A Hard drive copy need to reinstall programs?!
After doplicate a hard drive some programs have to be reinstalled or reactivated and product keys have to be entered. With 10.0 york all this Programs also after made a bootable hard drive copy.
If you do a full disk mode backup and then a full restore including mbr and disk signature, then you shouldn't need to reinstall or reacitivate any programs.
Yes, but if i want move a system to another hard drive or make a clone of my system hard drive, then i dont need a backup-image, i need then only a hdd to hdd copy. Maybe it works with the latest build from november. I have to test this yet this night when my computer off with my own system harddrive... Maybe in 6131 is this problem fixed.
if i need everytime a backup image, then i have triple work when i want move a system to another harddrive. 1 Step Make Image, second step, clone hard drive, last step, restore the image.....
Yo can do a clone, operation which is intended to copy the image of one disk onto another.
Atlernatively you can do a backup, which has a key advantage:
you can have more than one stored on the target drive. IF you hdisk started going bad before you knew it and before your most recent backup, then it's good to have an older ackup on hand.
You don't have to make a backup everytime; you ought to have backups already created. The only thing that keeps a hdrive from failing is disposign of it before it fails. I't an electromechanical device and eventual failure is not merely probably, but certain.
Btw, if you clone or restore to another system you're going to run into a couple of problems:
different hardware requires diff hardware drivers.
OEM version of Windows won't work when transferred -- actually they'll run for a month or so before shutting down.
IN any event, whether you clone or make a disk backup and restore it, you shouldn't have to reenter serial numbers etc. The only exceptions would be programs that use activation and identify the hardware on which they are installed. In those cases you would need to transfer the licenses to new machine, if such transfer is allowed (with OEM versions of windows, it isn't). But in those cases, it's not a failing of ATI, it's a matter of violating the licensing policies of software you have.
Btw, if you clone or restore to another system you're going to run into a couple of problems:different hardware requires diff hardware drivers.
OEM version of Windows won't work when transferred -- actually they'll run for a month or so before shutting down.
No, i dont clone to another system - only to another Hard drive. I know all the problems when moving a Mainboard. Then i reinstall windows and then new Mainboard drivers. Thats another thing. Thats not the problem which i described. In this night i clone my own system hdd for my own unchanged system. Then i write in here what happens with the installed programs when booting from the clone.
PS: i do only make backup-images from important files - never from the whole hard drive
This doesn't sound like the result of a disk cloning or disk mode backup and restore. It doesn't sound like an ATI thing at all. I've done dozens of these on over a dozen different machines and never experienced anything like this.
It sounds like maybe you did a file backup and restore, which wouldn't capture system files or registry info necessary for programs to run. Are you sure you did a disk mode backup and full disk restore. That could cause programs that appear to be "installed" to not work correctly.
Try this, install new drive where the old drive used to be and attach the old drive via a usb box or such, then with the bootCD clone the old drive to the new drive. After cloniing is done, disconnect the old drive and boot up. The worst you might have is an mbr alignment issue on some machines but that would cause some programs to demand reactiviation.
This doesn't sound like the result of a disk cloning or disk mode backup and restore.
No. I use Copy from HDD to another HDD. I have the german version of the program and dont know how it called in english. Maybe u find it under Tools.
Ill test it with the bootCD. maybe then works it better. I was running it under windows XP SP3 and was copying from HDD2 to HDD3....
Regards
This night i made it, and it will not work, program needed a restart of machine before start the job and thenn after restart acronis True Image Home 2012 didnt find the SATA Hard Drives.
This is really poor. I thank god, that i have TrueImage V. 10.0 Not 2010, 10.0 is maybe 2007.
If you are starting a restore form within Windows, the reboot is normal as ATi has to boot up in another OS so that it can overwrite certain system files. Probably a driver issue, you could send a sys reprt to tech and see if they can send you a diff iso to make a diff bootcd with diff drivers. Acronis used to do that for folks, I'm guessing they still do.
IF ati 10 works for you, I'd stick with that; it's one of my favorite versions of ati and I sue it on all of my machines old enough to still be able to use it.
Alternatively you caould make a Bartpe disk, which is kind of a hassle, but then you'd be restore using a windows OS and the windows driver you already have that you know work.