Object Copy

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You may copy any object in the Drives panel to any other object, if there is enough space on the target one.

Before Copy object to... becomes enabled on the Create menu, you need to enable writing.

To enable writing,

1 On the R-Studio main panel, select the Tools menu, then Settings, and select Enable Write on the Settings dialog box.
> The Copy object to... will be enabled on the Create menu.

Now objects can be copied.

 

Depending on the objects to copy and your tasks, you may do:

Binary (byte to byte copy)

An exact copy of the source object (or a part thereof) to the destination device (from its beginning or a specified offset). Any object may be copied to any object this way.

To perform a binary copy of an object,

1 Select Copy object to... on the Create menu
2 Select a source and destination objects on the Drives Copy Wizard panel and click the Next button
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Drives Copy Wizard
3 Select Binary (byte to byte) copy on the Copy Options dialog box, specify copy options, and click the Next button
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Copy options dialog box

Click to expand/collapse Copy options

Source

Copy whole object

Select this option if you want to copy the entire source object to the destination one

Copy range

Select this option if you want to copy a part of the source object

Offset

Specify the offset from which the source object data will be copied to the destination object

Size

Specify the size of the source object data which will be copied to the destination object

Destination

Offset

Specify the offset on the destination object to which the source object data will be copied

3 View the copy task settings on the Drives Copy Wizard and click the Finish button
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Drives Copy Wizard

or click the <Back button to edit the copy parameters

> R-Studio will start copying data from the source object to the destination one.

Smart partition copy

Only partitions can be copied with this option to other partitions or empty spaces. You may change some parameters of the the copied partition(s) on the destination drive.

To perform a smart partition copy of a partition,

1 Select Copy object to... on the Create menu
2 Select source and destination partitions on the Drives Copy Wizard panel and click the Next button
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Drives Copy Wizard
3 Select Smart partition copy on the Copy Options panel, specify copy options, and click the Next button
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Copy options dialog box

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Destination

Copy without stretching

Select this option if you want to copy the partition exactly to the destination place

Copy to:

Select this option if you want to change some parameters of the copied partition on the destination place

Free space before

Specify how much space will be left empty before the start of the copied partition

Partition size

Select this option and specify the new size of the copied partition

Partition type

Primary (Active)/ Primary/Logical

Specify the type of the partition to be copied. Do not change this setting unless you have serious reasons to do so.

3 View the copy task settings on the Drives Copy Wizard and click the Finish button
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Drives Copy Wizard

or click the <Back button to edit the copy parameters

> R-Studio will start copying data from the source partition to the destination place.

Smart drive copy

Only  whole drives  can be copied with this option to other drives. You may change some parameters of the copied drives.

To perform a smart drive copy of a hard drive,

1 Select Copy object to... on the Create menu
2 Select a source and destination hard drives on the Drives Copy Wizard panel and click the Next button
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Drives Copy Wizard
3 Select Smart drive copy on the Copy Options panel, specify copy options, and click the Next button
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Copy options dialog box

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Copying mode

Copy all partitions onto original places

Select this option if you want to copy all partitions to their original places.

One partition after another

Select this option if you want to copy the partitions one after another preserving their space. If there is empty space between the partitions, it will be omitted. Otherwise it is similar to Copy all partitions onto original places.

If Fixed active partition is selected, the original offset/size of the active partition will be preserved (in case the loader has links to it).

Expand/Shrink partition to whole disk

Specify this option if you want to proportionally expand/shrink the selected partitions to occupy the entire target drive.

If Fixed active partition is selected, the original offset/size of the active partition will be preserved (in case the loader has links to it).

3 View the copy task settings on the Drives Copy Wizard and click the Finish button
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Drives Copy Wizard

or click the <Back button to edit the copy parameters

> R-Studio will start copying data from the source hard drive to the destination one.