Buying True Image

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I have used Norton Ghost 9.0 for many years and am very satisfied. It is easy to make images of a boot disk and then recreate this disk. I have done that several times.

For me the ability to make disk images is very important. I have huge installations of Microsoft Flight Simulator etc and it would take me a month full time to restore all my 4 hard disks if I should have to reinstall each program (finding the registration code, connecting to certain websites to register certain addons etc etc).

I bought a 256 Gb SSD disk recently. This gives me much better performance. Norton Ghost does not support SSD however.

I use Windows XP Professional. I use the SSD for my flight simulators not for the OS (Windows is installed on a Velocity Raptor). So I have no need for making bootable images (at least not for the moment).

I have read about Acronis and have the following questions (I have spent an hour looking for the answers to these questions on this forum but not found them).

1. Can I make an image of an SSD and then recreate this image on the same or another SSD (perhaps an SSD of another size)?

2. As far as I understand it, Acronis True Image is not able to realign an SSD partition (4 kb) for the moment. Will this be implemented? And if so, when? I have no use for an image program without this realignment function. I have realigned my SSD after reading on the Internet for hours and downloading programs. If I restore my SSD from an image and my realignment is destroyed, the speed will drop considerably, which is unacceptable. So before I buy Acronis True Image I must know that this realignment business is working.

Thanks!

Krister Renard
Uppsala

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 22:08
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1. Yes - to the same drive. You may have problems restoring to a different drive.

2. You shouldn't have a problem backing up an aligned partition and restoring it back into the aligned partition. Most of the problems come from mixing non-aligned and aligned partitions.

You can test this using the trial version. This would allow you to make sure it works correctly for you before you buy it. Just make an Entire Disk Image backup (Disk # checked). If the partition restore fails to restore aligned, restoring the Entire Disk Image should put it back like it was.

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