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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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