Thanks. I do have linux experience and I have read about Clonezilla. I definitely plan to clone, reformat, and recover several times on guinea pig computers to get the practice and then when I have the dedicated Maya computer built I will do the same everytime I install or change the configs to ensure a controlled workspace environment. Question What is a disk image supposed to look like if correctly cloned? And do you know if the free version of clonezilla will suffice for this particular procedure?