Drive cloning and its related cousin drive imaging are two of the staples of a computer technician's tool set. In fact, if someone who claims to be a computer technician and has no idea how to clone or image drives, then you might want to have someone else fixing your computer.
When you have a harddrive that has Windows or Mac operating system on it plus all the associated programs that have been installed in it, you want to create a clone of this drive so that when something goes wrong with the system or the drive itself dies, you have the exact duplicate of its former self. This saves many hours of not having to reinstall the operating system and programs. This fact alone makes drive cloning or drive imaging a very attractive task to do to a computer before you start using it. Once you start using the computer, it's on its way to become corrupted with errors and computer viruses and all the things that can and will go wrong with the operating system and the physical deterioration of the physical drive itself. Therefore, it's not a matter of if but when you need to either reinstall the operating system or replace the drive. Knowing that it will happen anyway, you should be proactive with what you have to do when it happens.
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