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nw MN | Make sure you hook up the new drive then go to disk management and format it to the correct file system. If the dell is using FAT and your drive is formatted to NTFS it could do what you decribe. If that is all good you might try downloading a different cloning software, and see if that will do it. The one I use is macrium reflect, I highly recommend it.
If backup is your only goal and you don't intend to swap in the second hard drive, you could simply create an image of the drive with the same software, rather than a complete clone, and put it on a flash drive. The program will also make a recovery disc for you. Simply boot from the recovery disc, select the image file from the flash drive, and boom back in business. It's much quicker to make an image (obviously a much smaller file), you could store many images, one for factory defaults, and make a new one every week or whatever for incremental backups. You can even restore onto a new drive using your image in case of a drive failure.
** on edit: One thing you can't do with an image is pick and choose files off of it, it is an all or nothing type of deal.
Edited by OlsonKrist 4/10/2013 21:09
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Hard drive cloning Windows 7 ?
