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Figure 1: An illustration of connecting two drives to a computer to clone one drive (the source drive) to another (the destination) drive. Disk cloning occurs by copying the contents of a drive called the source drive. While called "disk cloning", any type of storage medium that connects to the computer via USB, NVMe or SATA can be cloned. A ...
A cloned drive can replace the original, rather than simply containing backup copies of files. Cloning software replicates the operating system, drives, software and patches of one computer for a variety of purposes, including setting up multiple computers, hard drive upgrades, and system recovery in the event of disk failure or corruption. [10]
Rarely an experienced user would reinstall Windows. In the case of the former, the boot loader will most likely inform the user the name of the missing file, allowing for the user to supply and/or reinstall the missing files to resolve the boot problem. In the case of the latter, however, the computer will not be able to boot, even into safe mode.
By June 1983 PC Magazine defined "PC 'clone '" as "a computer [that can] accommodate the user who takes a disk home from an IBM PC, walks across the room, and plugs it into the 'foreign' machine". [7] Demand for the PC by then was so strong that dealers received 60% or less of the inventory they wanted, [8] and many customers purchased clones ...
Although not technically a clone, Quadram produced an add-in ISA card, called the Quadlink, that provided hardware emulation of an Apple II+ for the IBM PC. [13] The card had its own 6502 CPU and dedicated 80 K RAM (64 K for applications, plus 16 K to hold a reverse-engineered Apple ROM image, loaded at boot-time), and installed "between" the PC and its floppy drive(s), color display, and ...
Acronis True Image is a proprietary backup, imaging, cloning and cybersecurity suite developed by Acronis International GmbH. [3] It can back up files, data, clone storage media and protects the system from ransomware. [4] [5] In 2021, the product was renamed to Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office before being renamed back to True Image in 2024 ...
Without the disks, any new hardware would be completely useless and the computer would occasionally not boot at all until the unconfigured device was removed. Micro Channel did not gain widespread support, [13] because IBM wanted to exclude clone manufacturers from this next-generation computing platform. Anyone developing for MCA had to sign ...
In 1985, Compaq introduced the Portable 286, but it was replaced by the more compact Portable II in a redesigned case within a few months. The Portable 286 featured a full-height hard disk, and the options of one half-height floppy drive, two half-height floppy drives, or a half-height floppy drive and a tape backup drive.