Booting up a back up drive?

[cardingsungkit420]

Will i be able to boot up my hard drive that only contains a back up lets say i removed the old hard drive because it has low health and its failing and i backed it up to another hard drive..will i be able to boot up that hard drive?

 

[USAFRet]

Will i be able to boot up my hard drive that only contains a back up lets say i removed the old hard drive because it has low health and its failing and i backed it up to another hard drive..will i be able to boot up that hard drive?

How did you do this 'backup'?
(probably not)

 

[USAFRet]

i done the backup by default windows back up stuff by goig to properties of drive > tools > backup i didnt used any third party apps

No, you can't boot from that.
You'd need to boot from an OS install DVD or USB.

What OS is this?