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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. |
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