The process of copying all the data of one computer hard drive to another drive or to an image file is known as Hard Drive Cloning. The cloning procedure not only copies the data, but also creates a clone of all the file structures. Few benefits for creating a clone of your hard drive are:
Full system data backup
System Recovery
Data Transfer to another user
System reboot and restore
Hard drive upgradation
To create a successful and systematic clone of your hard drive, you will need to use powerful data backup application.
Stellar InstaBackup Gold 2.0 is advanced and easy to use software to create a clone of your hard drive on your preferred destination drive. The non destructive application powerful and user-friendly software is built with highly graphical user-interface that makes it self-explanatory. The software supports Windows Vista and XP operating systems, and creates hard drive clone on below storage media:
Hard Drive's / Disk's
LAN (Local Area network)
Remote FTP Servers (remote / online backup)
DVD / CD-RW devices
Pen Drives
Points To Remember:
Below are few points that you will need to remember before creating a clone of your hard drive:
Hard drive that is used as destination drive should have greater or equal storage memory than the source hard disk.
Hard drive that contains operating system cannot be specified as destination drive.
You can not clone a specific volume in the hard drive; instead entire hard drive is cloned.