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Yeah MJ I just clone so that should the internal (original drive) eat the biscuit I can just whip it out and flip in the cloned drive and apart from very recent updates and stuff you have a drive to boot from and just carry on here you left off - its purely a personal preference of mine to do that rather use imaging as my way I have an exact replica of the dead drive.
Alternatively I sometimes have two drives in the machine - both the same size because I do like that EaseUS app - it's just too easy - and just do a regular clone from drive 1 to drive 2 and using drive 2 should drive 1 go belly up by unplugging D1 it goes straight to D2 for the boot and shows up as C:.
In my simple mind it saves a fair bit of work having to use some imaging app to get back what is gone to another drive.
The gadget I mentioned earlier is also useful when you have a drive that is UAC protected and hooking the drive up to the machine via the gadget - the machine "sees" the drive sitting outside as just another drive (like a huge stick for example) and you can access the data on that drive without any UAC login password. I have used this method for copying data for friends who cannot remember the password onto another drive or disk and then they can just carry on as before.
Another alternative I have used is to boot Ubuntu and it can do exactly the same thing accessing the drive outside of the case via the gadget .