Confidence booster - virtual machine success
I tried an experiment this weekend which has really boosted my confidence in ATI.
I set up a Win 10 virtual machine in Oracle's free VirtualBox software (BIOS mode). I then mounted the recovery ISO in the virtual DVD and booted the VM, restored the boot drive image from my NAS with all default settings, and then booted the virtual machine. Amazingly, the system booted perfectly. It took a few extra minutes to discover "devices" since it's now running in the VM, but after that it came right up to the login screen. No issues whatsoever. I didn't even need to run Universal Restore as apparently Win 10 does a good job figuring out device changes on its own.
This really gives me confidence that restoration will not be an issue. Worst case I can stand up a working copy of my computer inside 45 minutes on a VM on another system. The whole complex structure of the boot drive with MBR, system partitions etc., was perfectly replicated in the VM.
This ease of restoration from a single TIB file is actually a big advantage for ATI in my view. I've used some competing products which are in some ways more stable from a UI perspective, but which require significant knowledge of the disk layout in order to restore each partition. ATIs abstraction of this (while still providing manual options) is a big plus.


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