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A drive is a duplication of everything written to a hard drive?
A Backup The technical name is cloning.
What is imaging of the hard drive called?
This is commonly called "ghosting" or "cloning".
What is it called when you make an exact copy of a hard drive to replicate the hard drive on another system?
disk cloning or dist imaging.
Can you copy your operating system to your new hard drive?
Yes, you can copy your operating system to a new hard drive using cloning software. This process creates an exact replica of your old drive, including the OS, applications, and files. Popular cloning software options include Macrium Reflect, Acronis True Image, and Clonezilla. After cloning, you'll need to ensure that your computer is set to boot from the new hard drive.
What kind of process is disk cloning?
Disk cloning is the copying of the contents of one hard disk to another hard disk. In the alternative, a cloning copy can also be saved as an "image" file; a compressed file containing a "snap shot" of the hard drive's contents.
How can one clone their hard drive?
Hard drive cloning takes the contents of one hard drive and transfers it to another. The easiest way to do this is by using an imaging utility like Acronis or Clonezilla.
How do you image a laptop hard drive either IDE or SATA without having the laptop on hand?
You would have to use an external cloning machine.
What software is available for making an exact copy of a hard drive?
The term for this is "cloning a drive". Norton Ghost is a popular software package that will do this for you.
When you clone your hard drive do all files get copied like my pictures and music?
Yes, cloning creates absolute copy of your hard drive basically twin with identical content.
How can you recover your lost data by imaging or cloning?
Technically speaking, you can't. Cloning or imaging can help you recover something only in a specific situation. Example: if I have a file stored on my hard drive, and I clone my hard drive information to another machine, then the next day that first computer completely dies, fortunately the file I want is now on that other machine.Recovery however generally refers to getting something back after it has already been corrupted or failed and if your hard drive goes bad and you haven't already cloned the information you wanted, cloning will now do nothing. Even if the hard drive somehow worked enough to be imaged, you would just be imaging the same corrupted data.
Bobs friend tells him that he should consider purchasing an external hard drive What is an appropriate reason why someone would use an external hard drive?
It saves hard disk space.
How can you increase your hard drive?
You can't "increase" an hard drive. You can buy a new one. The best for you would be to talk with someone that has some experience with computers, because putting a new hard drive in a computer is not that hard but you can easily break something
