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Old January 30th 09, 03:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Richie Hardwick[_2_]
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Default 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
wrote:

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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