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Skriven 2007-04-29 23:08:00 av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GORDON HUFF
Ärende: Re: Acronis.
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GH>-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to TOM WALKER <=-

GH> JP>         When you do a clone, Tom, it is bootable. If you clone it
GH> JP>     back, that new cloned HD WILL be bootable. The bootable rescue CD
GH> JP>     is bootable and will see USB ports, I just tried it. No DOS
GH> JP>     required, darn !

GH>When you make an image of a bootable disk, it may or may
GH>not boot, depending. When you restore that image to a
GH>bootable disk, the bootable disk will boot.

GH>When you make a clone of a bootable disk, you end up with a
GH>disk, which may or may not boot, depending. When you restore
GH>that clone to a bootable disk, the bootable disk will boot.

GH>There are two differences. First, in one case, you click the
GH>restore and backup buttons. In the other case, you click
GH>the clone button twice. Second, the use of compression is
GH>more straight forward with an image. An image is just a file.
GH>File compression is routine. Alternately, you could use a
GH>compressed file system - sorta like M$ DoubleSpace or
GH>Stacker (or the xfs (?) file system on the Knoppix disks.)

Gordon,

For a while I used Stacker on my 486 box, can't remember how long, but I
finally UnStacked it when I saw that the .ZIP files I had downloaded
were not compressed any further, and I had a lot of those on the 2 HDs
in the box.

Both of those HDs are nearly full but I don't think I'll STAC the 486
box again.   ;-)

GH>I previously suggested repartitioning your hard drive.
GH>I was thinking something like Partition Magic but you
GH>could do this easily while testing your backups. After
GH>you're convinced you can backup and restore your hard drive
GH>at 250 GB, you can repartition with FDISK or the WinXP
GH>Drive Manager and restore to your new size and not
GH>lose anything.

Thanks, I will keep your suggestion about repartitioning the 250GB HD in
the XP box on my ROUNDTUIT list when I get more confident.

One thing I just thought about is when I restored files back to a HD on
the 468 DOS/Windows 3.1 box (I THINK) it lays all the files in one
continous strip (so to speak) on the HD and I think from looking at
Windows 95 DEFRAG Win95 and probably this XPMCE 2002 SP2 box probably
puts different kinds of prograns in several sections of the HD.

Probably XP (or Win95) would juggle the files all around the first time
the computer was turned on after a Restore to suit its self.


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