Re: Partition size for cloned drive



The word clone is ambiguous. What you are doing is imaging. The OP wants to
do Copy Drive, sometimes called cloning.

Brian


"Star Fleet Admiral Q" <Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NO-SPAM)@(SPAM-NOT)hotmail.com>
wrote in message news:uhOtoAgSFHA.3560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Not necessarily - the only Norton product I use is Ghost 2k4 and 2k5 -
> both of these allow you to clone partition data/setup to what is actually
> occupied (aka in use). On top of that, it gives you compression ability,
> to make what you save smaller that what it actually occupies. The only
> caveat, is you must restore the data to a like drive, formatted the same
> and using the same cluster size, otherwise the restore fails. You can, go
> into the ghost file itself, with the ghost browser, and restore specific
> files and/or folders - all very similar to a backup. Lastly Ghost 2k5
> added the hot clone ability (in other words XP doesn't have to shutdown,
> do the clone, and reboot where earlier versions did), where a virtual file
> system copy is made, then this is what is cloned to the backup location.
> Unlike other modern Norton products, I'm very satisfied with this software
> and its abilities.
>
> --
>

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