Can I Create a Set of Restore Disks for My System?
Hi Gang,
My apologies if this has been addressed before, but I tried searching numerous variations of my keywords and could not find anything on it.
First, I know how to make a full disk image backup, how to save it to ASZ partition and/or another internal or external hdd. And I know how to create and boot from bootable media. I have even stored a backup across multiple DVDs. But when I tried to restore from those DVDs, Acronis 2009 would not even start the recovery until it found the second DVD... which never happened. I tried popping out the first DVD and then inserting # 2, even tried starting the entire process over again with an external USB DVD hooked up so that both backup volumes were in the ODDs at the launch... but ATIH never saw the Vol 2 disk.
So I got to wondering... what if I could make a set of HDD Image Restore Disks... like the ones that come with many brand-name PCs these days.
So is this even possible with ATIH? If so, has anyone tried it? how did it work? can you help me to do it?
I have several ATIH licenses... a couple of ATIH 10 licenses, and the 2009 upgrade to each of them, and one license for ATIH 2011. And I would not be averse to investing in ATIH 2012... IF that is the only way to do what I want to do.
Here's hoping I get my answer soon! Thanks, in advance.
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thanks, Pat L. I have external usb hdds, but I just rebuilt an older laptop for a very non-technical family member, who happens to live on the other side of the country from me, and I was hoping that I could pack a set of restore disks in the box when I send it back to him. Of course, I'd have a copy of them here and images on my nas raid, because I'm sure he'd lose them by the time he ever needed them. lol
Seriously though, what tool do the brandnames use to create their recovery disks, we wonders, yes we does. Most of them do not even ship recovery disks with the systems anymore, but make them available upon request. I know Dell allows one free set, even years after the system is out of warranty. And last year SONY only charged me slightly more than shipping costs for a set to a 2004 VAIO that a friend of mine snagged in a yard sale (it was buried underneath some other odds and ends and in the same box as the PSP she wanted and got the whole box for a Jackson! what a find!). And a brand new Acer portable came with an app installed that created the recovery disks for whomever supplied the media.
So somebody, somewhere MUST be writing code that will create custom recovery disks. But who?
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For a laptop, the closest thing you can achieve with ATI is to create an Acronis Secure Zone on the laptop and stop a full backup there, then activate the ACronis Startup Recovery Manager. This will be a system close to the OEM recovery partitions. Of course, if the disk dies, you are out of luck with this system.
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