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I need an OS imaging software and when I googled, it took me to this, but i don't see in the feature page shows that it will do the OS imaging. I might looked for non-popular keyword. So, i am not sure if Acronis True Image software can do what i am looking for. Basically what i need is a software that can create an image of my entire OS, i mean everything on my machine including the RAID setting, BIOS settings (from hardware settings to software).

Is Acronis True Image Home the software can serves my needs?

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Yes TI Home 2010 can image the OS and all the applications installed. It does not save the BIOS settings and I don't know of any software that does. See http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/features.html for some details.

but i don't see in the feature page shows that it will do the OS imaging.

Under Core features and technologies:
IT says Core features and technologies

* Disk Imaging

Backup and restore the entire system on-the-fly.

The manufacturers BIOS flashing program will normally allow the BIOS contents to be saved as a BIN file, which can then be included in your OS image.

to add slightly to Colin's comment, if you enter the BIOS during boot up of the computer, one of your options is going to be to SAve (i.e., to keep) the BIOS settings. An additional opiton probably is going to be to save the BIOS settings to file. Another option will be to LOAD settings from a file, such as one you already saved. Boot up and check this out on your particular PC. Assuming you can, save the settings to file and note where the file is located. After restoring, boot up and go into the BIOS and load the saved settings file.

I haven't seen these options with my older Dell BIOS (which I bring up often), but now I have to go searching for them! I haven't checked the BIOS flashing program for this file saving capability, so I have to check what documentation I have. Interesting...

Thanks all for your comments.

I forgot to mention one thing, i am looking for a product that can create the image of my windows 2003 and windows 2008 servers. It looks like the TI Home 2010 only supports the desktop instead of the servers.

Any Acronis product that can do the OS image for Dell Raid 1 or 5 Windows servers? The purpose is if the server crashed, the hardware goes bad completely, we have its image somewhere else and just simply restore that image to a new physical server with exact same settings as the crashed server (without or with a very minimal additional settings after the restoration).

Kim,

You need to look at Acronis Backup and Recocvery 10, the server version.