True image 2011 - How to make sure universal restore is included/activated in image?
I have made 2 images on the same system :
1. Clean new install windows 7 without any drivers installed.
2. Windows 7 with all driver, a couple months install with 100 games installed.
Now when I connect the HDD to my other pc with Different hardware it says with the 1st image above, An option appears with the checkbox if I want to use universal restore.
But when I load up the 2nd image The option is gone, and it just aks me if I want to backup disk or files.
This defeats the purpose... I want to save the ability to plug and play as much as I can if you will with my 100's games on any pc. (obviously need drivers but still pretty almost plug and play)
Please advise me.
No offense ofcourse you're just trying to help, but I Seriously Seriously doubt that. That seems more like an excuse to me. + I have all games working on a no cd crack.
I feel there must be something else . I mean the software is ment for this kind of stuff.
Any other idea's?
Reconhell,
The Universal Restore should be ready to be activated when ATI detects new hardware and that the image is a system image. If it doesn't work, there can be several reasons:
- ATI cannot detect this is a system image (Dev-anon might be onto something here)
- the backup doesn't contain the system (OS and boot files).
Just to make sure that Windows is not in the way of the detection, try to use your recovery CD (one that you have produced after installe the Plus Pack), and verify you observe the same issue (works with an image, but not the other one).
Thank you for your reply.
Im going to create another image of my computer and see if it happens again but I will do that later this week when I have time.
I created the image with MBR, system partition and the partition where windows 7 sp1 64 bit ultimate resides.
So Yes im 100% it inculdes the OS.
Btw when you restore an image, should you premake the partitions on the target disks at the same sizes or can you recover to unallocated space?
I created the image exactly the same way as with the one that does work with universal restore.. so I don't think im doing anything wrong.
Recovery cd of acronis true image 2011? I run the recovery action trough booting from the cd, but the image I create in windows.
It's funny to see that there is no solution even on the official forums :( The whole purpose for me using this software is universal restore basically.. which lead me to ask are there other software that do the same? Maybe they do work..
Btw when you restore an image, should you premake the partitions on the target disks at the same sizes or can you recover to unallocated space?
When you restore an image, you don't need to partition the disk beforehand. You can recovery to unallocated space.
Recovery cd of acronis true image 2011? I run the recovery action trough booting from the cd, but the image I create in windows.
OK. Good. I was not talking about doing the backup, just restoring the image from the CD, BTW.
Universal Restore is a pretty advanced feature where the registry is edited by ATI to switch drivers. This is not a trivial operation. It is often the best alternative short of having to reinstall everything.
I made a new backup but still again no universal restore, I deleted perfect disk beforehand. Could alcohol 120% or deamon tools be the problem?
After you have installed the Plus Pack, you need to produce a new recovery CD that will now include the universal restore feature. When you restore from the recovery CD you will see this feature when ATI asks you whether you want to restore "whole disks and partitions" or file and folders. It will be greyed out if ATI doesn't detect a system image.
Like I said it IS enable-able when I pick another image which is a clean install.
But as soon as I pick the big one with 200 games it doesn't even show the option, not even greyed out only the option disk or files.
this sucks..
Reconhell,
I am still trying to understand something from your first post:
- do you have a dual boot system? One disk with Win 7 alone, and one disk with Win 7 and the games?
- does the image containing the games include an OS?
Other users have reporting issues with dual boot systems and universal restore. If I were you, and if you have 2 OS installed, I'd try the following protocol:
- backup the OS with a disk and partition backup that creates an image you know features activates Universal Restore,
- remove the disk that you just backed up,
- using the Windows DVD, fix your startup so that you computer can boot directly in the other image that contains the other OS and your games,
- try UR on that image. I would guess it will work this time, because it will contain an active partition.
- you can then restore each disk with the UR feature.
- once both disks are restored, you will probably have to fix the startup again to reactivate the multi-boot.
No these images were seperate system is always SINGLE boot.
Still same problem if I choose on an EMPTY disk, a SINGLE image of clean windows no drivers it has universal restore option.
If I choose SINGLE image of win7 + 100 games it doesn't even show it all not grey nothing, only recover disk or files options.
I am running out of ideas. You might want to wait for somebody else to come up with something to try, or contact Acronis support. Support for recoveries is free.