WaIIy wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:52:11 -0700, "Bill in Co."
wrote:

For one thing, the partiton has to be active to be bootable and you
can only have one active partition on a disk AFAIK.

Well, maybe Anna can weigh in on this. I assume Casper has some way of
keeping the destination drive partition marked active and yet its not
being
a problem, IF that drive is being used as the destination drive.

Well, the destination drive IS active and doesn't cause any problem in
my case, even when the drive was inside my computer.

No, it's not the drive itself being active, it's a special bit in the
partition table on the hard drive, marking it (or rather, that partition) as
being active (80 hex), so that it is bootable. If that disk drives
partition's bit isn't set (80 hex), it won't be bootable. Presumably with
Casper it can somehow be set (in the destination drive), and yet the
internal, currently bootable drive, also stays set, of course (or it
wouldn't boot). But normally only ONE drive partition is allowed to be
set, or so I thought.