Re: Acronis True Image Help!!
- From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:03:04 +1000
phaedrus <orion.osiris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> I'm having terrible problems trying to make
> a bootable backup of my Hard Drive.
I think you grossly overuse the word 'terrible' |-)
> I've given up the ghost with Ghost (terrible piece of software)
> and am now trying my luck with Acronis TI's trial version.
> Problem being with this one that the user manual is very badly
> written and talks about something called a "secure zone" and
> changing the size of zones without explaining what they are,
> what they do or why one would need to!
Yeah, that area of the manual does leave quite a bit to be desired.
The short story is that you can ignore the secure zone completely
if you want to write your images to DVD. Its used for images
written to hard drives, and when you dont have a separate partition
or drive to the one you are imaging to write the image file to.
> All I want to do is create, on a recordable DVD., a *complete*
> bit-for-bit copy of my HDD with all the operating system, applications
> and data and make it bootable so in the event of HDD failure, I can
> just slip the DVD into another computer with a clean HDD and have it
> boot-up fully with everthing working just like your regular HDD does.
TI can certainly do that.
> If poss, I'd like to do it all on just the one DVD without need
> for a separate boot disk. I've only 4GB in total on the HDD
> so it should all fit on DVD without need for compression.
> So how do I do it?? Can someone spoon-feed me through the process
> step-by-step? 4 days waisted trying to achieve this so far. :-(
The easiest to understand approach is to make the rescue CD
and boot that. Select the Create Image option, tick the hard drive
on the first line which shows hard drives and partitions. You want
to image the entire hard drive, not just the partition on it. Then
specify the DVD burner where you name where the image file goes.
Its almost as easy with the installed TI, just ignore the secure zone,
it isnt relevant to what you want to do, specify the DVD burner as
the destination for the image file, just type a file name in the filename
box after the drive letter TI will supply when you click on the DVD drive.
.
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