Observation of TI Home 2010 Recovery
This is just an observation of my recovery experience.
The TI Home 2010 package is about my fifth Acronis product I've had over the past three years. It took me a while to get use to the new method for defining backups and their frequency. Tonight was my first recovery using an external disk with the image, and a new unformatted internal drive which will be my new C:\ drive.
The first time I booted from the DVD the only hard disk I could find was the external drive which was designated as C:\. I finally figured out that I could add a new drive. I went through the process a few times but never did see a new drive on the options list. It took me a while to figure out that I had to right click on the drive and select my partitioning options. This then became drive I:\. Not knowing what the final outcome was going to be, in my thinking I thought it should be drive C:\, so I started the whole recovery process over again, this time with the external drive turned off. This did give the new disk the C:\ assignment. I then turned on the external disk and used the add new disk to make it visible as drive I:\.
I started the recovery definition, finding the drive image on I:\. As I progressed along through the dialogs I get to the last one that says there are two steps required. Step 1 was to remove the second partition, and it referenced the I:\ drive (my source drive). Step two was the recovery process, but it showed "C:->I:" which in my thinking is totally backwards. I want to go from I: to C:.
I went through this definition process two more times with the same result. I figured that I must not be understanding what the dialogs are saying.
When the restore was done the dialog only showed one hard drive, I:\, with the label of what it was showing for I:\ earlier. There was no longer a C:\ drive listed. I figured I just wiped out my external drive with nothing on the internal drive. I went ahead with a reboot and everything looked good. I was able to boot the PC and the external drive still had all of its files.
I guess it's me, but I just don't understand the way you identify and present what is going to be done during a recovery. I don't recall having this problem with the TI 11 Home product. It took me about an extra hour to do the recovery just because I didn't understand your lingo.
Joe
