Bootable CD's - do I need them?
Win 7 Home Prem
I have upgraded to the 2012 version.
I have the bootable CD's from 2011 & 2010 TIH versions. Do I need all of them or just keep the newest version?
I don't have TIH 2012 on my XP Note book, but did create a back up when I first got it. Lets say I had to reinstall XP with the back up created by TIH 2010 - will the 2012 TIM bootable CD work to get me started?
Hope that all made sense.
thx
Seth,
Experienced users keep the bootable CDs for each version and even each build; they include the version number and build number in the file name to ensure proper matching.
Sometimes, for mysterious reasons, the bootable CD loses compatibility with previously compatibale hardware, so you *always* have to test your CD.
From my personal experience, I don't keep the older CDs. I just produce a new bootable medium when I update ATI, test it and move on with producing new backups. That saved me when I upgraded to 2012 and it failed the first time.
hmmm - so always go the safest route?
Guess I'll be keeping the older bootable CD's.
So much for cleaning house.
You could use Xboot to create a bootable USB flash drive containing multiple ATI Recovery "disks". That way you don't have to retain a stack of CD-Rs.
Seth,
If you are looking for neatness, create a bootable USB Flash drive (bootable with Grub4Dos or Xboot) and store a multitude of the various versions of the TI Recovery CD's--all on the one 2 or 4GB drive. Assuming that your computer can boot from a usb flash drive. My flash drive has iso files from the last 8 versions of TI.
If interested, check out signature index below, item 4-D.
Edit: My apologies for the duplication. Tuttle, Richard and I were composing at the same time and he was faster.
Or grub4dos ( http://reboot.pro/forum/66/ ) can boot your choice of multiple ISO files.
My apologies too. Grover beat me. :~)
I like the idea of having all on one USB.
I do have I think 2010 on a USB, but when I had Vista and went to use the thumb drive, could not get the machine to boot to USB.
So not sure if I did not create a good ISO file or something else.
Thanks for the suggestions.
You need to edit the BIOS to enable booting from USB before booting from the hard drive.
Had done that - hence why not sure if saved correctly or PC issue.
What boot loader are you trying to use? If Grub4Dos, it can boot ISO files directly with menu.lst items such as the following:
color white/blue green/blue
timeout 30
default 0title Acronis Rescue Media 2011 (ISO)
map /SOURCES/AcronisMedia2011.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)title Acronis Rescue Media 2012 (ISO)
map /SOURCES/AcronisMedia2012.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)
Remember that Grub4Dos folder/file access may be case sensitive depending on how it's installed. It does NOT need to be embedded in your master boot record (MBR). It can be chained from a NTLDR and BOOT.INI setup if you'd rather not alter your MBR.
I tried Xboot tonite, but got error msgs when creating the USB.
May have something to do with the Spinwrite ISO.
I looked into Grub4Dos - seemed too complicated and time consuming.
I ended up taking my previous bootables and copied onto a USB drive.
When I eventually need one of the ISO files, will then copy to a CD.
Xboot was so easy, much simpler than Grub4Dos. I've got two versions of ATI bootable recovery ISOs on my Xboot USB flash drive, plus Partition Wizard, and I plan to add more tools.