Will True Image 2013 work on a Windows XP Pro (32 bit) system?
By "work" I mean, can I burn a copy of my C drive onto a standalone backup portable hard drive?
AND then, if (when) the C drive totally crashes, can I boot up the computer using the backup drive, and will all the data (including registry values) be there?
My confusion about this relates to the requirement (?) that the disks need to use the GPT formatting system, and that is apparently not supported by XP 32-bit.
I purchased TI 10.0 years ago, but was never able to get it to do what I described above.
thx
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No. While you could Clone your C: drive to an external USB hard drive, it would not be bootable. That is a Windows limitation: Windows won't allow booting from a Windows installation on an external hard drive.
Your best course is to make a full disk mode backup, which includes all partitions (even hidden ones), to an external HD. That will include everything: Windows; all your settings; all your installed software applications; all your data; ... everything.
Each backup is saved as a compressed .tib archive. As such, multiple .tib archives may be saved to a single backup drive, allowing for greater redundancy, security and flexibility.
Once a full disk image .tib archive is restored to a drive, the result is the same as if that drive had been the target of a clone done on the date and time that the backup archive was created.
ATI 10.0 could also have done this on your XP system. There is a learning curve with ATI, so perhaps you just missed something.
Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left margin of this forum, particularly Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.
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Thanks to both of you for volunteering your expertise!
There is definitely a ATI learning curve that I fell off of!
So, if I do a full disk backup to an external HD, in order to restore when my C drive fails, I install a new hard drive on the computer. Then I install ATI on the new C drive and use that to move all the files from the external HD to the new C drive. When I boot up again, all the software & reg values are there. Am I understanding this properly?
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John Timothy wrote:So, if I do a full disk backup to an external HD, in order to restore when my C drive fails, I install a new hard drive on the computer.
Yes
John Timothy wrote:Then I install ATI on the new C drive and use that to move all the files from the external HD to the new C drive.
No. You would boot from the Acronis True Image bootable Recovery Media (Rescue Media), (either from CD or USB flash drive), and restore the backup image from the external drive to the new drive.
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Excellent! Even easier! I am copying and saving this conversation to my external HD right now!
Thanks again. Issue resolved...for the time being :>)
jt
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