ABR 10 Stand Alone Backup & Vista & Windows 7 partitions
Hi folks:
I have a question about the stand alone version of ABR 10. When I do a full image backup of my computer I usually do it from the stand alone CD and back it up to a network location (I'm old fashioned, and feel better about a backup that was made when the OS itself wasn't running). I remember from TI Echo that there was an issue with backing up Vista in this manner in that you had to back up the entire hard disk, not just the boot partition and the partition with Vista on it. If you did that and subsequently did a restore there were issues where Vista didn't want to boot back up without going through some long recovery action (it eventually booted up and apparently no data was lost, but it took the better part of an hour to run the disk check or whatever it was trying to do), although that method worked fine for WinXP for many years; apparently there was something in the MRR or the partition table that wasn't the same if you didn't backup the entire hard drive, which Vista detected and didn't like.
I wanted to find out if anyone knew if this issue had been solved in ABR 10's stand alone version. The reason I ask is that I have a partition on the desktop that contains backups from other computers (e.g. my laptop), which prior to the Vista issue I routinely skipped when doing the stand alone backup. I'm running Windows 7 now on the desktop, and I'm curious if that's still a problem. I remember reading something on the Acronis site about this, but I can't find it again.
srw

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