Using Bootable CD
I purchased Acronis TI Home 2009 two months ago and created a bootable CD. It works fine and by booting from it I have made a complete image of my internal HD onto an external HD. At the Wilders forum I was advised to use this CD for doing backups and restores and not the Acronis s/w on my PC. Is this correct?
Another thing I need to confirm is that even with my external HD online, Acronis does not recognize my backups under Manage Backups. Instead, I have to Browse for them. Again, is this the way it should work?
A related question is that under Protection State it does not recognize that I have made a system volume backup. On that screen, the Disk Space Monitor shows a green disk with a size of one TB, which is correct for my external HD; not my smaller internal HD.
Thanks,
Bart
Thanks very much, Bin.
Although this point of view is often promoted I know of no justification for not backing up the system partition using the installed version of Acronis. It is completely reliable and is at least three times quicker than using the CD. The CD is required to restore an image to a non-booting computer, or to a new drive. It is not required for routine imaging and restoration.
I downloaded the True Image Home 2010 and created a bootable CD. The CD boots fine...when the app starts (after some time) I get an error to the effect: "Can't read Sector 132,157' - with the option to retry, ignore. I select IGNORE ALL....after some more time...it goes to a smal dialog box with that says something like "Initiailizing" with an hourglass...after a while it simply reboots...I've been through this cycles at least 6 times...same result every time.
Any ideas what it is doing (or trying to do)?
I downloaded the True Image Home 2010 and created a bootable CD. The CD boots fine...when the app starts (after some time) I get an error to the effect: "Can't read Sector 132,157' - with the option to retry, ignore. I select IGNORE ALL....after some more time...it goes to a smal dialog box with that says something like "Initiailizing" with an hourglass...after a while it simply reboots...I've been through this cycles at least 6 times...same result every time.
Any ideas what it is doing (or trying to do)?
I downloaded the True Image Home 2010 and created a bootable CD. The CD boots fine...when the app starts (after some time) I get an error to the effect: "Can't read Sector 132,157' - with the option to retry, ignore. I select IGNORE ALL....after some more time...it goes to a smal dialog box with that says something like "Initiailizing" with an hourglass...after a while it simply reboots...I've been through this cycles at least 6 times...same result every time.
Any ideas what it is doing (or trying to do)?
I downloaded the True Image Home 2010 and created a bootable CD. The CD boots fine...when the app starts (after some time) I get an error to the effect: "Can't read Sector 132,157' - with the option to retry, ignore. I select IGNORE ALL....after some more time...it goes to a smal dialog box with that says something like "Initiailizing" with an hourglass...after a while it simply reboots...I've been through this cycles at least 6 times...same result every time.Any ideas what it is doing (or trying to do)?
Try running chkdsk /r on your hard drive. True Image is very very picky when it comes to hardware. For something that Windows will happily ignore, True Image will halt and throw up an error.
Not sure how...given my system won't boot - other than with the Acronis CD. (that's the whole point).
Can I get to chkdsk /r from the Acronis boot CD? how so?
Bob, please clarify your situation. If you were able to create the bootable CD then your system must be able to boot .... or did you use another system to create the CD. I thought it was the application on the bootable CD that was finding errors.