Richie Hardwick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:56:29 -0700, "Bill in Co."
wrote:

Now the user has a 250 GB USBEHD which he or she intends to be the
recipient of one or more clones (or partitions) of the user's source
HDD.

And strictly (or at least normally) speaking, that means each of the
three
partitions must be preserved on the backup too, and not combined into one
partition there.

They won't be combined.


And end up with 3 partitions on the destination drive. So when you say
this, it sounds like youre saying it's combining 3 into 1, but it's not.
So you are saying in this example it will copy the contents of the 3
source
partitions and merge them all together inside 1 partition on the
destination
drive, effectively destroying the previously-separated (by using
different
partition) data. Not nice. UNLESS the user wanted to consolidate all
of
the 3 partitions.

They WON'T be combined.

3. Still another option the user will have with the Casper program is
creating a partition on the destination HDD only sufficient in size to
contain the *actual* data contents of a source drive's partition.

The actual data of all 3 partitions in the source? But why would
someone
want to do that anyways, unless they were trying to merge the 3
partitions
into one, which sounds quite atypical.

They WON'T BE COMBINED.

Again, no problem. A new partition
of 150 GB will be created on the destination HDD to contain those cloned
contents. Naturally the previously created 120 GB partition will simply
disappear.

Again, I don't know why anyone would want to do that. Put them all into
one
partition on the backup.

SIGH


If they then wanted to restore that back to the source drive, by
recloning
it all back to the source drive, how would Casper be able to know (or
even
could it) what to put back in EACH of the 3 separate source drive
partitions?

Because they WERE NOT COMBINED DURING THE CLONING.

Wow.

You're impossible.

The 3 partitions are proportionally reduced in size to fit the
partition they're being cloned to. Why is that so difficult to grasp?

Anyone wanting the particulars of this person's problem
can call my hotline (Google it) and for a fee I can give
you all the details.

Miss Cleo
--
Psychic Extraordinaire

LOL. I thought you said you were retired? Clearly you are NOT of the
FDR generation, as your behavior is more like that of a newage boomer.