How to clone your PC hard drive using Macrium Reflect
(Windows Phone Central)

How do I make a copy of my hard drive on an external drive? Creating a complete backup of your hard drive by cloning it is never a bad idea. Hardware can fail, and it`s a pain losing your data. There are also times where you`d like to swap out a hard drive — whether in a laptop or a desktop — for something faster, but you want your PC to be the same as it was before the swap. In either of these cases, Macrium Reflect is a solid program that easily clones a drive. Why Macrium? It`s the first one we used, it works, and we didn`t find any reason to switch to another. There are two ways to go about a hard drive swap. You can purchase a hard drive enclosure and hook your PC up to the new internal drive for a direct clone before replacing it — this method will take the least time. If you don`t want to go in for a hard drive enclosure, you can clone the original drive to an external drive, do the physical swap, boot Windows from the external drive, and clone back onto th...