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Hi,

TI2012 was only able to create rescue media on a CD/DVD, or a USB flash drive. Has TI 2013 remedied this limitation?

I want to 'True Image' boot my computer from a USB portable drive and save the disk image of my computer on the same drive.

If this is still not possible using TI2013, do you have another product which is able to to this?

regards Tor

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Tor,

This has always been possible, but you need to prepare the drive manually, TI can't do this automatically.

The first thing you need to do is to partition your external drive into two partitions, one about 200MB for the recovery environment and the other partition where you will store the images.

I have a PDF file somewhere, which when I can find I will attach to this post.

***Addition****

Tor,

There are a number of ways you can do this, for example I have a USB flash drive that uses Grub to boot ISO's, this can also be used to boot hard drives, but here I attach the PDF written by MVP Mudcrab, which is how I did my hard drives.

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Any questions, just ask.

hello, we have 1 day this prg (true image 2013) the problem is that my systeem has vista 64 bit. the hd;s (3) are in raid en ahci mode.

i will from usb or cdrom this hd's ,make empty and then partity's and install win7,

now is het not possible. the answer is " partity to small" .

what is the matter.

Pieter,

I'm unclear as to what your problem is.

Are you trying to restore a disk image to your drive and then install windows 7 or are you trying to upgrade Vista to Windows 7?

Could you start a new thread, as your problem is different to the original posters, and you won't get many people seeing your problem and replying.

Hi again,

We read the PDF file and created a bootable usb-stick (on a 200Mb FAT32 partition on a 4Gb Kingston stick). The usb stick booted nicely Acronis. Then we used Acronis 2012 Home to save an image of this usb stick. Finally we restored that image to a 500Gb Seagate usb drive.

When booting from the latter drive it seems that the computer just does a simple check on the drive and then immediately botots from the computer's internal drive. There is no 'No operating system found...', it just jumps to the internal drive with almost no delay.

When we check the restored partion on the 500Gb drive is both primary and active.

What are we doing wrong?

2nd question: Why can't Acronis allow us to create such rescue harddrives directly..?

Thanks again for your help

regards Tor

Tor,

I assume you have the PC set to boot from USB first set in the BIOS.

My main PC has difficulty booting from external hard drives, but my laptops (both Lenovo) are quite happy to, however they will only boot the external hard drive from cold boot, if the OS is restarted, the BIOS misses the boot sector of the external USB drive and will always boot into Windows.

I haven't set my new laptop as UEFI, this might act differently.

The reason some hard drives will work and others don't is due to the individual PCs BIOS. USB hard drives and for that matter USB sticks have a number of ways of reporting themselves to the BIOS, sometimes this is in the firmware of the device and sometimes it just depends on what software has partitioned and formatted the drive.

Traditionally of course, Microsoft have not allowed an OS to be installed and booted from an external hard drive.

Did you make the booting partition FAT32?

There used to be an HP tool, but I can't recall if this was for flash drives or hard drives.

You could try giving it a drive letter and see if that helps your BIOS to spot it.

Both the USB drives I use I have given both the booting partition and the image partition drive letters - see attached snipshot. Note I have not updated this particular drive for some time hence the date of 2008 for the Acronis components.

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hi. again

no i will a new installed win7 to my pc.

buth there is vista 64bitt on this systeem.

when a install win7 with the cdrom then is the answer " there is not enough space"

We first want to acronis CD (created) partites and formatting the harddisk's (3 x in raid!)
and after then installed win7 !

is this possible?

Colin,
Your emphasize on BIOS 'ability' led me to upgrade the computer's bios. That solved it all!

Later, when upgrading many different models which formerly refused to boot, that worked for them all, so a late BIOS version is obviously crucial.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

best regards Tor

Pieter,

Just so that I understand.

You want to make a complete disk image of your Vista 64 bit system.

After that, you want to install Windows 7.

Are the disks already set up as RAID or are you going to do that once you haev Windows 7 installed?

hello,

no there is no need a disk image from vista . all hd's i will formatted and then install win7.
is this possible with acronis .because the hd's are already set up in raid!!

some people say "it is not possible even with acronis! because the raid system prevents

this is all !! how can i win7 install with the cd or usb stick ( both are applicable)

pending. ?

sincerly pieter