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Acronis Disk Imaging with an Encrypted System drive

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If I have my System Drive encrypted with TrueCrypt can I image my hard drive with Acronis True Image Home 11 and then restore it? Will this work and I would be backing up while I'm using windows and restoring from the Acronis Bootable CD.
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Jordan

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http://kb.acronis.com/content/14877

http://kb.acronis.com/content/1649

You can only backup from the recovery CD and backup with the sector-by-sector option.

If you backup from Windows, with some fix, you can restore an unencrypted image and reencrypt:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/15653

Yes, it is possible, but not obvious. Check out http://forum.acronis.com/forum/15653

Jordan,

I have not tried the method in the post myself. What does it say?
It says that you can backup from Windows. You would backup all your partitions using a disk and partition backup. If the backup succeeds, there is no low-level conflict between TrueCrypt and ATI in Windows, you are in good shape.

If possible, you should try a restore on another spare disk. Ideally an internal disk so that you can boot. If you test your restore on a USB disk it won't boot.

When you restore, according to the post, you would use the recovery CD, you'd restore only the partitions, but not the MBR & track 0. Then you could use your Windows installatin DVD to fix the startup of your computer. After a couple of passes, this would fix the MBR. Now your computer would boot on an unencrypted disk.

Frankly, if I were you, I would simply do my backups from the recovery CD from time to time to have a somewhat recent backup of my system and apps (and content), and run a regular file backup from Windows to get an up-to-date backup of my content.