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Am I missing the whole point ?

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Hi, is it that I am missing something ?

When you make a boot disc in True Image its not really a bnoot disc. The puter does not boot from it. It seems to be a disc that allows you to invoke some kind of recovery from a protected partition that you've already set up on the HDD using SRM.

But surely the point of the boot disc is that it boots the puter when the HDD has failed ? And if it has failed then how will you invoke a partiation on a failed drive ?

Maybe I am missing something here ? Why doesn't the boot disc just boot ? Doesn't this mean that you can't come back from a full HDD failure or a bare metal start ?

I am sure its 'me' but could anyone explain it a bit more to me ?

Thanks,

Colin

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Nope, unless something has radically changed in the latest version, the BootCD boots you into linux from the CD. If you do, e.g., a backup from within windows, the machine will reboot into linux from the hdisk (Recovery Environment).

Booting for the CD, it shouldn't even care if any operating system is present on the hdisks. Otherwise, how could you boot up to do a restore if you had only one hdisk in the PC and it had to be repalced?

If your pc doesn't boot from the boot disk, go into the Bios and check the boot priority. If that was correct, try the boot disk in another computer.