How to use Acronis to backup o/s ?

Ooops, slight correction below. I meant Extended Partition below, and
corrected below.

Bill in Co. wrote:
Anna wrote:
"WaIIy" wrote in message
...
I'm very confused. I think you are saying I can clone my C drive to a
partition on another drive.

I didn't think I could do that.

Let's say my C drive has three partitions. I don't think you can clone
that to one partition on another drive. Doesn't make sense to me.

My understanding is a CLONE wipes out the destination drive.

I guess I need to understand when you mean COPY and when you mean CLONE
in your descriptions above.
or, I'm just confused


Wally:
Yes, as I've tried to explain, Casper 5 does have the capability of doing
exactly that.

You can set up as many partitions as you desire on your destination
drive -
say a USB external HDD - and clone those three partitions (presumably
encompassing the entire source disk, yes?) to *any* partition that you
set
up on your destination HDD. The *only* requirement is that the
destination
partition is, of course, sufficient in size to hold the contents of your
source HDD, i.e., the three partitions. In other words you're cloning the
disk containing the three partitions to a single partition on the
destination drive if that's what you want. The remaining partitions on
the
destination drive can then be used for *any* purpose you want.

On the other hand, if you wanted to clone *individual* partitions on the
source disk to a particular partition on the destination drive you could
also do that. It would simply be a partition-to-partition clone.

Hope I've made this clear.
Anna

Well then it appears I didn't understand it fully. I was under the
impression you could EITHER do a partition-by-partition cloning operation,
OR clone the entire HD with or without several partitions over the
destination disk.

And NOT that you could clone, for example 5 individual source drive
partitions over to a SINGLE partition on the destination drive, UNLESS
that
one is just a big Extended partition that incorporates the five
partitions - but
it's still really 5 partitions on the destination drive that were
effectively cloned, and not just one, and each would presumably have a
different drive letter assoicated with it. Or maybe it depends on how
you
look at it.