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I have used Acronis TIH 2010 successfully to backup, restore and adjust sizes of my partitions. It works wonderfully on my Windows and Debian GNU/Linux (ext3) dual boot system. Now I am testing if it would work for me to move to a single boot Linux system by running Windows7 in a VirtualBox inside Debian Linux. I'd run the Virtual Machine for the Windows-only programs I'd like to keep, Photoshop Elements and ViewNX 2. Acronis is one also but stands alone because it can be run as bootable media. I never use the bootable media, always the installed Acronis because the literature said, if I recall correctly, it doesn't run as well inside a recovery environment, but maybe that just means it has less features and your mouse interface may be effected etc. A wired mouse works fine with Acronis TIH from boot media, and it gives the features I need which is partition backups. My Acronis boot disc is updated and does boot both my Desktop and Laptop. I just found out that Acronis TIH 2010 will be of no use installed inside my Windows7 VirtualBox Machine to backup even my host machine's ext3 partitions from over a network VM setup. And Linux "file backup" has never been supported. So Acronis bootable media is my only option if I single boot with Debain, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

Before I take the plunge. Is Acronis TIH 2010 running from bootable media in any way inferior to installed Acronis if all I want to do is backup or recover full ext3 partitions?

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Acronis recovery CD run standard on Linux, and their versions suffer from time to time from hardware compability issue. So you really will have to try.

Since the bootcd is the only option if your hdisk goes south, you really need to test the bootcd in any case -- every ati user should make and test the bootcd.

I have known cases where the bootcd would not restore on a w7 64 machine but the restore would work if started from within ati - - go figure. . .

That I did not know. Thank you for sharing your experience, it helped a lot. I will try to keep a Windows partition for an Acronis installation, it has no equal.