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Hello all,

as we all face some time our PC/laptop fails without warning and sometimes it is more efficient to format the hard disk and restore it from an image we created before.. I have been using Paragon backup and creating DVDs, and backing up all the C;Drive on the DVDs (12 DVD's for a 62gb c drive) then formatting hard disk, and booting from the backup disks and voila' all your O/S and files are back on the formatted disk again. so far it was good and providing that you have not changed your mother board or it would not work at all.

However it takes appx 2 hours to restore 12 DVDs and it is slow and sometimes hazardous as it is temperamental and freezes or stops in the middle of restoring.
and 12 DVD for each time i refresh a back up???.

so my question is.

I have a 320GB seagate USB hard drive, I want to back up whole C; Drive to it.
and put it away , next time laptop plays up and gets messy to recover, i should FORMAT the c: drive clean, and plug in my USB hard disk and recover the image/backup.
1- How can i do it with acronis?
2- Can i update my back up periodically and still be able to do my restore to a formatted C;Drive without re installing win7?
3- do i need any other CD/DVD before i use the back up in the USB drive?
(Paragon had that advantage that you did not need to have any other disks other than the back up DVDs and after formatting your drive you just boot with CD (bios) and all would be OK?
Paragon was OK if you want to have hundreds of DVDs for each successive back up, but When USB drives are cheap and gives you a chance to update your back ups... so far I have not seen any programs to do just that, all seems that you have to have win 7 installed before you use your restores which is a bit time consuming...

Thank you in advance for any help

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Cyborg7,

1. This is the main thing True image does - you make full disk image to your USB drive and it is ready to be restored at a later date.

2. You can either set up a schedule or a manual task and either add incrementals or differential images to the main image, this then becomes an archive.

3. To restore an image that contains the system file it is best to have made a recovery CD which you boot from and then restore your image on the USB drive.

It is possible to make a bootable USB drive or CD/DVD that contains an image file.

Here is a link with more information http://kb.acronis.com/content/34873 there are other links there on what you can do with True Image as well as how to go about it. The User Guide can also be downloaded from the Acronsi website.

Whether you make a recovery CD or make the media bootable you will need to check that it can boot your PC and see your hard drives before making images. The recovery environment is based on Linux.

I recently updated from Image Home 2012 to 2013. I created an Acronis Bootable CD after doing a full backup of C to D after upgrading to 2013 planning on being able to use it to recover from a failure of C. My C; drive has problems..can't boot. My Acronis Bootable Cd WILL not BOOT!! Using MS tools I can verify data is still on C using chkdsk c: /p. However it says I have 1 or more unrecoverable problems. I only have an update version of XP Pro, can't locate my original XP CD, so I can't try to recover that way. I was running XP Pro SP3 32 bit w/4GB on memory before this happened. I really need my My Docs folder where everthing is stored....

If I format the C drive will I then be able to use the bootable CD and recover my back up from D: ? Or is there something short of a format that will recover/repair C so I can get my system back.

My final destination is to go to Win 7 on a new SATA drive and keep the C and D drives w/XP system and backup as a complete backup soluition until I am confident the Win 7 upgrade is stable.

any suggestions would be extremely helpful...thx

Robert,
Your first step is to be able to get your Acronis Bootable CD to boot . If you have not checked your system BIOS settings, you may need to change the boot order to have the system boot to the CD drive first. Once you get the system booted to the CD, then you may be able to do as you describe. Is your "D" drive a separate physical drive, or is it a partition on the same physical drive as "C"? If your bootable CD is defective, you could download the Bootable ISO for your True Image version from your Acronis account and burn it to a new CD. If your 2012 bootable CD works, you can use it instead of the 2013 bootable CD, it can restore files created in 2013 without problems.