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I installed True Image with Plus Pack on a Windows XP 32-bit SP3 Professional machine that currently has one disk divided into two partitions (system and data). I am going to add a second 2 TB disk and install Windows 7 64-bit OS. I have done this before and simply let Windows 7 create the dual boot menu since it will see that XP is installed on another disk.

I take it I should avoid using the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager? What are the advantages to using the Recovery Manager? If you create the Rescue Media, won't that give you everything you need to do a system restore? What about recovering a corrupt MBR? Will the Rescue media do that, or do you still need to create the Win XP rescue diskette? (which will be tricky since I don't own a floppy drive anymore).

Thanks,

Sean

sam 28/04/2012 - 20:33
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Sean,
These are excellent questions. My preference is an OS managed BOOT Manager. All the functionality you would need can be provided by the Acronis Bootable Media in a recovery scenario. Making a full image of your disk before installing the second OS will give you the ability to restore a single OS (where you are now).

If for some reason you were not able to start your machine from Acronis Boot Media (rare) there are plenty of other free utilities available which would likely be able to get you back to a point where the Acronis Media would work. Once there, the MBR could be restored using Acronis.

Even in the event of hardware failure, you will have an image which can be mounted, browsed, etc. With Acronis, all you need is a Acronis boot CD and your back up image. Its very important to test your ability to restore data by performing a "mock" recovery with you media after your first back up is created. This is best practice and part of a good back up strategy.

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Sean Stockburger wrote:

I installed True Image with Plus Pack on a Windows XP 32-bit SP3 Professional machine that currently has one disk divided into two partitions (system and data). I am going to add a second 2 TB disk and install Windows 7 64-bit OS. I have done this before and simply let Windows 7 create the dual boot menu since it will see that XP is installed on another disk.

I take it I should avoid using the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager?

Yes.

What are the advantages to using the Recovery Manager?

Maybe some convenience. But if your disk dies, the ASRM won't work.

If you create the Rescue Media, won't that give you everything you need to do a system restore?

Yes provided you have tested your rescue media. You have booted your comptuer on it and you have recovered a couple of files from your backup

What about recovering a corrupt MBR? Will the Rescue media do that, or do you still need to create the Win XP rescue diskette? (which will be tricky since I don't own a floppy drive anymore).

The Rescue Media offers you the option to restore what Acronis calls the MBR+Track0. Restoring this component doesn't restore the MBR entirely: the partition table is not touched. See post #7 here http://forum.acronis.com/forum/17793#.

If you install Win7, you will be able to switch to the Window7 boot manager and use the Win7 installation DVD to fix/repair your MBR and boot records.

Thanks,

Sean

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