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Making image of Windows OS disk from a USB dock

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I own Acronis True Image Home 2011 with the Plus Pack. I work on lots of different PC's so I'd like to make an image of each ones OS hard drive so I can put it back on if I screw up. What I'm doing now is taking the OS hard drive out of a PC and putting it my USB docking station then running Acronis backup and make an image to my backups folder. So my question is, if I want to put that image back on the the drive I'm working on will it still be bootable when I put it back in the PC I'm working on (exactly like it was)?

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If you put a system disk on a USB adapter and you boot a computer with the USB attached, Windows will assign new letters to the partitions and that what will be backed up. You will have to correct this at restore time. That might be easy to do, or harder if you have multiple partitions.
The safest way would be to do the backup from the recovery CD (ie the computer doesn't boot on Windows, but on the recovery CD).

Best backups made when the source disk is its original installed location. Use the TI Recovery CD and do the backup from the computer to your docking station backup folder.

when recovering a prior backup, best if target disk is place inside the computer and the restore be done via TI Rcover CD from backup file to target disk inside computer.