Need help to Clone a Drive. As a backup, please help??
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Posted by Crackles McFarly on July 12, 2007, 1:48 am
Please log in for more thread options and another much smaller one. The smallest partition is 3x [three times] the size of the OS and every currently on the drive. In other words, the smaller partition is more than big enough to accept the data. Question: Can I CLONE the main drive on to the other partition? It is assigned drive letter Z, so would this work or am I just plain crazy? thanks. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on July 12, 2007, 2:29 am
Please log in for more thread options Be a bit more clear about exactly what you're trying to do. In short, yes if the destination is larger than the source you can clone it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Crackles McFarly on July 14, 2007, 2:42 pm
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>On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:48:35 -0400, Crackles McFarly
> >>I have partitioned my drive into two sections. One very large section
>>and another much smaller one. >> >>The smallest partition is 3x [three times] the size of the OS and >>every currently on the drive. In other words, the smaller partition is >>more than big enough to accept the data. >> >>Question: >>Can I CLONE the main drive on to the other partition? >> >>It is assigned drive letter Z, so would this work or am I just plain >>crazy? >> >>thanks. >
>Be a bit more clear about exactly what you're trying to do. > >In short, yes if the destination is larger than the source >you can clone it. Have a c and z drive. c is main partition on drive, z is a smaller partition but still 3x the size of the data written to main drive c. Want to clone drive c to drive z partition as a form of backup. Was wondering if cloning would work since it's another partition and not another drive. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by SteveH on July 12, 2007, 5:01 am
Please log in for more thread options Crackles McFarly wrote:
> I have partitioned my drive into two sections. One very large section
> and another much smaller one. > > The smallest partition is 3x [three times] the size of the OS and > every currently on the drive. In other words, the smaller partition is > more than big enough to accept the data. > > Question: > Can I CLONE the main drive on to the other partition? > > It is assigned drive letter Z, so would this work or am I just plain > crazy? > > thanks. Yes you can, but why would you want to? If the drive fails you lose the main o/s and the backup. SO yes, you are crazy. :-) SteveH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Crackles McFarly on July 14, 2007, 2:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:01:28 GMT, "SteveH"
>Crackles McFarly wrote:
>> I have partitioned my drive into two sections. One very large section
>> and another much smaller one. >> >> The smallest partition is 3x [three times] the size of the OS and >> every currently on the drive. In other words, the smaller partition is >> more than big enough to accept the data. >> >> Question: >> Can I CLONE the main drive on to the other partition? >> >> It is assigned drive letter Z, so would this work or am I just plain >> crazy? >> >> thanks. >
>Yes you can, but why would you want to? If the drive fails you lose the main >o/s and the backup. SO yes, you are crazy. :-) Well its more likely a partition might get corrupt or I might be dumb and get a virus on main c partition. I read only and hidden the Z drive partition. If i'm crazy then ok. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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>and another much smaller one.
>
>The smallest partition is 3x [three times] the size of the OS and
>every currently on the drive. In other words, the smaller partition is
>more than big enough to accept the data.
>
>Question:
>Can I CLONE the main drive on to the other partition?
>
>It is assigned drive letter Z, so would this work or am I just plain
>crazy?
>
>thanks.