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Creating a HDD Image not a clone

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Hi, I have just purchased True Image 2018 and I am looking to be able to take an image of several HDDs and then store these images on one USB HDD. The only thing I can see if how to clone one disk directly to another and I do not want to be able to do this, I would like multiple images all stored on one USB HDD. Thanks

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I have the same question, and the part I am confused about is once you burn the AIK recovery DVD how do you use it ? Is it bootable ? Like Acronis overall but we need a flowchart or a tutorial video please. Been using earlier versions to clone drives, now I want to make recovery images and restore them to good hard drives. Thanks in advance, J  

Ian & John...welcome to these user forums.  True Image will do exactly what you want it to do.

I highly recommend downloading the user manual.  Chapter 3 discusses basic concepts.  Chapter 4 covers backing up disks and partitions.  I believe you want to make disk (not partition) backups.  You should also use the full partition list.

Here's some pics to get you started:

Click on "Add Backup" in lower left:

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In the upper left, type in the name of the backup:

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Then move your mouse over the block labeled "Entire PC"  Which will then change to "Change Source"

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Click on Change Source which brings up the next menu:
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Select Disks and Partitions which brings up:

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Then select full partition list which brings up the full partition list as below:

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Then click OK...back to main screen:

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Hover your mouse over Acronis Cloud to bring up the destination as below:

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Click on Change destination:

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Click on Browse and navigate to where you want to store the backups.

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Here, I click on Data (M:)

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You can select "New folder" and type in the name of the folder, which will create a new folder.  Then click OK.

Which brings you back to the main screen:

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Then select "Options"

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Then you can select the schedule for the backups.  

Then backup scheme

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Notifications...if you want e-mail notifications.

Then Exclusions:

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Then Advanced:

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Then click OK which takes you back to the main screen:

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Click backup now.

 

The slides above should get you started....you should download the user guide and read through it.  It contains a lot of good information.

Hope this  helps.

Regards,

FtrPilot

Excellent, thanks for the detailed response. I will give it a try thanks