Image backup/restore from under DOS?

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Can I use True Image (or any other Acronis product) to create a bit-for-bit image of a disk while booted from a DOS CD?

I have four Western Digital hard drives connected to a Promise RAID controller, and I suspect one or more of them are having problems.

Based on what Promise has told me, there's no way to run diagnostics or do repairs while the drivers are connected to the RAID controller, so I plan to move them one at a time to a bare-bones "test" computer and run Western Digital's Data Lifeguard (booted from a DOS CD) diagnostics on each drive.

But I need to get a complete backup of each drive first, and so I also need an image backup/restore program that will run under DOS.

Does Acronis True Image - both backup and restore - run under DOS?

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 16:40
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I am not sure what diagnostics you have that must be run under DOS - does the WD Data Lifeguard do something that nothing else can?. If you had a WinPE or BartPE bootable disk with True Image on it (so it has to be installed on the computer), you could use chkdsk and diskpart utilities from there, as well as all backup and restore operations. I don't think True Image runs under DOS at all.

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 17:34
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You may also want to check the Ultimate Boot CD (which is DOS based) and has the WD tools on it, and this may have some links to some DOS-based imaging tools - at least some are listed. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 17:37
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The SafeMedia (Safe Mode) version of TI is DOS-based. However, I don't know if the program itself will run from standard DOS (I haven't tried it).

Why couldn't you boot the computer using the TI CD and do the backup from there? It shouldn't matter if TI is running from Linux (Full Mode) or DOS (Safe Mode).

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 18:06