Using Casper 5 disk-cloning program to clone multi-partitioned HDD
Mike Torello wrote:
WaIIy wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:19:41 -0600, Mike Torello
wrote:
WaIIy wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:41:49 -0700, "Bill in Co."
wrote:
WaIIy wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:35:38 -0700, "Bill in Co."
wrote:
WaIIy wrote:
I have the option to clone the drive or copy it. I copied it to an
existing partition on my second internal drive.
I think the message for copying reads something like "copy a
partition"
so I just copied the whole C drive which is one partition to
an existing partition on my second drive (which has 2 partitions).
OK, then presumably Casper handles it behind the scenes by first
deleting that partition and then creating it WHEN it copies the
source
drive partition to the destination drive. (In contrast, using
Boot
It NG, which
does less hand holding, *you* must FIRST mark that space as
"Unallocated" on the destination drive (or delete the partition
there),
and only THEN will it
do the partition copy operation.
In my case, I copied (not cloned) the C drive to a partition (D) on
my
destination drive. I have D and E on my destination drive.
The existing partition I copied to was and is 37 gigs, the copy
takes
up 27 gigs
That's because the pre-existing partition there was deleted in the
copy
partition operation (and effectively recreated as this new and
smaller
one).
"Was and is" The destination drive had partition D of 37 gigs. The
copy was 27 gigs. The partition is still 37 gigs.
Casper didn't touch it.
Then it's not a true "partition copy" in the normal usage of the term,
since the source and destination partitions are NOT identical. If
what
you said is true, then apparently it's only copying the data contents
of
what's inside the partition, and is NOT making identical partitions.
(I'm talking about the size of the partition here, NOT the total size
of
the data inside!. For example, my main C: partition is 40 GB in
size,
but only half of it is in use at this point (about 20 GB of data).
I agree, the partitions are not identical.
The stuff in them seems to be, although my copy is not bootable from
the
outset.
I "think" "possibly" it can be made bootable, but not quite sure.
It's gotta be. What about when you copy a single-partitioned system
disk to a partition on a second drive.
It's not an image. If it ain't bootable, what good is it as a
backup!?
I'm talking the "Copy" not the clone.
From looking at both options as they appear in the User Guide, there's
no difference.
Sigh, I think you're hopeless. Didn't you just say that? :-)
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