Using Casper 5 disk-cloning program to clone multi-partitioned HDD
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:05:46 -0500, WaIIy wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:49:07 -0600, Richie Hardwick
wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:42:10 -0500, WaIIy wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:36:45 -0600, Richie Hardwick
wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:32:05 -0500, WaIIy wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:22:36 -0600, Richie Hardwick
wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:18:09 -0500, WaIIy wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:12:30 -0600, Richie Hardwick
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:07:54 -0500, WaIIy wrote:
So... what was all that about how to clone a drive/disk to a single
partition, and then doing it again later to another partition... so
that one could keep "generational copies"??
I personally don't think you can do that. Maybe you can???
You own Casper, don't you? TRY it.
****, okay, I'll try it and report back.
Don't bother. It can be done... I did it yesterday to test it out.
Keeping multiple images with Acronis is much simpler if one wants that
ability.
Richie Hardwick
You can't boot the Copy, I just tried it.
I can boot my Clone, not my Copy.
You tried something else.
Nope. I used "Copy a specific drive".
To be bootable, it's gotta be in the Primary partition.
Trust me: ALL such copies will be "bootable" (an EXACT duplicate)
except for the above limitation - they HAVE to be if they are going to
be "reverse-clonable" to restore the system partition.
My second drive has D and E.
My copy is on D
It wouldn't boot.
That's all I know.
You did something wrong. It worked on mine yesterday and it just
worked again.
On TWO internal drives (I have four counting my system drive - plus
two externals).
Richie
Is the partition you booted from marked "Active" when you look in disk
management?
Ps It's hard to do something wrong when I just copied C to D.
I unplugged my C drive and plugged the second drive in that connector
on my MB.
"No boot device available"
Don't know what to tell you. It works fine here, so I absolutely KNOW
you're doing something wrong.
I even used Casper to make an "incremental clone" of yesterday's after
I installed a .NET update and a Defender update today.
Did you make an incremental Clone or incremental Copy?
You said you booted off a copy, not a clone.
sigh
I used COPY A SPECIFIC DRIVE.
I copied to an EXISTING PARTITION
Then I restarted, set the boot order, and booted to that partition.
I did it with a system disk with only a single partition AND a system
disk with two partitions (used Acronis Disk Director to add the second
partition).
Worked either way.
When I made the incremental clone, I used the shortcut from the first
COPY TO A SPECIFIC DRIVE to make it.
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