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Evening All! I would like to ask for some help relating to a cloning issue, which is doing my head in! But first, some short background: I have a 12-year old Dell OptiPlex 990 SFF, purchased in 2011. Apart from a couple of years spent in storage, the machine has been left running literally 24/7...

Requirements: I do a monthly clone of my data drive as a just-in-case of hdd failure, fire etc. Use to use Macrium Reflect but as that is no longer free; nor do they offer a lifetime license; I'd like an alternate option. Looked at the following so far: Clonezilla - I really dislike this...

hope the image works once in windows desktop etc it all works fine just at the start up which is unreadable... any advice etc on this would be awesome please? https://imgur.com/a/1gze7Lv not sure how to get pic to show in post!!

Not strictly non-removable but a major strip down to get it out - never attempted on one Lenovo laptop and only attempted once on an Asus Eee to change original hard drive for an SSD. I have 2 PCs, and 2 portables. The PCs are easy - every now and then I clone the OS SSD using an SSD of...