how dare Backupper repartition my destination drive when cloning!
I use Backupper Standard Edition 4.6.0 in a
PE environment from a USB stick.
Whenever I clone a (half full) 70 GB
partition onto an empty 70 GB partition, Backupper reduces the destination
partition to 68.36 GB and creates 1.64 GB of unallocated space. I've tried this
with different source and destination volumes. It always does that.
I went back to Backupper Standard Edition
4.0.6, which despite its version name is just 1 year older, also in PE
environment, and it did exactly the same.
It's easy to fix the repartition with
Windows Disk Management, but this should not be necessary. Cloning software
shouldn't repartition the destination drive when the user doesn't request it. It's
a scary nuisance. Have others encountered this bug?
Comments
As I recall when I installed Windows I used the installer to partition my internal drive. I must have chosen partitions of 70,000 MB. When I partitioned my external drive I used Disk Management and must have chosen 70 GB partitions. Since a GB is 1.024 MB, the partitions on the external drive are larger than those on the internal drive and Backupper did well to clone as it did.
Case closed.