True Image Home 2011 Newbie needs guidance!
Hi
I have just purchased True Image Home 2011 and I am a bit confused by all the options. I have tried some of these: full image back up, file back up, setting the latter to backup on a schedule. All work fine and I can access individual files OK. I also made a recovery disk.
Q1. I am not sure how to test the recovery disk
I want to back up all my files in case of loss or accidental deletion and also have complete image of my C drive so I can restore all my programs and files if a disaster strikes. It would be sufficient to take an initial image to keep permanently and then weekly images with the older ones being deleted as the external drive I am using gets full
Q2. Which backup scheme as ouitlined in the manual will be best for me?
Q3. I am a little confused about restoring from an image. I can see how to access and restore individual files but exactly how do I restore the whole C drive in a case of hardware failure or corruption. Does the recovery disk allow me to boot to Windows and then simply "restore" one of the images I have on the external drive?
Thank you for your patience

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If you haven't successfully restored with the TI rescue CD then I strongly suggest you do a test restore to a spare drive. One of the first things TI does before a partition restore is to delete the existing partition. If TI subsequently fails you are left with nothing but unallocated space instead of your partition. The TI rescue CD is Linux and sometimes the drivers have problems with certain hardware.
If you are unable to use a spare HD then I suggest you boot up the TI rescue CD and first validate the archive with it. If the validate is successful it indicates that it can properly read the archive and all its checksums. If you can do this then the probability is very good it will restore the archive but the absolute best way is to test it with a spare HD.
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