Ping Anna re: Casper

Anna, I just looked at the PDF file on Casper before getting ready to
install it (or at least seriously considering doing so), but if I read this
right, it cannot backup a partition, but only the entire drive - is that
correct? The Casper PDF file shows only two options for the program -
copy entire disk, or copy a specific drive. And if that's the case, I can't
use it, since I have only one internal HD with four partitions on it (C, D,
E, F), and I *only* want to backup the C: partition (to a USB external hard
drive enclosure - for just the C: partition)

On Apr 7, 9:27*pm, "Bill in Co." <not_really_h...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Anna, I just looked at the PDF file on Casper before getting ready to
> install it (or at least seriously considering doing so), but if I read this
> right, it cannot backup a partition, but only the entire drive - is that
> correct? * * The Casper PDF file shows only two options for the program -
> copy entire disk, or copy a specific drive. *And if that's the case, I can't
> use it, since I have only one internal HD with four partitions on it (C, D,
> E, F), and I *only* want to backup the C: partition (to a USB external hard
> drive enclosure - for just the C: partition)

I thought it was clearly established LONG ago that Casper was a
CLONING tool.

Cloning is for entire disks, not for partitions.

"PD43" wrote:
> I thought it was clearly established LONG ago that Casper was a
> CLONING tool.
>
> Cloning is for entire disks, not for partitions.

That may be true for Acronis' True Image, but not for other
cloners such as Casper or Ghost. The latter 2 cloning utilities
can clone individual partitions - and any installed OS on them
can be booted if the original could be.

*TimDaiels*

"Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@SpamMeNot.com> wrote in message
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> "PD43" wrote:
>> I thought it was clearly established LONG ago that Casper was a
>> CLONING tool.
>>
>> Cloning is for entire disks, not for partitions.
>
> That may be true for Acronis' True Image, but not for other
> cloners such as Casper or Ghost. The latter 2 cloning utilities
> can clone individual partitions - and any installed OS on them
> can be booted if the original could be.
>
> *TimDaiels*

Acronis TrueImage/Disk Director can clone partitions.

"Bill in Co." wrote:
> Anna, I just looked at the PDF file on Casper before getting ready to install
> it (or at least seriously considering doing so), but if I read this right, it
> cannot backup a partition, but only the entire drive - is that correct?
> The Casper PDF file shows only two options for the
> program - copy entire disk, or copy a specific drive. And if that's
> the case, I can't use it, since I have only one internal HD with four
> partitions on it (C, D, E, F), and I *only* want to backup the C:
> partition (to a USB external hard drive enclosure - for just the C:
> partition)

See page 23 of the User Guide.

"hard disk" in the User Guide means the "hard drive".
"drive" means what MyComputer calls a Local Disk, i.e
a partition such as "C:", "D:", "F:", "G:", etc.

The GUI gives the user the option of copying the "entire hard disk"
or "a specific drive".

IOW, Casper can clone all the partitions plus the MBR or just a
single partition.

*TimDaniels*

"Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@SpamMeNot.com> wrote:

>> Cloning is for entire disks, not for partitions.
>
> That may be true for Acronis' True Image, but not for other
>cloners such as Casper or Ghost. The latter 2 cloning utilities
>can clone individual partitions - and any installed OS on them
>can be booted if the original could be.

Not according to what I read on the Casper site.

"Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote:

>Acronis TrueImage/Disk Director can clone partitions.

Yeah... all of them at the same time, i.e., the whole disk to another
whole disk.

"Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@SpamMeNot.com> wrote:

> See page 23 of the User Guide.
>
> "hard disk" in the User Guide means the "hard drive".
> "drive" means what MyComputer calls a Local Disk, i.e
> a partition such as "C:", "D:", "F:", "G:", etc.

ENTIRE drive. All partitions.

Note also that the ENTIRE destination drive is used.

"PD43" <pauld1943@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote:
>
>>Acronis TrueImage/Disk Director can clone partitions.
>
> Yeah... all of them at the same time, i.e., the whole disk to another
> whole disk.

Nope, one partition to another partition.

"Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@SpamMeNot.com> wrote:


> IOW, Casper can clone all the partitions plus the MBR or just a
>single partition.

I just read the entire user manual, and it DOES look as if it can do
partitions, so I was wrong (I think).

Page 5 (and others): selecting either the entire disk or a "drive".

HOWEVER, the ONLY examples it shows in that manual are full-disk
clones.

I wonder why?