using a backup created with acronis true image home 2011

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Hello,
I have used the acronis true image home 2009 to mount an image onto a new hard drive when the other hard drive was failing and to do that I inserted the recovery disk into the drive and then when prompted selected the image so that my pc was were it was before the hard drive began to fail - only this time with a new hard drive installed.

However, I have a pc that I was doing some things on and was creating system restore points so that if things did not go as I wanted I could revert back to prior to the changes that were being made. However, when I tried to use one of the system restore points there were only 2 available and neither of them were ones that I had made prior to doing anything. And there were no other restore points either. (not sure what happened to all my restore points).

Anyway, I thought that I would use my most recent backup that I created (which was prior to my changing some things on the pc) using Acronis True Image Home 2011 but am not 100% sure of how to go about this. At first I thought that I should select to mount an image but somehow from what I read that is not what I am should do.

How do I go about using one of my backup images created with Acronis True Image Home 2011 (they are all full backups) to get my pc back to where it was about a week ago?

TIA

mer 05/10/2011 - 17:29
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It's still the same as with TI 2009. Boot to the TI 2011 CD and restore the Full image you want to the drive. You "Restore" an image to a drive, not "Mount" it to a drive. Mounting is done in Windows and allows you to access the backup image using a normal drive letter. It doesn't restore the backup. Also, you can't mount from the TI CD so I assume what you actually did with TI 2009 was a restore.

I wouldn't count on Restore Points being around when you need them. I usually just turn them off since I've never had them work decently on my systems.

mer 05/10/2011 - 18:19
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Thanks for letting me know. When I was reading the information on the mounting of the drive I sort of figured that I did not want to do that. So in order to restore a full image I just do exactly what I did when I installed a new hard drive and needed to copy that image to the new hard drive. I wasn't sure if that was what I had to do or if there was a different way to do that and now I know.

Thanks So Very Much for clearing that up for me.

Lisa

ven 07/10/2011 - 22:21