Last October I went away on holiday to Turkey for a week, and I stupidly shut the machine down. The data is copied onto an external USB drive – a 2TB Western Digital Passport Ultra. Over the years I have employed various backup solutions, but most recently, I have been using Easeus Partition Master and Easeus Disk Copy Pro to perform a full clone of my D: drive on a regular basis. The machine runs Windows 11, which resides on a 250GB Samsung 860 PRO SSD. The WD Black contained my life-long data, formatted as a single NTFS partition of 1.82TB, and was basically my ‘Master Data’ drive. Again, I put this down to leaving the drive running undisturbed, 24/7. That too has lasted incredibly well, with over 80,000 hours of runtime on the clock.

During that time, with the exception of a power supply failure, it has never missed a beat.Īt the time of purchase, I replaced the OEM Seagate hard disk drive with a nice Western Digital 2TB Black, 7200RPM. Apart from a couple of years spent in storage, the machine has been left running literally 24/7 since it was new. I would like to ask for some help relating to a cloning issue, which is doing my head in!īut first, some short background here: I have a 12-year old Dell OptiPlex 990 SFF, purchased in 2011.

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