In a message on Thursday 02-18-16 Jean Parrot said to Holger Granholm:

GM OC,

JP>  I am right, you can copy/move back any one file from a clone to the
JP> Source. I have done it. The another good thing in cloning, is that
JP> empty space is not cloned, totally disregarded.

I have'nt had a strong urge to clone anything on my Lenovo/XPpro laptop,
since I haven't made any changes to the operating system, but I made a
clone quite recently. Normal backups have been the rule.

On this OS/2-BBS machine I have a mirror HD, so backups are automatic.

JP> I do this too when I see this phantom partition created by W-10 at
JP> the end of the C:\. I use Gparted and I will make it "deleted", it
JP> then shows as Unallocated space and Acronis will not clone that
JP> partition.

Yes, I've also seen that phantom partition, but it only occupies 450 Mb,
so I've left it there.

I used Easeus Partition Master to split the 160 Gb HD into a 25 Gb boot
partition, and a 25 Gb partition for programs, leaving the rest of it
free.

The HD should of course have been partitioned from the start, but it
wasn't my machine at that time. This led to the DVD drive getting the
letter D, and it's stuck there.

Later, a phantom CD/DVD has been added, not by me, but IIRC has not been
assigned a letter, so my backups go to external HD's. The first backup
went right before I started fiddling with the machine, to an external
160 Gb HD, later I have backed up the boot partition to a 40 Gb external
HD htat is divided into two partitions, F and G.

JP>    Granted, this copy to a non-source directory has to be data only,
JP> any folder needing Registry contact is a no-go, you knew this.

I have used Gparted B4 but I'll try the same you did with the phantom
partition, but with the Easeus program to see how it copes with that.
I can always repair possible damage, if it happens, with Gparted.


JP>     Have a great day.

You too!

73 de Sam

VE2NIC de OH0NC ..._._

aka Holger

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