I will be buying Acronis Trueimage 10.0.

I want to have my laptop's entire system backed up. C drive on laptop.

I have a WD external USB drive with 2 partitions. Each partition has files
on it and I'd like to keep it that way. There's plenty of room to b/u my
laptop's drive.

I understand now that if I CLONE my laptop's drive, this would wipe
everything else out of the external drive's partition. So, I'd rather not do
that.

My question: what is the advantage/disadvantage of a clone vs. an image? Is
it just that I'd be able to boot from the external drive to start with?

If I use the image method and have a bootable CD, then I should be able to
restore matters anyway. Is that correct??

Or, if my old computer gets trashed and I have to get a new computer (assume
same XP Home) then can I once again install Acronis on the new computer and
resurrect what I want from the b/u image from my external HD??

Hope this question makes sense!

Mel

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"MZB" <moo@noway.prudigy.net> wrote in message
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>I will be buying Acronis Trueimage 10.0.
>
> I want to have my laptop's entire system backed up. C drive on laptop.
>
> I have a WD external USB drive with 2 partitions. Each partition has files
> on it and I'd like to keep it that way. There's plenty of room to b/u my
> laptop's drive.
>
> I understand now that if I CLONE my laptop's drive, this would wipe
> everything else out of the external drive's partition. So, I'd rather not
> do that.
>
> My question: what is the advantage/disadvantage of a clone vs. an image?
> Is it just that I'd be able to boot from the external drive to start with?
>
> If I use the image method and have a bootable CD, then I should be able to
> restore matters anyway. Is that correct??
>
> Or, if my old computer gets trashed and I have to get a new computer
> (assume same XP Home) then can I once again install Acronis on the new
> computer and resurrect what I want from the b/u image from my external
> HD??
>
> Hope this question makes sense!
>
A clone, is where you have drive, and you copy it to another drive.
The other drive becomes an exact copy of the original.
And can be used in place of the original.

An image is a complete copy of the original drive that you
can use to re-write/repair if the original `falls over`.
Or you can take to another place, and use.
hope this makes sense.
bw..OJ

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