Acronis 7/XP Questions

[Timothy Daniels]

The Western Digital/My Book Premium Edition USB connected
500GB hard drive shipped with "a FAT32 partition for full drive
capability". Are you saying that Casper 4 will (my words) remove
everything off the hard drive and start over in NTSF? If so, that
will make my life a whole lot easier.

My new hard drive is now registered and I only need to obtain software for
making backups at this point...

If you are making a clone, the formatting information is treated
as just data, and it is copied right along with what the user considers
to be "data". So for a clone, the formatting on the destination medium
is not changed. But for an image file - which is one BIG file that is
stored like any other file - the format of the image file on the destination
medium corresponds to the formatting of that medium, although its
contents retain the original formatting information which will be
restored when the image is restored.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Anna]

The Western Digital/My Book Premium Edition USB connected 500GB hard drive
shipped with "a FAT32 partition for full drive capability". Are you
saying that Casper 4 will (my words) remove everything off the hard drive
and start over in NTSF? If so, that will make my life a whole lot easier.

My new hard drive is now registered and I only need to obtain software for
making backups at this point. Again, thanks for explaining Casper 4 to me
and others in this thread.

Frog

Frog:
Absolutely. It's another one of the advantages of a disk-cloning program
such as the Casper 4 program. For all practical purposes, the recipient of
your disk-clone - your 500 GB external HDD - will simply be a copy of your
"source" HDD - the disk that you are cloning from. If that "source" disk is
NTFS-formatted (as apparently it is) then that file system will carry over
to the cloned external HDD. It's as simple as that.

The reason your external HDD came FAT32-formatted from the factory was that
users might be using Win9x/Me operating systems that won't recognize a NTFS
file system. WindowsXP will recognize a FAT32-formatted system, however, the
general recommendation is that for efficiency's sake one's XP OS should be
formatted NTFS as yours is.

I honestly don't know what you mean when you say "My new hard drive is now
registered". I assume you're referring to some sort of registration process
with Western Digital. Is that it?

Anyway, give the Casper 4 program a try by using the trial version available
at http://www.fssdev.com. You might also want to try out other disk-cloning
and/or disk-imaging programs such as the Acronis program that has been
discussed in this thread. See http://www.acronis.com

Good luck.
Anna

 

[Frog]

Frog:
Absolutely. It's another one of the advantages of a disk-cloning program
such as the Casper 4 program. For all practical purposes, the recipient of
your disk-clone - your 500 GB external HDD - will simply be a copy of your
"source" HDD - the disk that you are cloning from. If that "source" disk is
NTFS-formatted (as apparently it is) then that file system will carry over
to the cloned external HDD. It's as simple as that.

The reason your external HDD came FAT32-formatted from the factory was that
users might be using Win9x/Me operating systems that won't recognize a NTFS
file system. WindowsXP will recognize a FAT32-formatted system, however, the
general recommendation is that for efficiency's sake one's XP OS should be
formatted NTFS as yours is.

I honestly don't know what you mean when you say "My new hard drive is now
registered". I assume you're referring to some sort of registration process
with Western Digital. Is that it?

You are correct. Thanks again for help me with this subject. Frog