As of DD12 boot CD, cloned volumes no long fit in the same space they always have!

I don't like mere file backups, so instead for many years now I've ALWAYS used Disk Director to copy entire disk partitions for backup. Sometimes I copy the partition(s) to elsewhere on the same disk, but usually to a different backup disk. And since I often want to copy/backup the system/boot partition, I usually use the bootable CD version of Disk Director to do so while also backing up other partitions at the same time.

With DD 10 and DD 11 (bootable CD or otherwise), it worked perfectly. My backup target disk contained old copies of the partitions to be backed up that were EXACTLY the same size as the source partitions, so I would first delete the old backup partition and then copy the source of precisely the same size to precisely the same location.

So that if I have a 230.00 GB partition, for example, in the middle of the source disk, I could always delete the old 230.00 GB partition on the target disk and then copy the 230.00 GB partition to the exactly 230.00 GB partition I just deleted.

But as of the DD 12 bootable CD, that no longer works!  If I try it, now the "Next" (or whatever) button remains grayed out, and it now always complains that 230.00 GB is not enough space for 230.00 GB!! As an unacceptable result, the ONLY way I can clone volumes with DD 12 is to mess with the disk space allotment until there's MORE than 230.00 GB of space on the target. I don't even know how MUCH more with any precision; it just has to be bigger!

This is INTOLERABLE. What the heck is going on with DD 12?