Problem2: In plain English, what must I do in what order.
This is the second of a few problems, questions. I am an ex-Ghost user, and decided to use this product based on the reviews. I am also an ex-BartPE user. I have looked at the user guides that are online. I honestly can’t find a very basic how to. Please help
My goal is to have a solution that does this: Bootable cd that starts up an environment that restores a saved image of my c drive. I can put the saved image of my c drive on a dvd, usb, doesn’t matter.. So I assume that the 2 products I have purchased, True Home and the Plus Pak, will let me do that. I have looked at the user guides, and frankly, they are written by the people who developed the product.
I am new to the product, I desperately want to use it, but I don't want to have to become an expert on every option the first time.
Give me a generic how to in plain English, what must I do in what order. I will be glad to take whatever is given to me and post it back based on what I have learned.
Thank you,
Liz
Gary, thank you so much for replying. I appreciate it. I actually started with the forums once the user guides got me bogged down, and yours was the first that made sense to me. But then I stopped as it wasn't clear to me that this was a path to reach my stated goal of creating a) a bootable cd and b) the image of the c drive. I just wanted a nudge in the right direction, so thank you for the nudge.
Much obliged,
Liz
Liz
How big is the image you are creating?
What operating system are you backing up?
You say you can put the saved image on a C drive, DVD, or USB.
Are you saying that you backup to a C drive, DVD or USB?
Or are you saying you are restoring to a C drive, DVD, or USB.
Depending on your operating system, I doubt that you can restore an image of
your C drive (operating system) to a DVD.
When you say USB are you talking about a USB attached hard drive?
A little more info is required.
Here's how I do my backups.
1. Using ATIH 2010 I do a full backup of my C drive to a locally attached
or USB attached hard drive.
2. I then immediately put in my Acronis boot CD and restore that image
to a different SATA hard drive.
3. I then boot from that second hard drive to verify that in fact my backup
and restore is good.
4. I then reboot from my original C drive.
This insures that if my C drive fails, I already have another drive with everything
on it ready to boot. I also still have my backup image so that I can restore to
another drive if I have to.
It takes me approximately 45 minutes to do the whole thing.
Sniffer has summarized it well ... follow those steps ... they are the they way to go to avoid any pitfalls.
I use the WinPE boot disk to do all disk imaging activities. I did a full C: disk backup just last night (including the hidden Dell Utility partition - hidden OEM partitions are very important to getting a bootable disk upon restore).
The User Guide (which can be found here) does have this information. Also, please check Grover's index found here (especially items 7A and B - these have screens from an earlier version of True Image, but the information is very well organized and highly useful.
Men, you are good to reply, but uncle. It appears that the amount of downloading, copying over, downloading again, placing in this file, running this command, and then doing xyz has beaten me down. I can't take it. Honest, I'm a smart gal, been in computers for years, but I can't take it anymore. Your steps and assistance is wonderful and detailed, but I just have so many questions, that I don't know what to do next. I think I'll just call it a humbling experience and go back to Ghost. Thank you, Liz
Men, you are good to reply, but uncle. It appears that the amount of downloading, copying over, downloading again, placing in this file, running this command, and then doing xyz has beaten me down. I can't take it. Honest, I'm a smart gal, been in computers for years, but I can't take it anymore. Your steps and assistance is wonderful and detailed, but I just have so many questions, that I don't know what to do next. I think I'll just call it a humbling experience and go back to Ghost. Thank you, Liz
You mean the 4 steps in Sniffer's directions? Just do those and you're good to go.
Hey Liz,
Don't give up the ship. If an ol' guy of 78 can do it, surely you can reconsider. Yes, there is a learning curve but Rome wasn't built in a day. Take your time and do some reading. It will pull together.
You've made it too complicated, snifferpro, using the boot CD is unnecessary. If your backup image of C is stored on an external HDD and you have a second bootable SATA drive as the target, you can restore the image in Windows. The CD is necessary only when you're restoring to the disk that is/was actively running Windows.
You've made it too complicated, snifferpro, using the boot CD is unnecessary. If your backup image of C is stored on an external HDD and you have a second bootable SATA drive as the target, you can restore the image in Windows. The CD is necessary only when you're restoring to the disk that is/was actively running Windows.
While this may be true in many cases, one can never tell what a user has on a system that will make True Image falter - and it doesn't take much. It is far safer for a beginner to use the boot CD.
Although the board says I'm a beginner, I've been working with computers
since 1961.
The reason I use the Boot CD is to verify that in fact the CD is still
valid so that when I really need it it works.
I also prefer to use the boot CD to keep the operating system completely
out of the picture during a restore.
This method may take a minute or two longer but it hasn't failed me in
all the years I've used Acronis.
Some users (I am one) find that ATIHome works perfectly for those who only want protection against system loss through disk failure and who require none of the added "features". It makes accurate images manually and, unlike the Linux CD, the restore in Windows never fails to see all attached peripherals. If a user has two identical, bootable SATAs (as snifferpro does) and restores the prime system image to the second drive using Windows, the CD is superfluous since you'll never have occasion to use it. The restore CD is useful only if a user's strategy is to wait until his only system disk fails and then to restore the backup partitions on a replacement disk which necessitates use of the CD. SATAs are so inexpensive (500 GBs is probably cheaper than TIH 2011) that a better strategy is to buy and install, or have installed, a second SATA before failure and work only in Windows. TOTB
Murgatroyd,
I agree that you can certainly do it without the TI CD in your scenario.
On the other side of the coin, is the fact once you determine the TI CD works with your hardware there is no reason that it won't keep working unless the hardware fails.
The main point is that for each of us that has found True Image to be a usable tool, we have found a way (or ways) that works for us. I think this flexibility is one of the real strengths of True Image. But it can be a steep learning curve since there is no one "right" answer or approach.