Using Acronis through Remote Desktop

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I have both Acronis True Image as well as Disk Director.
I want to copy a partition to upgrade a hard drive on a headless (no monitor, keyboard or mouse - I control it using Windows Remote Desktop) computer using the partition copying tool. Both Acronis products that I've tried indicate that a reboot is required at the last step of the wizard.

Before I click yes, I need to know that the computer will restart in Windows instead of the Acronis startup because without Remote Desktop I won't know if user intervention is required.

If someone has used the "copy partition / drive" function and knows that the computer will restart in Windows or not, please let me know.

It's odd to me that the computer would need to restart given that both the HDD that I am copying from and the HDD that I'm copying to are both logical drives with no operating system on them.

Thanks in advance,

DK

Sat, 02/05/2011 - 14:47
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What versions and builds of TI and DD are you using?

The standard procedure is for it to reboot into either Linux or the Windows, do the operations, possibly reboot and do a check that it was done correctly, then reboot back into Windows. If anything goes wrong, though, you won't be able to see it.

Is it possible to get Windows to "unlock" them or dismount them so a reboot is not required? Some versions/builds require a reboot for seemingly stupid things (such as changing the partition label). Does running chkdsk /f on the source partition require a force dismount to run?

Have you considered creating an image backup and restoring that to the new drive.

Sat, 02/05/2011 - 17:39