what is cloning a hard drive, and what does it involve?

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simonchipmunk

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please excuse my ignorance,but I didn't know that a hard drive could be cloned. what is involved in performing this procedure. Why would a person want to clone a hard drive?
 
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EasyLover

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Cloning is a procedure in which you create exact copy of the source disk on the target disk provided it meets certain criteria. Use it for boot drive/disk only preferably. For example if you have storage disk of say 120GB and simply wants to copy its entire contents over to another storage disk with same or more capacity. You can clone the disk using certain software. This comes handy when installing a SSD and want to make SSD your boot disk.

Benefit: Benefit is that you don't need to install windows again over the new storage disk. Cloning will make replica of source or current disk on the new storage disk.
 
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