Re: Acronis True Image Home

Willie Wonka wrote:
"Nick Le Lievre" <nicklelievre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have just started using this software, I have created a full backup of
my
C:\ partition but it did this whilst Windows was running, with the GHOST
software I used to use it had to boot into DOS so that it had exclusive
access to all the files on the system partition.

Therefore I wonder has it created a proper backup that can be restored,
also
when you restore I a window comes up saying which partition do you want to
restore, Vista C:\ or MBR & Track 0 you have to select one, I am afaid
that
if I select the wrong one it will only restore the partition files and not
the boot record required for booting, and if I select the MBR Track 0 it
will only restore the MBR and not the rest of the partition.

Any help would be appreciated.

Why did you stop using Ghost? I still think its far better than Acronis.
Comments??

Bill



I alsways use a stand-alone floppy or CD, not the Windows installed version, for Ghost or Acronis TI9.0.

I used Ghost 2003 DOS version until recently, when I was unable to backup a laptop to a USB2 drive; not able to access the internal SATA disk nor the USB device. Since then, the chipsets seem to be more compatible with the older devices and the DOS drivers. I still have the "master" DOS7 boot floppy which I used to create a modified copy for specific systems. (The laptop was an "early" SATA one.) Recently I have been using the TrueImage 9.0 plug-in with BARTPE, slow but it works, whereas the TrueImage disk fails (probably missing Linux drivers for the chipsets).

When it works, Ghost 2003 beats TI9.0 in most, if not all, ways - faster from boot to copy (no crap GUI mechanism); repeat backups are a doddle with .BAT and cli; restoring and resizing multiple partitions is one cli line not one GUI sequence per partition and is also faster with the Ghost GUI ...

<to-self> Must try using Ghost again </to-self>

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