Should I Buy

Hello
Before I purchase will this work?
Install True Image
Fit a new hard drive into my externel cady
Make an image of my Hard Drive onto this drive. It contains 2 Partitions "C" and restore"D"
Remove old hard drive
Replace it with the one from the cady after changing links to make it master
Turn on P/C
If O/K refomant old drive.
Is it possable to do this say,every 6/8 weeks so that I always have a back up even if it could be 6/8 weeks old?

Grumps

 

If you want to remove the drive from the caddy, put it in the computer and want it to boot, the feature you have to use is called Cloning, not Imaging.

 

Hello
Yes that is what I want to do (Clone)
Is it practical?

Grumps

 

Yes, True Image works great for "cloning", i.e., replacing a HDD with another one. The procedure is outlined in the "Help" file under "Other operations" at the bottom of the list of items on the left. I've cloned several drives using True Image and the process was quite easy and surprisingly fast.

 

I don't understand the last part, if you reformat the old drive then where is the backup?

Better way, is to install 2 caddies. Make the clone and put the new clone into service (which tests it) and remove the original for safekeeping. Having 2 caddies makes it easier to swap drives and you can do this much more frequently because it is easier.

Xpilot does this, but uses imaging instead of cloning.

 

Hello
Sorry, I meant after 6/8 weeks formant the drive and clone again

Bumpyneck

 

There is no need to format the destination drive. The User Guide states:

You will have to select between:
• Delete partitions on the destination hard disk – all existing partitions will be
deleted during cloning and all their data will be lost.
• No, I do not want to delete partitions – no existing partition will be deleted,
discontinuing the cloning operation. You will have to cancel this operation and return to select another disk.