One emergency rescue startup disk for different PC's?

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I have made an emergency startup rescue disk for my desktop. I have a second copy of True Image on my laptop--same version and fully separately licensed

Question: Can I use the desktop-made rescue disk also for the laptop or does the desktop disk contain machine specific info and thus I need a specific disk for the laptop.

Reason I ask: My laptop could read and boot from a CD but the device attached to it can not write to a cd. So if feasible I would like to use the desktop made CD rather than move to a usb option for the laptop.

Fri, 06/24/2011 - 03:09
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If it's not WinPE-based (if you don't know, then it's not) it will be the same, there is no need to make it on other machine. Even if it were not the case, e.g. machine with TI installed has no CD writer, you could write the media to .iso file (there is an option in media builder) and burn it to disc on other machine.

Fri, 06/24/2011 - 03:23
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Thanks. After thinking about it more that is what I suspected. I think I will copy the rescue "disk" I made to a usb key on the laptop to my desktop and copy files to a CD there. That I suspect that will enable a bootable CD for the laptop. Then I will set my laptop to first check CD when booting.

I can access backup files that I make on the laptop and store on an external hard drive. The problem with the rescue operation is that True Image boots the laptop and the program starts with good opening screen but the the True Image Rescue menu is not readable. I used "safe mode" Acronis True Image download add-in and that works a lot better but very bottom of screen is cut off where buttons are but I can still activate them.

Safe mode program though apparently will not read backup from external usb hard drive. So in a dire emergency I guess I could use desktop to copy backup file from the external hard drive and put it on CD via desktop and the laptop Rescue program could then read that CD. I hope.

Bottom line one: A lot of this is beyond my understanding--such as the many earlier posts from others about menu not being clear and various ways to try and fix that. Bottom line two: For normal backups and restore the external hard drive and installed True Image work fine on laptop. In disasater scenario I could still, I believe once I try it, boot from the CD. Then hopefully restire from the backup file I transfer from external hard drive to the CD.

I guess the only true way to confirm all this is to do a complete restore and see how it goes. But that really scares me when the system is otherwse OK.

I apprecate your thoughts and sorry for being so long-winded but it actually helped me get my thoughts in order as to what to try next.

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Fri, 06/24/2011 - 17:04
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I guess the only true way to confirm all this is to do a complete restore and see how it goes. But that really scares me when the system is otherwse OK.

Exactly. You don't need to actually restore a whole partition to test. Just boot on the CD and restore only a couple of files from the partition backup (the ATI version from the CD allows you to do this).

Sat, 06/25/2011 - 00:05
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I'll go along with restoring a few files as being a reasonable test if you also include validating the image archive with the boot CD. The response in many cases where an image cannot be restored is to copy important files out of the archive which demonstrates while you can copy files you may not be able to restore the image. Reason for this is probably the fact that the image has to have every bit of it read and confirmed successfully for a complete restore. When doing a few files only the checksums associated with the blocks containing those files need to be correct.

It is scary doing a restore if you don't know it will work because any failure will leave you with unallocated space. The absolute best way to do a test is to a spare drive.

Sat, 06/25/2011 - 14:15