Hi – I have four computers including my sister’s that I would like to make backups of the hard drive for in the event of a failure.
So I am trying to clone my main drive to a virtual hard disk so I can store the backups as single files on my storage drive and just open and clone onto a new drive HDD/SSD to put in the respective machines should their hard drives go down or corrupt.
I’m basically trying to store a virtual clone of a hard drive on a server that I can clone onto a new physical drive and boot from.
Problem is, when I reclone the VHD to a physical drive and install it on the system – it does not boot and says boot device not found. But when I clone the physical drive to another physical drive and install it then everything works fine and I boot up no problem. It’s like cloning to a virtual disk somehow gets rid of the boot.
Is there a way to do what I’m trying to accomplish here?