“Can I clone my "C" drive using Acronis True Image, or Norton Ghost to this unit? So, if my internal HD dies, will I be able to clone a new "C" HD from this WD cloned external HD, so I'll be up and running again?”
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Do not clone your system disk to a USB-drive, Windows cannot boot from a USB-drive. The cloning should be done from Acronis Bootable Media (created on CD/DVD or Flash). When cloning from Acronis Bootable Media, you do not need to have an operating system or an Acronis product installed on the new drive. You do not even need to have the new drive formatted to do the cloning. For information on Acronis Bootable Media see Acronis bootable media: https://kb.acronis.com/content/1537 Even when you start cloning in Windows, the computer will reboot into the Linux environment the same as when booting from the rescue media. Because of this, it is better to clone under rescue media. For example, there may be a case when your hard disk drives are detected in Windows and not detected in Linux. If this is the case, the cloning operation will fail after reboot. When booting from the rescue media, you can make sure that Acronis True Image detects both the source and target disks before starting the cloning operation. Cloning of both desktop and laptop hard disks is supported.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes! Make sure to create a Recovery Disk with Acronis, while things are working.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.windows CAN boot from a USB drive - just change the boot order in the BIOS.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I'm using this as a mirror image backup drive = I have Carbonite online and this as a mirror. Carbonite tells me this should work. It seems it should work for you as well
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