When to image a hard drive, and when to clone it

Cloning copies the complete contents of one drive—the files, the partition tables and the master boot record—to another: a simple, direct duplicate. Imaging copies all of that to a single, very large file on another drive. You can then restore the image back onto the existing drive or onto a new one. More information from this article on PCWorld.com. Click the link to read it PCWorld.com