Re: Acronis True Image Home v. 10 problem (doesn't work, avoid, in favor of Norton Ghost)
- From: "Steven" <nomail@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:42:49 -0400
<justathought@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fg63fp$k19$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
raylopez99 wrote:
I just thought of something--when the restore failed, I was inside
of WIndows "Safe Mode" and accessing Acronis that way--another >
poster said I should be inside WIndows "Full Mode" (non-safe
mode).
Yea, I missed the part about you using it inside windows. I was
talking about useing it from the boot disk. I think, but not
positive, that if using the boot disk method you have to use full
mode to get it to load the USB driver. Best way is to create a
secure zone on the HDD and use that to restore from. No windows or
boot disk needed. Just press F11 on boot up to restore the image.
Don't think you can do that with Ghost, not the last time I used it
anyway.
Yeah that works great as long as the reason your restoring the image
isn't because the hardrive died. If your going to do this you better
also keep another backup image somewhere else and if your going to
do that... well it sorts negates the need for having a secure zone
unless your constantly restoring images just to test things.
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I've had great success with Acronis TI used it since version 8 now on 11. Was a ghost and driveimage user before that.
I save all my images to my server across the network. Images are then sync to a large USB/FIREWIRE drive. I have recently added an eSATA external drive as well but have not tested as a boot from CD and restore
TI has save my bacon a couple of times. Most of my backups occur from within XP or VISTA and all my restores have been from a boot CD with TI. Most of the time I can get to the server on the local network, but have tested the USB and firewire drive access as well.
I think on new system the eSATA will work well as the drives are seen in the bios and TI sees them just like an attached hard drive on the motherboard = no specific driver needed as in USB or FW.
I have restore over corrupted OS drives -- rolling back to a good backup -- I back up before any software install and after if things go well. This is the most common thing. With VISTA I currently have rolled back frequently...
I have restore to a new drive once when an OS drive went south on me.
I'm very impressed with Acronis TI
I even set my boss up as an "imager" and he also had a drive failure soon after beginning to backup.. He had trouble in restoring a bootable drive, but recovered all his files from the image. He has now tested the ability to backup and restore a bootable OS drive..
He now has his drive in removable drive caddies and actually routinely images his working OS drive. swaps in another caddy, boots from the CD and restores the image to the newly inserted caddies and reboots. This leave him with 2 copies of his OS, one in the computer and one on the shelf
I use this technique to swap between XP and VISTA on one of my computers rather than the dual boot stuff
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