Windows 10: Clone C Drive to a second Identical drive F and boot from either one

I want to clone C to F and have the option to boot from either drive.It appears that a couple of years ago NVidia decided to cease supporting 3D playback in their drivers. Of course I was overseas on an extended holiday and missed the whole event. I occasionally watch 3D Blu-ray movies on my 100 gig drive when I go to my farm. I was somewhat surprised that we could get sucked in by the provider of a major piece of hardware not to mention my two Nvidia 3D capable screens, 3D projector, emitter, a dozen pairs of 3D glasses and the 3DTVplay software.My time is limited

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Cloning Drive C:/

I bought a new hard drive so I could clone my main hard drive. The new drive was formatted after putting into an external hard drive bay connected using USB cable. I right clicked on my C:/ drive & chose copy. I then right clicked on my new hard drive F:/
and chose paste. It then started to copy C:/ to F:/, but it eventually failed saying I wasn't authorized to access certain files even though I'm the Administrator of my computer. It also said I had a bad sector on C:/ drive. I then reformatted C:/ & tried
to make a clone drive onto F:/. All that did was copy over ...

$RECYCLEBIN, Boot, Recovery, System Volume 1, bootmgr, BOOTNXT, BOOTSECT.BAK

It appears to me that all it did was make a boot disk in case C:/ drive failed to boot I could have the computer boot using drive F:/ which is not what I wanted. I already have drive E:/ for that in the same bay housing as F:/.

What I want is an exact clone of C:/ drive, every program & file on it!

Anyone got any suggestions?

 

clone internal ssd C: drive to identical internal D:

I have a new desktop PC with 2 identical 500 GB SSD drives.
I would like to create a copy/clone? of the C: drive onto the 2nd (D drive to that if C: fails I do not have reinstall everything.

Is this possible?

If so can I use native Win 10 software to do this or do I need 3rd party software?

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f drive

Hello Kathy,

Based on the information you have provided in your post; we need to do further investigation. To assist you better, we'd like to know the following:

• Have you tried using a third party software to manage the disk partition?
• Did you format the drive?

We suggest that you check for the drive in the Disk Management and look if it appears. Follow these steps:

• Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
• Press Windows+R key and type diskmgmt.msc and then click OK.

Look if the Drive F: appears and check if it is unallocated.

Looking forward to your update.