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Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:34:07 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Archiving a volume...?

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Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
> Ray,
>
> I just reread this thread. I think I misunderstood the concept of
> Cloning. I was thinking of cloning my boot partition. I think you are
> referring to cloning the entire HDD. Or am I still mistaken?

PM has a "copy" function. DFSEE has a "clone function. Both do a
bib-for-bit copy of partitions. They are not interested in files. I
never try to copy\clone an entire HDD as a single operation. I don't
even know if you can.

If you install your boot manager\OS selector, and copy all of the
partitions you will have a complete backup HDD, a copy of the
original. It will boot all OSs just like the original.

If you just want to store copies of selected partitions, then create
an extended partition on the second HDD large enough to hold every
thing you want to save. Copy as many partitions as you want to free
space in that extended partition. You can access the saved partition
and copy, delete or change files, but don't try to boot it unless you
have the HDD setup like the original, but then you would have the case
described above.

If a boot partition of your working HDD develops a problem, delete it,
and copy the partition you saved on the storage HDD back to the
working HDD where you copied it from originally. In PM you will have
to shrink the saved partition by one sector in order for it to copy
back - you can't put a 10G peg in a 10G hole, it needs some clearance.
You may have to reactivate your OS selector.

Ray

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