TI Home 9 ~ Moving .ISO image from HDD to a DVD
I am in the process of updating several PC OS's and am making ISO images as a recovery method to go back to earlier versions of an OS should I need to. I am working on a box with XP Pro SP3, and Acronis TI Home 9 (will be upgrading to ver. 2013/2014 after I update all PC's.
I have no problem, creating ISO's (on a 2nd local HDD) and moving them to my remote External Backup Drive (2TB Western Digital) across my network.
The problem I am running into is; after moving the image to a DVD RW using WIN 7 Native ISO Burner (On my main box). I take the DVD to the original box and reboot the system. Acronis Start up manager loads, shows the the image (to load) and the option to boot to the normal OS installed, but there is no mouse or keyboard functions to move to the next step. I am not invoking any "bootable startup media parameters". The only parameter I see of any use is nomouse (but I need mouse support).
I have looked at the image, and there is a mouse.com file on the disk but this is appearently not loading when doing a recovery. I have tried to burn the ISO image to disk using a couple other image burners, but the DVD images do not even read, the PC moves right into loading the OS without starting the recovery manager. Using the F11 key does not start the recovery manager.
My ultimate goal is to save ISO images to the external backup so disks and USB images can be created later if I want to use another OS. Before moving forward, I want to test the ISO's to ensure I can go back. I am trying to avoid having a bunch of disks to keep track of.
Eventually, I would like keep several images on USB drives, with the aim of injecting a virus into a computer (non-productive environment), crashing it and quickly reloading the system for testing and learning purposes.
The users guide does not go into great detail about creating disks from a HDD using ISO images. Is there a step by step process that is not not listed in the TI 2009 Users Guide I can use to create the image from from an ISO stored on a HDD?
Any ideas or advice to help me accomplish my goals would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!!!
Bruce,
If I am understanding you correctly, you are using the term "ISO" to signify a backup file and that backup file is an full data image of a computer. If I am correct, Acronis uses the term "ISO" to mean a boototable recovery CD--as referenced by MVP Tuttle above.
The backup file created by TrueImge Home software has a "TIB" file extension. TIB=TRUE IMAGE BACKU
Yes, you can store these TIB files on other disks as they are just files but only readable by the software which created them.
yes, a TIB backup file can be restored onto a new blank disk and mounted in the same computer and be bootable.
If it is your intention of place disk in other computers, you will need the PLUS pack additional cost extra program as the target restore may need different drivers, etc.
Click on link 1 below and review some of the links found inside my guides, There are guides relatiing to 2009 and newer.
Welcome to the learning curve of TrueImage Home.
2009 supports XP, XP Pro but not Windows 7 or 8.