Can I use ABR 10 for imaging a harddrive?

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Hi all - new guy here,
I have a PC in my classroom that I just loaded our factory image on and I want the ability to go back to that fresh image any time I want. I just purchased ABR10 Workstation thinking this is what I needed but it doesn't seem to jump right out at you how to do this. I see "backup" but I'm not sure this is what I had in mind. I wanted to be able to store an image of the drive, on the drive and restore from that image. Preferrably without having to use a bootdisk or other media. I did see some command line commands, i.e. trueimagecmd.exe /create, etc in the help. Is this how I have to do this?
I was hoping to have some gui driven solution. Did I buy the wrong software?

Is there a tutorial on how to do this using the software I just purchased?

Thanks in advance,

Rick

Mar, 10/12/2010 - 16:48
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Without boot disk (generally*), you can't take the 'fresh' image, only 'fresh with ABR 10 installed'. And without boot disk, you won't be able to restore if the disk is corrupted (**)

I see "backup" but I'm not sure this is what I had in mind.

This is. If you installed it, did it create 'manage this machine' shortcut on the desktop? Run it,
http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABR10/#1653.html
then Actions->Backup, (what to backup - 'volumes' and all available volumes will be selected by default) then 'where to backup' you select some directory somewhere and meaningful archive name, leave 'backup type - full' and 'shedule - run now' as is , and press 'ok'.
http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABR10/index.html#707.html

(*) - unless you have second system installed on the computer or have an ability to plug the hard drive in another computer.
(**) - you can, of course, reinstall windows, reinstall ABR, then restore from windows with reboot but it's still a good idea to verify that bootable components can see your hard drives and archive storage when running not from windows.

Mar, 10/12/2010 - 19:31
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Yesterday I spent some time going through the help and I found what I think will work although I may be mistaken. It is not what I had envisioned but it may do what I need.
I created a new vault zone via the GUI and rebooted.
Then I went to a cmd prompt and typed trueimagecmd --partition:1-1 --asz --create
It created an image (yes, with ABR10 and everything I wanted in it) to the zone. I can restore the image via the GUI, which I think it restores as a backup, a reboot is needed to replace the image. Seems to work.
What I had hoped was that during bootup you'd be prompted to go into recovery mode. I did see where I could turn on something (press f11) that would give me this access - I haven't tried it yet.
I was hoping that ABR would make a "recovery drive" like you see on PCs like Dell.
I think I can save another image to the zone and add a name to it so I'll have 2 images - again, haven't tried it. Not sure if an image is the same as a backup in ABR terms. Still need to do more reading I guess.

Mer, 10/13/2010 - 13:32
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I was hoping that ABR would make a "recovery drive" like you see on PCs like Dell.

It's called ASRM and the button 'activate ASRM' must be somewhere on the right panel.

trueimagecmd --partition:1-1 --asz --create

If OS is windows 7 with reserved partition, chances are that you backed up that 100 Mb reserved partition and nothing else.

Image is a type of backup.

Mer, 10/13/2010 - 18:29