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Restore drive backup image to new drive - question
If I understand correctly, you can create backup images of your OS drive and use a boot recovery disk to boot your computer and restore these images to the OS drive.
What happens if the computer OS hard drive or SSD becomes damaged and a new drive installation is required. How would you prepare the new drive to accept the restored files? It would require formatting, wouldn't it? How is that accomplished if your computer is inoperable?
Does the boot recovery disc that most backup programs create have the ability to recognize the need to format a fresh drive or are there tools added during the creation of this recovery disc that allows one to format a new drive prior to restoring from the backup image?
Thank you