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2010 & Triple booting Vista

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Hello All,
I have three Vista Home premium 32 bit systems (various stages from no updates to all updates installed) on 3 hard drives using vista boot pro to do the heavy lifting (booting) chores. Question .... all of the hard drive OS's have TI-2010 ,and the default "OS" has a 50GB ASZ . When booted into any of the three .. the "booted "OS" sees the secure zone of the default "OS" . Should i Remove Acronis from two of the systems and just leave TI installed on the Default ? ...Or does it not matter ? Question two....The TI boot time Recovery Mgr. will not do a "recovery" (hangs on Recover) but still can perform backups. Also i can no longer use my Recovery disk... OS does not see it at boot time . The BIOS is set correctly, Any ideas ? Thanks in advance, Regards Fred

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If all the hard drives are installed at all times, then you only need one installation of TI (strictly speaking the licence only allows you one installation).

If you want to boot into a different copy of Vista and then run TI in Window's, then indeed you will need to have a copy installed. This wouldn't be the case if using the recovery CD.

As for the SZ, apart from the fact I would advise against using the SZ, especially if you have a spare external drive you could image to. If your main drive died, you'd lose all your backups. You could perhaps consider imaging each drive to one of the other drivers. In theory I would expect each installtion of TI to recognise the SZ, but only of course if the default drive is always in place.

Strange that the CD will make an image but not restore. You say 'I can no longer' does this mean that at one time you could use the CD to recover? If so, what has changed in the meantime?

Colin, Hello
I will try to explain ... i "boot" now 3 hard drives. Three of the "OS's" are vista home premium (same but just different level of things installed ) Yes when booting just one system i could do all actions from the "recovery CD" and "recovery manager" the "VistaPro boot loader "gives you a choice at boot time as to which system you want, however the recovery disk will "load" before you get a chance to make that selection... so now i think TI gets confused. As it does not know what "HD" to do. just stalls at "recover" The "work around" is to have TI installed on each "HD" ...so if one "HD" fails you still can boot to a working system and recover from there. Just wondering though that there must be many out there that dual or triple or Quad boot, who use TI but have never heard of any problems using the recovery CD. TI works A-OK running from windows otherwise . I have tried switching the "BIOS" around ...to no avail. Thanks for your reply,Regards Fred

Hello Fred and Colin,

Let me address this situation for you.

Colin is correct - you can install the product to one system only if the hard drives are visible from each system (you're not hiding them from each other in some way). Surely you will have to boot the system the product installed on in order to backup any drive within your PC.

The Standalone Version loads before any system starts - this is by default. When you selecting your PC to boot from CD it just does not check your HDD's for active partitions and boots straight to CD. Our product can work fine with triple boot systems and you will be able to back them up in a usual way.

Please let me know if you have any other questions, I would be glad to help you.

Regards,

Alexander, Colin,
Thank you both for your help . Using both of your input i was able to track down the problem .... not being able to use "recovery CD, or "recovery Manager" .Strangely enough it was an "update" Raxco's PD-10 v 129 ( previous version 125) for some reason this update killed these two functions. If you wish i will post a new thread on this if you think it might be of some benefit to others who may use Raxco PD-10 v129 Regards Fred