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Re: Convinced me, going to backup first.

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on 16 Feb 2025 11:21:56 GMT, Frank Slootweg
<this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

>Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:
>> On 2/14/2025 10:27 PM, micky wrote:
>> > 
>> > https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW80/Cloning+a+disk#Cloningadisk-0
>> > says "Important
>> > Windows cannot boot from a USB-connected drive. This is a restriction
>> > imposed by Microsoft. If you clone your system disk to a USB-connected
>> > external drive then, to boot your clone,  the physical disk must be
>> > removed from the USB caddy and attached internally."  I can't very
>> > easily do that with a laptop, especially with a 5 1/4" drive.  Is this
>> > actually true?    Still true??  The page that says it was "Last modified
>> > by Macrium Software on Dec 05, 2022" Was it true 2 years ago?
>> 
>>    I don't understand the issue here. Whatever imaging program
>> you use should be on a CD or USB stick, from which you boot,
>> writing the image to a non-C:\ partition or disk. So why do you
>> need to boot Windows from a USB caddy?
>
>  micky is mixing up cloning with (image) backup (and restore). In his

You're right that I still don't understand what it is I would need to
repair things (a clone or a backup?) if the problem with windows hadn't
been reversiable.  I didn't want to take another day to ask before
installing EP.   So I made a clone, even though it was on a 5" drive and
the laptop has a 3" drive, because I thought if need be I could boot
from the clone while it was still external.  

>subject he (correctly) talks about "going to backup first", but in his
>text, he's talking about cloning (which he should *not* be doing).
>
>  Which of the two - image backup or cloning - he is *actually* doing,
>we can only guess.

The 3rd paragraph of my OP, the one quoted at the top herem is quoting
someone else and I brought it up to ask if it was true that one couldn't
boot from a USB-connected drive.  I thought I remembered that that was
an option. 
>
>  Normally, image backup is the common use and cloning is a rare
>exception. 

Good to know.  It's not too late to replace the clone with an image
backup.  No need to keep the clone especially if one can't boot from a
usb-connected drive.  

>(In my 10 years of using Macrium Reflect (Free), I've never
>cloned a disk (or partiotion).)
>
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Convinced me, going to backup first.  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-14 22:27 -0500
  Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-15 03:06 -0500
  Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-02-15 04:51 -0600
    Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-15 08:42 -0500
      Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-02-15 10:58 -0600
        Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-15 23:34 -0500
          Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-15 23:46 -0700
          Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-16 09:21 -0500
            Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-01 18:08 -0400
  Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-15 09:14 -0500
    Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-16 11:21 +0000
      Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-16 13:45 -0500
        Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-16 13:14 -0700
          Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-02-16 17:53 -0600
            Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-17 00:49 -0700
            Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-10 10:33 -0400
              Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-10 13:24 -0500
          Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-10 10:38 -0400
        Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-18 20:54 +1100
          Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-18 11:53 -0500
            Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-20 20:04 +1100
              Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-20 09:07 -0500
                Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-21 18:25 +1100
                Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-21 09:21 -0500
                Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-02-21 18:06 +0000
                Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-21 16:16 -0500
  Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. eternal@notreally.com (Juancho) - 2025-02-16 18:31 +0100
    Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-16 19:51 -0500
    Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-17 06:48 -0500
      Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-17 15:06 +0000
        Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-17 10:58 -0500
          Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-17 16:38 +0000
      Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-17 12:49 -0700
        Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-17 22:05 -0500
  Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-28 00:16 +1000
    Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-05-27 10:34 -0500
    Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-27 14:31 -0400
      Re: Convinced me, going to backup first. Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-28 20:12 +1000

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