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Noob here... need some emergency help with a crash.

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Hello all. I have been using two Seagate FreeAgent Desk 500-gig drives for backups, doing file backups on one with Seagate Disk Manager, and image backups on the other with Acronis True Image (approx. 1 year old). I have had an unexpected HD crash in my 32-bit XP box, and the boot CD that I created with Acronis software does not work. I have a new 64-bit Win7 box that I was just starting to migrate to, but I had only started the process, since the 32-64 bit upgrade necessitated more than a simple ghosting session, and now am faced with the unexpected crash and boot CD failure.

I probably want to replace the HD and restore the old machine, even though it's not to remain in use much longer, but I also want to get the new box up to speed. Can anyone suggest a methodical course of action, including downloads and/or installs I should make to either or both machines? I'm sure it's relatively simple, but panic has me unable to get my head around it right now.

Sidebar: Is there any way to make another bootable CD to try to bring the old machine back to life (since I can't do anything with it at the moment)?

Thanks in advance for any help, and apologies if any of my questions are stupid ones (I'm old...).

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If your version of TrueImage home was either 10 or 11 or 2009, all of these have a Bootable Media download available from your registration/update page. This iso diwnload can then be burnt onto a CD as an image to create an Acronis bootable REscue CD.

With the CD, you could then perform a disk option restore of one of your TrueImage disk images and your new disk should be bootable on the old XP machine. This would put your XP machine on a new disk and in the same condition as it was when the backup was created.

My signature index below has several references relating to downloading and making the iso file.