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Cloning from a partition?

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Hello,

I work for a post production company and everytime we get new clients we give them a fresh image by cloning a drive.

My current drive layout is as follows with separate partitions for the different versions of software we use (picture also attached)

|| System || (C:) Avid MC 6 || (I:) Avid MC 5.5 || (J:) Avid MC 6.5 ||

Now my question is,

Is there a way using True Image that I can clone just one of these partitions + the system partition onto a spare drive? Obviously if I just cloned the (C:) partition on it's own this will not be bootable as I will still need the system partition. Any help would be greatly appreciated, unfortunately the trial does not allow me to use the cloning tool (or so i believe by reading the user manual) so I cannot test this out for myself. The machines we use are HP Z800's.

Cheers

Guy

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If you clone, you get a disk as a result. So you can only clone full disk.
What you can do is a disk and partition backup. This technology is the same as the clone process but it keeps the data in an archive file (a tib file) that you can manage like any other file. You can restore the image to the same disk or another disk, even on another computer (in that case you need the universal restore of ATI Premium).
A tib file can be mounted using ATI in Windows and you get a fully functional disk, it can also be opened when ATI is installed in Windows and browsed in a way similar to the way Windows explorer works.

Thanks for your reply,

We currently use a bit a software that does create an archive file just wondered if there was a way we could clone as it's quicker to update the image. Thought this might be the case.

Cheers

Guy

Remember, a clone doesn't update any image. If you clone disk A to disk B, B can be used instead of A: the disk is a clone. After changes to A', if you clone again, you obtain B', and all data from B is lost (you cannot go back to the A state)
When you backup, you store the image of A on disk B, you cannot use disk B instead of A. When you run the backup again, another archive files is created on B. At that point you can restore to the A or to the A' state.