Possibilty to make a bootable backup from Disk 2

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We had problems booting a PC from it's disk. So we removed that disk from this machine and were able to mount it as disk 2 in an other system. All checks ran fine and we were able to read the whole disk.

We suppose the drives hardware to be slightly damaged, but we think it runs fine on this machine now.

1) Is it possible to use 'Acronis True Image 2009 Home' to backup this disk while it is installed in that other machine? Our aim is, to clone all the data to a new disk.
2) Will the new disk become automaticaly bootable?
3) We do not yet have 'Acronis True Image 2009 Home' installed on the machine where the disk is mounted right now. Is it mandatory to boot the machine whilst installing (danger of disk not spinning up again)?

Just in case it matters: there are 2 partitions on that 'defective' disk.

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 07:52
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If the disk is not the boot disk on the 2nd machine and ypu've booted up that machine then a clone of it is not going to show up as boot disk -- Windows has already marked it during boot-up as not a system/boot disk.

A better method would be to try to backup the full disk while still in place as boot/system disk and then replace the hardisk and restore the image to the new harddisk. This is why it's so great to have backups on hand at all times. But it sounds like latching the stall after the horse has left in this case. But all is not lost.
Because, failing that, what I'd probably do, is install OS (and programs) on a a replaced hardisk in the first machine and then copy data files from the backup to the new drive.

In any event, I'd backup the suspect drive right away before anything elese happens -- you can probably do this with the bootCD, although that would mean booting up. Then you'll have a copy of the drive image that includes all your data files.

If you're worried about risking a booting up, then I'd copy the data files to some safe location before proceeding with any routine that requires boot up. Tedious an unfortunate, but its what happens when we don't have backups on hand -- and we've all been there at one time or another.

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 11:35
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I completely agree on what you say about backups.

I decided all the same about saving the data: we already took a copy of them by means of the unstoppable copier and MSBackup - all data seemed accessible. We do have copy of the data before the machine no longer booted as well - so I'm not too concerned about data loss. What we do not have however is an installable image of the OS... And that cost's time...

Thanks for your details about what happened when we installed the drive as disk 2. This helps me a lot to continue without making wrong trials.

My next step will be to put the drive back into the first system an I hope it will boot now... As far as I know this will make Windows to mark the disk as bootable again... And I hope I'll be able to draw a bckup then by means of the bootCD. Let's hope it will start up twice more - and let's hope it was teh hardware and not some data on the disk itself...

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 14:53