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I have been using and telling other people to use Acronis for years, but now, with everything I have been reading here that is no longer the case. I do not want to have my windows backup messed up or have to jump through several hoops just to try and uninstall it. Why do people have to take a rock solid product and add all these bells and whistles just to be better. As a stand alone backup solution there was no better product on the market. I wish you had left well enough alone.

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David,
Yes, the 2011 version is totally different with a new interface.

However, for those people who do not want to perform an install onto their computer, it is possible for registered users to download the "Bootable Media" option from their acount and burn that downloaded file as an image onto a CD. This acts as an alternate Rescue CD with the same features as if you had created the CD from an installed application.

I find the TI Rescue CD 2011 version to work equally well as the 2010 (or 2009) CD version. In fact, it is hard to tell the various CD versions apart in appearance or in functionality The CD version has the basic backup, restore or cloning optionss--and TI does not need to be installed.

When restoring a system partition or creating a replacement disk or creating a clone of your system disk, Acronis has always suggested that you perform those function when booted from the TI Rescue CD. There are considerable number of users that use the Rescue/REcovery CD exclusively for all their backups and restores and disk duplications and do not want Windows interfering with these functions.

Most certainly, if you created the alternate Bootable Media Rescue CD, this would permit a disk option backup to be created and that backup could be used to restore a pristene system back to what it was at time of backup--no TrueImage installed.

Before you can use the bootable media you have to buy the full version. Using the bootable media you can't open the .tib file with windows running. The GUI is incredible to use. I hope Acronis gives us an GUI using a classic lookout. Yes, I don't install the windows part.. I use the bootable media solely.

I thank both of you for these suggestions and I am really considering this as a viable option. It reminds me of the old days when you had to leave windows completely and go into a DOS enviornment to do the actual backup, something I still find appealing since windows is completely at rest with nothing in the background to bother it. I knew I made a mistake by getting the upgrade version instead of the full. Thats what I get for trying to save a few bucks just before Christmas.

Happy Holidays to everyone and thank you again for your comments, you have given me much to think on.

I don't have TI2011 but check to see (after registering if you haven't) if you can download the file mentioned by Groverh. Typically the only difference between an upgrade and full is that you have to enter the serial for a previous version when using the upgrade.

FWIW, I do all my imaging from within Windows and start all restores from within Windows. The live-imaging technology is not seen as an issue IMO. Restoring the active partition always causes a reboot into the Linux recovery enviroment anyway.

If I did clones, which I don't since images work just as well, I'd probably only use the CD for that purpose.

Just a follow up on the comments above. The bootable rescue media is available is on the Acronis page for registered versions. There are tabs below the blue box that lists your registered version and serial number, and one of those tabs is for bootable media. It is downloaded as an ISO image. Also as a side note, windows 7 has an ISO burner built in, so no additional software for burning is needed and the disk will be bootable.

Tried my first drive C: backup today using the bootable media disk and it worked like a charm, and boy was it fast.

David,
We all happy for you that you were pleasantly surprised. Don't forget however, when you want or need to move to a replacement disk, it is the disk option backup (all partitions including boot or diagnostic) that provides the easiest transition to a new disk because you have everything you need in one backup. This does not necessarily mean all backups have to be disk option backups but most certainly, you should always have a current disk option backup available whenever needed.