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i cloned my "upgraded to win 10 " drive with Macrum reflect free. I wanted to move the original drive into a suspension cradle so I cloned it as a safety precaution before doing that, using a sata drive in a USB caddy to clone to. took about 3 hours on USB2, copied about 600GB.
the only side effect I now see, from running reflect, is that I have extra drive letters assigned to 3 -4 small previously hidden partitions on the original dell source drive - i assume these are recovery partitions put there by dell or by win 8. shoudl he harmless so long as I ignore them.
so I did not need to actually install the clone drive, but I now have the original in a sharkoon HD stabiliser in the spare 5.25 bay, where is is definitely quieter. dell's hard drive rail mounts leak hum into the case.
but for calibre libraries, I still advocate, sending a mirrored sync copy to whatever cloud services you can get for free, and/or to USB sticks. If, like me, you tinker a lot with your books, then the more backups the better!
a disconnected USB copy protects against ransomware ever stricking
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