Mr.1002Richards,
That's a thought-provoking article which you've posted! When one "clone's" his hard disk content to an external HDD, the entire contents of C drive and other drives are stored there in their entirety (THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA OF A BACKUP). In the case of a crash or a Hard Disk death,one simply "RESTORE'S" the IMAGE to a new internal HDD! Now ,the article says,there is no need to backup "executable"files and "program"files, which seems a bit odd to me! The whole concept of taking a Backup and Restore is to save your C drive so that neither the "system folders"or the "program"files or even the "executable" files are not lost,and are replaced in an"as is"state. I've suffered two crashes and thanks to Mr.Elvandil's advise(Macrium Reflect-free version) ,could restore not only my system to it's original state,but all the softwares could be correctly re-installed (store the keys!).The vital thing here is to take a backup of both your "OS'" and "pc" drivers on to seperate DVD-RW's! The other proviso is, if you are a Linux user,better to make absolutely sure that the external hard disk mounts on"it,because SEAGATE EXTN.HDDs as i know, don't support Linux(hope they have fixed it).
