How come bootable ISO images are of different sizes?

I believe Acronis is changing driver support for these, which is a good thing!

This is why whenever the topic of "the bootable media cannot see all my drives" arises in these forums, the first suggestion is "download the latest ISO image file from your account" - perhaps the drivers have been updated which will support your particular hardware.

I would think that they would change the version #, date and update the release notes when they make such changes. Multiple versions of the same software causes a lot of confusion.

The implication is that if I can see all my target and destination drives then I don't have to burn a new boot CD.

Anyway, we are guessing all this. I hope Acronis replies with the real info. We don't know for sure if they are slip-streaming other bug-fixes in there.

Aloke

You are correct in that if all of you target and destination drives can be seen that you have no need for the new ISO image.

If Acronis had to update version #'s and such like you suggest just for adding drivers it would be a huge nightmare, in my opinion. I don't see any problem with what they are doing.

How can you be sure that that's all that Acronis is doing: adding/changing drivers?
And that these driver changes (if that's all they are doing) has no effect on the reliability of the software?

See the following Knowledge Base article: http://kb.acronis.com/content/4831 for more information.

You may be guessing. I'm not.