![]() But of course, this is irrelevant to your use case which is to produce a cloned drive that you can use in your laptop, since your laptop would not be able to boot off nor use an image of a drive (it needs an actual working drive with partitions and a bootloader etc. You could even call storing an image 'more reliable' since you're just archiving the state of your drive in time, and aren't going to operate on it like you would if you cloned the drive and started using it (overwriting sectors, changing data around, reading+writing, etc.). You're just comparing two completely different tasks with different purposes / use cases. Other use cases apply of course, but what you said before is similar to saying 'well taking the SD card out of my phone and storing it away sounds less reliable than making a copy and putting the copy in my new replacement phone'. You typically don't work with or operate on images images are typically archived instances of what a drive looked like at a point in time, meant for future restoration. One produces a cloned drive you can use, and the other allows you to store what a drive looked like as a file, so you can archive it in a filesystem and at some point in the future, take that file and produce a drive that looks just like the old original drive did. The most common disk copy tasks are automated by using the toolbar Copy functionality but weve also added the ability to set free space before and after a copied. Well yeah, they're meant for entirely different use cases, but neither is more 'reliable', 'robust' or whatever vs. Weve improved the Restore and Clone functionality by adding automatic fill/shrink where the target disk is a different size to the source. Just make sure to tag the post with the flair and give a little background info/context. On Fridays we'll allow posts that don't normally fit in the usual data-hoarding theme, including posts that would usually be removed by rule 4: “No memes or 'look at this '” We are not your personal archival army.No unapproved sale threads, advertisement posts, or giveaways. ![]()
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