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Will doing this be able to create an exact clone of whatrever is on my hard drive?
For example. If I have a 1TB hard drive using Windows 7 OS with 300GB full, and the rest free. And I would like to copy everything from my 1TB hard drive into an empty 500GB hard drive. Thus I can take my 1TB hard drive out of my PC, and put the 500GB hard drive in. So that all the information is there exact.
Thank you.
Hello Crimson,
Yes, that would be correct. A system image backup will restore everything (drives and partions) that was selected when the image backup was created exactly the same way to the drive you restore it to. :)
Wait I'm confused by the word 'restore'. I have a 500GB drive with about 300GB of information in it. I'd like to put the entire 300GB of information into an empty 1TB drive. That way, I could remove the 500GB hard drive from my PC, and put the 1TB drive in so that it will function exactly the same way. Is that what this is for? Thanks.
No, you are talking about a Copy.
System Image makes an Image file.
You could make an image first, then restore the image to the other drive - it would have the same effect.
Easier and quicker to use an app. that has a Copy partition /disk function.
Hope it helps
This tutorial is about creating an image.
It should be possible to then restore that image to anther drive. It is not clear to me how that is done with Windows System Image function.
Much quicker and easier to do a copy/clone with an app. for that purpose.
Looks like the free Partition Wizard will do it - check the Help file first:
Free Download Partition Wizard
I would use Paragon Partition Manager/Drive Backup - ( not free) , but they will update bcd and do scheduling.