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jokerswild

jokerswild

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I like this program but, I must have done something wrong....

I was preparing for an upgraded hdd for my laptop. I did a full Disk/Partition backup and made a Media Recovery CD. I thought based on the help files this was what I'd need to restore from to the new drive to get it up and running.... but, after two attempts and not being succesful. It would only boot to an A: prompt and displayed that it was "Starting Windows 98"???? WTF?

I then scavanged the control board from a defunct external drive enclosure, connected the old drive and did a Disc Clone and that worked perfectly..... but, I wasted 2 hours on the Backup Recovery function and I don't know why it doesn't work as advertised.
 
did you read the manual first ?

let me know what you really need doing !
 
DjDennis said:
did you read the manual first ?let me know what you really need doing !
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No manual other than the help menu... I followed the instructions for doing a Disk and Partion and making a media recovery disk.... the disk worked but the partition backup didn't I managed to get the job done by hooking the old drive up via USB and then I used the clone drive utility and that worked giving me a bootable C drive again... so it was well worth the effort...
 
SoftJock Rick said:
There's an option when you create the boot CD, to have it autorun in 10 seconds. It is NOT checked by default...
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I found that setting... and as far as booting with the recovery CD I had no problem.... it was restoring from a full partition backup that didn't.
 
I have had problems with every cloning software I've tried except Casper. I purchased it from here: http://www.fssdev.com/products/casper/. It is not free ($49.95) but it is dead simple and mirrors my drives quickly.

For all of Windows computers I ALWAYS purchase a duplicate hard drive and make a clone every few weeks.

This info may not be helpful to you, but it may be to others. Best of luck with everything.
 
I use norton ghost for that type of jobs Rob

you can do disc, images, partition images etc etc

you just need to know how - as I posted on the ebook a few posts down
 
jokerswild said:
What I want is a complete backup that I could restore to a blank hard drive or a reformatted one that would be a one shot restore without having to load all other programs and drivers individually... back to the state it was in at some prior date...
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First of all, I am assuming that you are talking about your internal drive on your main PC not an external? If you want the boot up files along with all your programs you must have them on your "C" drive or you will have other sort of problems later. I am assuming that you want to be prepared that if your C Drives gives out you have a copy of it. If you want call me after 7pm.

Since you have Acronis already there is an option when you create your backups that if checked it will backup your entire drive. There are other options to just backup certain files. Now what you mean is you have a hard drive that you just bought which has nothing, what I would do in this case is


1- Connect it as a slave and with Acronis copy all the files of your original drive to it.
2- Format and install windows then copy all your files using Acronis to your D drive or external.

You can also use Ghost but that will mean you will have to invest more money and why would you if you already have Acronis? I use Ghost at work to Clone Pcs, create MSI packages, wake up all PCs on lan, and create other tasks on my Lan. It is a great program but why invest again if you already have one.
 
ok so what actual manual do you need

I need a version so I know what to give you...

here are ones I have..
Documentation (User Guides in PDF format, English)


Acronis True Image Home 2011 ............................................................

Acronis Disk Director 11 Home ............................................................

Acronis True Image Home 2010 ............................................................

Acronis True Image Home 2009 ............................................................

Acronis True Image 9.0 Home ...............................................................

Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 ...........................................................

Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 .....................................................................

Acronis Drive Cleanser 6.0 ....................................................................

Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows .........................................

Acronis True Image Echo Workstation ...................................................

Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server ............................................

Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server .....................................................

Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0 ..........................................................

Acronis Snap Deploy 3.0 for Pc's ...........................................................

Acronis Snap Deploy 3.0 for Servers ......................................................

Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux ...............................................

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation ...........................................

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Workstation ............................

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Windows .................................

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server .....................................

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS .............................

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Linux ......................................

Acronis Backup & Security 2010 ...........................................................

Acronis Internet Security Suite 2010 ......................................................
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just let me know what you need to read!!
 
or you could just do it this way....


Full drive backup to external drive.

In order to perform a full disk backup to your external hard drive follow these steps:

- Launch Acronis True Image Home;
- Click Backup -> My Computer -> Disks and Partitions -> Choose the desired partitions for backup (partition C: is already marked);
- On Backup Archive Location window unfold My Computer folder and choose your external hard disk drive;
- In Folder line (at the bottom of Archive Location window) type backup name (e.g MyBackup) and click Next;
- Next Windows will show you three choices:
1) Create a new full backup,
2) Create an incremental backup,
3) Create a differential backup.
Choose Create a new full backup -> Next -> Use default options -> Next -> Click proceed button.

that will keep ya going for now!!
 
I am in the middle of doing the same thing. Acronis true image home 2011. From what the "help" says, the best way is to actually take out the hdd in the computer...put it in a hard drive case and and put in the new hdd in the computer. then boot up the computer and do a 'clone hd'

I'm "cloning" it now to an external just in case. Once that's done, I'm gonna replace the new hd and clone again from the original. Will let you know how it's going
 
It worked. Using acronis,, I made a bootable USB stick. Then I put the new hard drive in the laptop and started up the computer. I put the old hard drive in an enclosure and plugged it into the computer via USB. Chose clone disk
 
Scott Hanna said:
It worked. Using acronis,, I made a bootable USB stick. Then I put the new hard drive in the laptop and started up the computer. I put the old hard drive in an enclosure and plugged it into the computer via USB. Chose clone disk
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The problem with that method is if the drive is bad you can't clone it... you need is a incremental backup that can be restored to a new drive... opsys included.
 
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