Moving from Perfect Image to True Image and Unsure
Hello All
Just want to make suew I do not get myself into trouble.
Here is what I could do with Avanquest Perfect Image ( not supported on Windows 10) Thus my questions here.
Whenever I bring a new computer into the business, I would do what Avanquest called a Clone Disk. This would create an image of the new computers disk OS and All onto a portable Hard Drive. I would assign the clone image to have a name indicating what computer the clone was made from.
Perfect Image would Allow me to clone to the target portable drive WITHOUT requiring any wiping of the target. I was able to have, for example, disk clones image files for 5 differrent machines all on one portable archive drive.
After all that, I would then load my basic programs ... MS Office, ets to the computer and after that execute another clone and assign it a different name.
The point of all this??? When my customers system went crazy and I would not be able to fix, I would restore the appropriate clone image of just the machine as it came from the factory, or as it looked after all the programs had been loaded onto it and all would be as it was at least at the time I had loaded all the programs on ( or as it came from the factory) and knew all was working.
Now to True Image .. I read about back up, and I read about cloning, but I also read about cloning to migrate to a larger drive. ....
Migrating to a larger drive is NOT what i want to do. I want to move that cloned image BACK to the drive from which it came.
#1 Is this what True Image will be able to do?
#2 Will it allow me to make multiple clone images to a target drive or is it One Drive - One image affair?
#3 Will it allow me to bring the image back to a replacement drive that I have installed into the old/offending and messed up computer?
I attach a screen shot and wonder if everything on my target is going to be wiped and if I will be allowed to put many image on the drive
Thanks for helping
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You have perfectly answered my question .. even though I was perhaps inarticulate in posting it! Thank You so very much. BTW this ability has saved me in many instances where the system becomes so bogged down with unknown and unfixable junk, that having a "good working" copy of the entire disk to bring back to the orignal location and wipe and then reimage is a godsend. ( it does wipe the target disk (the orignal source) when restoring, correect?)
Yes, I may have to then reinstall a program or two that may have been added since I made the disk backup image, but that is a lot easier than restoring to factory state and then having to load all the programs and all the various settings onto the system again. ( I learned this the hard way).
Thanks Again for your great help!
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Yes, when restoring it does wipe the target disk, so as always, be careful in making the right choice of target!
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Steve Smith wrote:....
The only issue that you may encounter, and I would suppose would be the same for your previous product, is in taking an image from a vanilla (never booted / installed) virgin system. You would need to create the Acronis bootable rescue media and ensure that this can recognise all of the hardware in the new system required to create an offline backup image. This may need the creation of Windows PE rescue media if you have very new technology SSD drives which have no current device support in the standard Acronis, linux based, rescue media.
Hi Steve .. some clarification(s) ..
#1 On the never booted stystem you mention ( not including the SSD) .. I am inferring that TI can clone a standalone OS disk??, for example, the one that comes from the factory on my windows 10 machine, which has not gone through all that setup stuff that happens when you turn you machine on for the first time out of the box but which has been removed and put in to a dive cage and hooked up to a working computer as a slave drive that is to be cloned???
Maybe you were meaning someting else. Please advise. I am struggling on the plain vanilla/never booted terms.
#2 On the rescue media - I have for example 5 computers with various OS - Win xp ,Win 10 etc on them. Can I just make one rescue media and use it across all machines or is the rescue media unique to each machine. 5 machines - 5 rescue media.
#3 My system has a recovery partition on the physical HD ( Hewlett Packard). Does TI clone and recover all partitions on the Source disk or is it just the just the OS partition.
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#1 You can use the ATIH bootable rescue media to clone or backup any disk that it can recognise and doesn't really care as to what status that drive has provided it can be read without generating sector errors etc. Unless you are intending to have an identical second (cloned) disk drive sitting on a shelf 'just in case' of being needed in the future, then using the boot media to create a full disk backup image of the system to an external hard drive can be a better option, with the added benefit of being able to store multiple such backup images on the external drive.
#2 The same rescue media for ATIH 2016 is capable of being used on multiple different systems with different hardware, again provided that the hardware devices are detected / recognised correctly in each different system. The boot media can also be used in both legacy or UEFI boot modes.
#3 When you make an entire disk backup image it will include all partitions on that disk drive, including hidden system partitions.
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