Windows 10: Running alternative clone hard drive on same computer

I was just thinking of making a clone of my Win 10 hard drive and running the program on alternative months. In other words run one version for a month then swapping drives and using the clone for the next month. All my files are saved on a NAS drive and the hard drives are in a removable caddy making it easy to swap drives. This way if a hard drive fails I always have a back up ready to go without having to reinstall from a backup. Each month I can check for updates so both hard drives will be up to date. All this is on the same desk top computer.

Are there any problems doing this.

Thanks Bob

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Input/Output Error 0xc00000e9

I went to HP Support. They suggested, that my hard drive could be failing. I went to my computer geek and he confirmed my hard drive was failing. HP suggested that I try clone my old hard drive to a new hard drive (assuming it was failing) before it got
so bad that it could not be cloned. It could not be cloned. I was able to save all my documents and pictures from the old hard drive. I have a new hard drive now which is up and running in Windows 10 with all my same programs and documents and pictures.

 

Windows 10 won't boot "Repairing disk errors this might take more than an hour to complete"

I cloned my old drive on the newly purchased drive. I did not run chkdsk /r before using the drive. Should I run anyways now that I have already cloned the hard drive? Do you know what might be causing this problem with my new hard drive? The drive cloning
seems to have been successful because in windows File explorer it say that the newly cloned drive has the same amount of free space and used space as the old one and when I clone the name of the partition is the same. Could I try booting from the newly cloned
drive? Would that affect any of my files on the newly cloned drive? I also realized that when I used the "Disks" application in an Ubuntu I noticed that the drive that I have installed Windows 10 temporarily that I know is failing has about 55 bad sectors
or disk errors. My old hard drive still only has 29 bad sectors or disk errors, which is the same number that it had a couple of weeks ago or maybe even a month. Could the 55 bad sectors or disk errors on the hard drive with temporary installation of windows
be the cause even though it is not "drive 3." ?

 

IT's called mirroring. If you install the second harddrive as a mirrored drive, you would not have to do what you're talking about. The OS would do it for you. You might check it out and see if it will work for you.

 

Tried to make a clone using a USB HDD docking unit but could not clone due to allocation size errors. Apparently this is a problem with these USB docking units. I tried both Macrium and Acronis both had the same allocation errors. I had a spare My Passport drive so I made a system image and restored to my new hard drive. Now I have 2 full versions of my system. Each 1st of month I will swap drive to keep them up to date.

Thanks Robert