Disk Clone - drive letter assignment
Re: Disk Clone - drive letter assignment
I'm confused. My understanding is Windows OS partitions should be hidden from each other to prevent cross talk. But here we have Windows OS seeing each other. Has the teaching changed regarding hiding Windows OS from each other?
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Re: Disk Clone - drive letter assignment
Brian K wrote:
> I'm confused. My understanding is Windows OS partitions should be hidden
> from each other to prevent cross talk. But here we have Windows OS seeing
> each other. Has the teaching changed regarding hiding Windows OS from each
> other?
That hasn't really changed. If you want a normal copy/clone you wouldn't have it changed, which means you wouldn't want Windows seeing it. However, there can be cases where you might need/want easy access to the older copy. It may not be a swap in identical copy type backup, for example. There may also be other backups.
I would add that if easy drive access is all that's needed, a backup can be mounted using TBIHD and show up like a regular drive. Of course, you would still have the drive letter assignment issue since it would reassign each mount.
> I'm confused. My understanding is Windows OS partitions should be hidden
> from each other to prevent cross talk. But here we have Windows OS seeing
> each other. Has the teaching changed regarding hiding Windows OS from each
> other?
That hasn't really changed. If you want a normal copy/clone you wouldn't have it changed, which means you wouldn't want Windows seeing it. However, there can be cases where you might need/want easy access to the older copy. It may not be a swap in identical copy type backup, for example. There may also be other backups.
I would add that if easy drive access is all that's needed, a backup can be mounted using TBIHD and show up like a regular drive. Of course, you would still have the drive letter assignment issue since it would reassign each mount.