are several reasons you might want to clone your hard drive, one is for a backup. While not an ideal solution in some ways, a clone will allow the substitution of the cloned drive for the live drive, if the live drive fails, by simply swapping the drives.
That sounds great except the clone is date specific, so it you made the clone 6 months ago, then you computer will be back up and running…as it was 6 months ago. Another reason to clone a drive would be if you are going to swap out your old, mechanical hard drive for a faster SSD-Solid State Drive. I make clones for that reason mostly. The software I typically use is Macrium Reflect, the free version. It’s fairly simple to use and works almost every single time. You can download it HERE. Another option is to use Clonezilla. It’s also free, and might be a better option as it works on both Macs and PCs, using a thumb drive to run. Instructions for that are HERE. How to Ghost a Hard Drive (with Pictures) - wikiHow Comments are closed.
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