WINDOWS 10 BOOTABLE CLONE FREE

Your stated plan (cloning to a partition) would be ideal as a secondary measure, so that if malware destruction was to occur, there would be no chance of having your failsafe affected. To protect against drive failure only rather than malware, you could do what you've already thought of, but I would stress the importance of having an image or cloned disk somewhere external to your system for total protection for the reasons I've already stated. Follow that by restoring all files lost since the clone was created using your existing Backblaze solution and you're done. No configuration or changes in BIOS needed. If cloned to a removed drive, then system recovery would be as simple as removing the failed system drive and replacing it with the cloned drive. Either will achieve your goal and safeguard your system in a way which will make recovery from any disaster very easy indeed. Another popular cloning solution is Clonezilla. I've found it very reliable and easy to use.

WINDOWS 10 BOOTABLE CLONE FREE

That's your safest option as if your computer was to get hit with a large power surge, or a destructive type of malware such as Ransomware, then every drive and partition connected to your system could be potentially ruined.ДЇrom experience, I'd suggest Macrium Reflect Free as ideal cloning software. I'm not familiar with Backblaze and it's capabilities, nor of how much storage space you have available in the cloud, but with that said, here's what I'd recommend.Д¬lone your system drive to another secondary drive and then physically remove and store the cloned drive separately from your computer. You're already on the right track by using something like Backblaze to safeguard your personal data, however, if you're not already creating an image of your entire system drive, then you would be faced with reinstalling all of your applications in the event of a disaster, as you've just realised.

Windows 10 bootable clone