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Just realized the confusion: you make a bootable CD / DVD with AOMEI to boot the computer from with no OS on the new HDD - it contains the restore software which writes back the image.
The bootable is pretty tiny - it's Win PE, so about 350MB - and doesn't hold the image data.
I use a couple of external Seagate 2TB / 4TB USB drives to hold my images and backups (and unplug them when I'm finished so ransomware can't touch them)
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You can, but it's a little more complex to make a USB bootable - and it's been made more difficult since some viruses were spreading via bootable USB disks left plugged in at power up.
You're probably better with a CD / DVD if you can, as most systems will boot from it automatically.
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OK. Last question : you were saying the disk has to be the same size, is this an absolute requirement of the software or can I use a disk with larger size (or even smaller size, if I only clone the system partition ?) ?
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You can't (as far as I know) use a smaller drive than the partition you are copying from - 1L into a 500ml pot and all that - but bigger ones shouldn't be a problem. (But see the comments on Partition Magic above).
I'd strongly suggest imaging the whole disk to avoid the "But where is the background image of the lion I had on my desktop ?" type hassle! 
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If you go this route, be ready for, "Now I have to plug in this new thing too? Why?".
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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No, the usb thing is one-shot. Once I have replaced the disk, I will not need it anymore.
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I want to echo everything Griff says. But try to do a trial run or two so you know exactly how to proceed when a drive fails. That is not the time to learn the restore procedure. It is not complicated, but you need to be familiar with it, before you HAVE to use it the first time.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Trump's little palm sound like it has a grip on outrageous behaviour. [7]
Go! Go! Go!
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Tantrum ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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No, no it isn't. How did you get there?
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It was a wild guess - outrageous behaviour could be tantrum and tantrum has a lot of letters from trump in it
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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+5 Makes as much sense as the right answer normally does.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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HANDJOB?
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I'd really like to make you the winner for that!
Sorry, no.
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BLOW...I'll stop there. 
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Is it really so difficult? Though obtuse, I thought it's not too hard.
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Maybe our brains don't work like yours? 
I'll admit this has me stumped.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Maybe our brains don't work like yours?
You'd have to hope that was true.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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B'tard!
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I can't remember, are extra clues allowed with CCC? I cannot do the CCC tomorrow, no I cannot, as I will be tormenting a rather pleasant city somewhere to my North.
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Not normally, no - and Mastermind scores are FSOW not CCC.
But if you want and no-one answers, I'll put up the CCC tomorrow for you (I have a couple in reserve if you can't think of one)
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I hope Chris is going to answer. Any. Second. Now...
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GIMMICK ??
cheers,
Super
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You have 1W [white is right letter wrong place. I think]
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