Question Cloning my WIN 11 "C" drive

[Doug662]

I Have never cloned a drive before and I have a question. It took a little more than an hour to do. I used Ease Us Disk Copy to do this.
i used a USB 1TB external drive. When I go into "My PC" it looks exactly like my "C" drive and I can open files on it run a program etc. Should I try to boot from it? Or, just un hook the drive and store it? I went in to the BIOS, but it must be the settings I have with my TV/monitor because the BIOS will not fit the page and I was not sure what to do. I did see in the BIOS A bootable drive (something like that). I have allot of expensive software that I can't loose and this was my reasoning behind this. How would you go about resizing the BIOS so all can be seen?

All help would be helpful.








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[JayGau]

It's totally possible to boot from an external usb drive if your motherboard supports it, by as USAfret said it's not what you want to do.

If you want to save your data and installers you can just use a regular backup software (Windows has a pretty good one). If you want to keep a copy of your system as it is with all the software installed you have to create an image. Windows does that too but I personally also use Clonezilla to make images of my systems (it does both clones and images and works for both Linux and Windows). An image is easy to store and push to a new drive in case of a disaster. And you can still use the drive for other things (like you can store both your image and your data backup on the same external drive).

A clone is really to replace a drive immediately, like if you buy a faster drive and don't want to reinstall your OS you can just clone it and switch the drives. It's not what you should do to backup your system.

For your BIOS display problem, it's a resolution issue. You screen has a lower resolution or aspect ratio than your BIOS. The only way to fix that is to get a better monitor. Unless you have a very old or crappy display adapter that can't even display your BIOS resolution, but my bet is on the monitor.