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I have an older laptop with 98SE installed, a 4GB internal HDD, equally partitioned into C: and D:, a CD read-only drive and a 3 1/2" floppy drive. Wanted to create an image of C:

I used an old copy of Acronis 7.0 (build 648) to create the image. With no CD record capability, and not wanting to use multiple floppies, I tried to create it on a USB flash drive, but failed, Acronis could not write the final steps to the flash drive. So, I created the image on D: and then copied it from D: to the flash drive.

I created the recovery boot media via Drive A: (the 3 1/2" floppy) - producing 6 floppies. I also copied them to the flash drive.

My questions:

1. Can I use the image copy on the flash drive to restore C:?

2. Could I burn that flash drive image of C: to a CD (using my XP Pro machine) and then use that CD to restore C:?

3. Also, could I burn the 6 floppies to a separate CD and use that CD as the boot media, versus the 6 floppies? (I'm pretty sure I can't boot from the USB flash drive.)

4. If I can burn those floppies to a CD to create the recovery boot CD, how do I do that?

5. Could I use the C: image to create a bootable system partition on a new HDD, or do I have to create a clone via a USB connected HDD in an External Enclosure? Any other way?

I know, these are 'old' problems, but humor me, I'm an old man.

Thanks for your advice and suggestions.

Fri, 10/02/2009 - 22:26
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The laptop, being so old, is hardly likely to be able to boot a usb flash drive. Your best bet is to create the CD on your XP machine and then use the CD on the laptop to boot True Image.

#5. Put the Image on an external drive, put the new HDD in the laptop, boot with the CD and restore the Image to the new drive.

Sat, 10/03/2009 - 00:08
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Guess you're too young to remember that 98SE supports USB 2.0. I currently use multiple 8 and 16GB SanDisk flash drives on this machine, via a powered USB expansion device, as auxilary data storage. Works great. 98SE takes up less than 500MB on the C: Drive. The entire system file, with all installed programs, is less that 1 GB. The paging file is on the D: drive and has 2GB to do its thing until the app's data leaks fill it up. When it fills up, reboot and off we go again. Great system for what I use it for, but the HD is getting old, and I don't want to have to reload 98SE and retune everything. So, I'm trying to find the best way to do that.

Now, are you saying, I can use an ATI Image (not a clone), to create a bootable OS on a new HD (one that never had an OS on it), and all I have to do is replace the current internal HD with the new HD and do a restore? Sounds too easy.

If so, tell me once again, what is the function of cloning? I thought that was the only way you could move an OS from one HD to another, and have a bootable OS on the new HD. Not so?

Now I am confused.

Sat, 10/03/2009 - 17:12
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If you don't have the user guide for True Image 7 I've posted a link to it here. Perhaps you have it.
http://s4u.download.acronis.com/sl/fIBvoD6qH0yFqY87d8XO4%295ITrpK6nFKWO…

Sat, 10/03/2009 - 20:18
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It's not a matter of 98SE supporting USB 2, it is the Bios of the computer that has to be able to *BOOT* a usb device.

Sat, 10/03/2009 - 21:13
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Teflon wrote:
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Now, are you saying, I can use an ATI Image (not a clone), to create a bootable OS on a new HD (one that never had an OS on it), and all I have to do is replace the current internal HD with the new HD and do a restore? Sounds too easy.

If so, tell me once again, what is the function of cloning? I thought that was the only way you could move an OS from one HD to another, and have a bootable OS on the new HD. Not so?

Now I am confused.

Cloning is really intended to replace a working HD with a new, usually larger, HD. TI cloning only deals with complete HDs.
Imaging is intended to make backups of your HD. Since it created files they can be stored on the backup media until it fills up. This way you can roll-back to a previous version if you at some time encountered a virus or perhaps some badly behaving software installation. A restored image of a bootable partition will make the restored partition bootable.

Since cloning makes a copy of the disk you can also consider it a backup method although you can only have one "backup" on the target disk no matter how large it is.

Since restoring an image will restore all the files and make the disk bootable, you can also use the image to setup a new blank HD instead of cloning. I have never cloned.

Note that to make a restored disk bootable, you must either clone or restore a bootable image. Using a TI Data backup and backing up all the files on the disk will not allow you to restore and have a bootable volume.

Sat, 10/03/2009 - 21:53