Subdirectories From TI-8 Image Not Fully Copied Back Using TI-Home
TrueImageHome won't copy back (from a good IMAGE) a complete partition or even a complete directory without the transfer progress box either dying/disappearing (or the explorer browser window for the image totally freezing up) and i'm stuck not knowing if a directory's worth of subdirectories or a folder's worth of files has been fully migrated. Trying to do visual compares of 98 gigs worth of partitions, subdirectories and folders/files is out of the question. More often than not, I find copying attempts are INCOMPLETE.
Using a properly registered copy of TrueImage8 (obtained via a Give Away of the Day offer some time back) I made a routine but very timely complete IMAGE of my old pc's HD (which ran WinXP) to an external HD just days before a catastrophic failure of said pc.
My new computer uses Vista (BLECH), I don't have a separate partition nor a 2nd HD nor the expertise to attempt a dual boot setup, and of course the Catch22 of using giveawayoftheday is that if your harddrive fails, you've lost use of all programs installed (e.g., TI-8) because you won't have the special key/wrapper installed by Acronis/GAOTD on the old pc.
Deadlines forced me to download a trial version of the new TI- Home. I transferred the entire image from the external over to a spacious new harddrive and can SEE and even access all 98 gigs worth of old files in all 7 old partitions. yippee!
The demoralizing problem: sometimes an attempt to COPY from the IMAGE to the new HD fails. Copying a full partition fails every time. It may copy some directories, but then it dies. Copying smaller chunks (directories or even subdirectories) sometimes copies everything; but all too often, if i drill down to subdirectories on the new HD, I find that many of the folders/files were NOT copied over!!!!!!
This unpredicatability (will it copy fully or won't it) is baffling. Sometimes when TI-Home dies, I'm asked for my password again, sometimes not.
I'm greatful for what I've been able to access, but am totally frustrated. This trial expires soon, but I do NOT want to pay to get something that fails to work reliably! HELP
This is nothing more than something to try.
Are you using the TI Mount command or just exploring with the Windows Explorer. Try the Mount if you haven't. I don't believe TI8 had access via Windows Explorer.
THANK YOU SEEK! Yes, I was using Windows Explorer since that "seemed" to provide access that I was unable to acheive by launching TI-Home. (which begs the question... why the &#*@% isn't there a clear and intuitive option listed right in the blue Backup & Restore tab or even the blue Utilities tab for MOUNT... with an short explanation of what Mount means??)
Never had to use TI-8 except to image the old HD, so never did anything except watch the backup take place. Had no easy way to test if an image would actually work as promised, obviously never heard of Mount command. In fact, after reading your comment, I had to hunt for MOUNT (VILBS, it's hiding in the OPERATIONS drop down menu, clear as mud for layman).
For someone who has only a passing familiarity with virtual memory, the word Mount caused a TUMS moment as I don't have room to "mount" the entire image on this new pc as long as the image itself resides on it, too; but it turns out that "mount" allowed me to select which of the old directories to transfer/recopy/"mount" and assign Drive letters (unfortunately, the drive letters can't match since the new pc already coopted C, D, and E, which will presumably break a million shortcut links) but lo and behold, it appears to have moved at least one full directory. Even unmounts in a blink of an eye.
So, again, thank you very very much Seek. Wish I hadn't wasted the better part of the trial month spoonfeeding critical files from the old to the new before coming here in desperation.