Re: Using Drive Image to adjust space?

Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Timothy Daniels wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> Timothy Daniels wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>> Timothy Daniels wrote

>>>>>>> Notice, Terry, that Rod is saying "image file" and not "clone". This
>>>>>>> differentiating terminology is not used consistently from one copy
>>>>>>> utility to another,

>>>>>> Wrong with the mainstream utes.

>>>>> The most mainstream "ute" now is Ghost 9.0,
>>>>> and its User's Manual doesn't use the term "clone".

>>>> The term image file is used consistently between
>>>> Ghost and True Image, which is the next most
>>>> mainstream still current imager.

>>> And neither Ghost 9.0 nor True Image 8.0 (the most
>>> recent versions of those utilities) use the term "clone".
>>> Here is the User's Manual for True Image 8.0:
>>> http://us1.download.acronis.com/pdf/trueimage8.0_ug.en.pdf

>> That is just plain wrong, search on the word clone.

> Thanks for pointing that out, Rod, as it proves my point about there being no
> consistency among cloning utilities in the use of the term "clone".

No it doesnt. They both use the term image file consistently.
Ghost just uses the word copy instead of clone.

> Ghost doesn't refer to a "clone" at all,

Correct. It uses the word copy instead. No big deal.

> and True Image uses it to refer to a copy of an entire disk, not just a
> partition.

Sure.

> As a matter of fact, that particular feature is why I don't use Acronis's True
> Image for cloning - I clone just one partition from the source HD, and I put
> it among other partitions on the destination HD. That cannot be done in True
> Image without a 2-step process of first making an image file of the partition
> onto some media, and then "restoring" that image file onto the destination HD.

Irrelevant to what was being discussed there.

> With Ghost and Casper XP, that can be done in one step.

Ghost 9 cant in fact clone or copy an entire physical drive
and change the size of the partitions to what the user wants
them to be on the new larger hard drive in one step. That is
clearly just a choice the designers of both have made.

True Image is in fact much the more capabile with
cloning or copying without the use of an image file.

And it doesnt fail like Ghost 9 can do too.

> And since Casper XP is $20 cheaper than Ghost 9.0

Big deal.

> and it doesn't require Microsoft's .NET Framework to run (as Ghost 9.0 does),

And True Image doesnt either.

> I use it instead of Ghost. for all my cloning chores.

You do however want to do what few want to do.

Its hardly surprising that the designers
chose to do what most want to do.

> You can even download a free trial version from:
> www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp/

Just as true of True Image and Ghost. And they
are MUCH more capable than Casper XP as well.


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