"Diamontina Cocktail" wrote:
> "Timothy Daniels" wrote:
>> "Diamontina Cocktail" wrote:
>>> "Timothy Daniels" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "John" wrote:
>>>>> I need to disk image my xp pro so I can restore easy in case
>>>>> of a crash. I have two questions;
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. My xp pro drive has two partitions and WINDOWS folder
>>>>> is in the first partition. Would disk imaging the first partition do
>>>>> or do I need to do the whole disk to ensure MBR images as well?
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. What is a good disk imaging software? I was considering
>>>>> Acornis True Image Workstation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It depends on which cloning utility you use. Acronis True
>>>> Image clones the entire hard drive. Ghost and Casper can
>>>
>>> TI also allows you to backup single partitions or just folders.
>>
>>
>> What do you mean by "backup"? True Image can make
>> *image files* of a partition - which must go through the
>> "restore" process before use. Because images are *files*,
>
> You obviously dont fully understand the program. As I said, it can backup JUST
> files or JUST folders if you want.
And you don't understand what a clone is and how True Image
does its cloning. I suggest you download the User's Guide from
http://us1.download.acronis.com/pdf/TrueImage10.0_ug.en.pdf
and read chapter 13. You will see that there is no provision for
cloning just a single partition and putting on another HD which
already has other partitions. True Image instead will copy *all*
the partitions from the source HD and put the copies on the
destination HD either as the same sizes they had on the source
HD or proportionately expanded to fill the destination HD.
Cloning is not a new feature of True Image, but file and folder
backups apparently are, but they are not bootable and therefore
are not "clones" of a bootable OS. Your confusion stems from
thinking that "clone" and "copy" mean the same thing.
*TimDaniels*