Re: cloning to a larger drive
- From: "Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:05:59 -0700
"Nonny" wrote:
"Timothy Daniels" wrote:
"Jo-Anne Naples" wrote:
I'm using Windows XP with SP3. I have a 60GB internal
hard drive in my 5-year-old Dell desktop computer and
am planning to buy a couple USB external hard drives
(I have USB2) to be used for cloning the internal drive, in case of a crash
or
other disaster of that sort.
First, definitions: The the purposes of this NG, "to clone"
means to make an exact sector-by-sector copy of a partition
(or at least a copy of the non-empty sectors), and the
resulting copy will be directly bootable if the original partition
was bootable. That means that the boot sector as well as
the entire file structure and formatting have been copied.
"To image" means that the entire contents of the entire file
structure have been copied, perhaps the boot sector as well,
and stored on archival media as the contents of a file - the
"image file". To save archival space, this file is frequently,
if not usually, compressed. This file, since it's only a file,
must be "restored" to an uncompressed file structure on
a bootable medium before it can be booted or otherwise
used again. The usuall archival medium for an image file is
a stack of CDs or DVDs, although a hard drive (internal,
external, or USB/Firewire) will do as well. Be aware, though,
that various backup utilities - and their dedicated forums -
don't adhere to this terminology and may use "clone" and
"image" interchangeably.
My questions:
1. If I buy a substantially larger external hard drive, will I be
able to clone my internal drive multiple times til the space is
filled, or is this something one can do only once--with
subsequent backup/clones writing over the earlier one?
[.....]
For both clones and images, multiple copies can be stored
on the same hard drive and overwritten just like any other
information. In the case of clones, multiple clones may exist
on the same hard drive, and it the one marked "active" has
the proper boot.ini entries, any one of them may be booted
from where they sit.
With Acronis True Image, only ONE clone at a time because it clones
disk to DISK - using the entire second disk.
One can store as many images as the second disk can hold.
For Acronis's True Image, yes - because it can't clone just
a partition. But for Acronis's Disk Director Suite 10, individual
partitions can be cloned, and multiple clones of the same
partition, made at different times, can be put on the target
hard drive, and each one can be booted from where it sits.
*TimDaniels*
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