Immaging of Partition

11/3/09

I did the following (trial user) to create hard drive image on a USB external drive:

Open ACRONIS True Image Home 2010
(Question 1)

Under “MY Favorites” select “Disc and Partition Backup”

Disc properties show Disc 1 is C: (Hard Drive) (Drive to later clone))
Disc 2 is F: (Stick Drive)
Disc 3 is G: (External 310GB USB drive)

Under Disc 1: Three Partitions are shown:

FAT 16 (unlabeled) 7.642 MB (FAT 16 Partition)
FAT 32 (unlabeled) 2.162 GB (FAT 32 Partition)
NTFS (unlabeled) 70.97 GB 30.56 GB (NFTS).

Total capacity of the hard drive is approximately 80 GB

NTFS is the only partition checked by the program, suggesting this partition is the default for backing up the C; Drive. Why is the default for only NFTS? Don’t I need to have all partitions copied for eventual cloning to a new hard drive?

I created a partition image on the external USB drive (G:), which now has all three partitions on it, but it’s not clear to me whether or not all were necessary. Confusing.

Have I properly imaged the hard drive to the USB drive?

Question 2
I know I need a bootable CD with the boot and programs to clone the USB to a new hard drive.

Is this is the “Media Recovery” CD?

I created this and got a “recovery” file on the CD, but the MEDIA screen never indicated it was done. Just sets there. With the options NEXT or CANCEL. Next just takes me back to do the same thing all over again and cancel exits, but with no indication the process was done or successful. Of course, the contents of the CD shows that it finished.

Lynwood O’Leary
olearyevergreen@msn.com

303-674-6329

Yes, put the check mark in Disk 1, for the Source drive.
Ye, the Media Recover CD is bootable with the basic features of True Image on it.