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Not too long ago I wrote an article about cloning vs. imaging a hard drive. But, some users are still confused. So here goes another attempt at an explanation of the differences.
If you make a clone of your hard drive, you will have an exact sector for sector copy. If you remove the hard drive from your computer and replace it with the clone, the computer will behave the same way it did before you made the switch. The operating system and all of the programs will transfer. But, let's suppose you made the clone a month ago. If so, everything is out of date. You could make a new clone everyday, but clones take a long time to make and each time you clone you overwrite the data that was on that drive.
Images are also exact copies, but the data is compressed, so you can have many images on one disk and the new ones will not overwrite the older ones. However, to boot your computer so you can restore an image, you must have made and now will have to use a recovery disk. To make one, just type "Create a Recovery Disk" in the Windows 10 search box and follow the prompts.
Originally posted by Alan Marcus
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