Re: PC Complete Restore failed to restore

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Restoring with TI you can select the partition, you can also select to have
the restore utilise the whole disk size
(ie origonal disk 80gb, new disk 250gb restore/ clone to use whole 250gb)

"churin" <churin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chad Harris wrote:


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Although I trust TrueImage 100% to image/restore my system partition I
refuse to allow it to touch my data.

For data I want a 1-1 backup (a COPY) of the original file - without any
compression. I will never again be encumbered with an inaccessible
backup due to faulty proprietary software. I use to always use
BackupExe. But then they came out with a new version that could not
access the backups created by the prior version.

Microsoft did much the same thing with the various backup programs that
were included in Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 to Windows 98 to Windows
2000 etc. What a mess! You would install a new operating system and,
just when you needed the backups the most, you would find that the
information was not attainable. You would have to mount the backup in a
computer that still had the older version of the backup program and
extract the files to a folder. Then you would COPY the folder to
removable media and install the folder under the new operating system.

A quality solution - NOT!

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

AMEN. Very well put Richard. I think John Barnes said much the same
thing a couple weeks ago and I couldn't agree more about the risks of
compressing data. I wish they didn't exist, but they do.

CH
Chad and Richard:
Thanks for the responses.
I used to use Drive Image but recently Ghost 14 or Acronis TI 2009. But
the VHD image appears that it can be used a la such third party
softwares. Only differene between restoring VHD and sv2i(Ghost) or
tib(TrueImage) is that restore partition can not be specified for VHD.
Then to which partition is VHD restored? My experience is that if there
are multiple partitions, VHD is restored to one of the primary partitions
which is active.
Anyway my trial did not work as detailed in my original post. Could anyone
point out what did I do wrong?


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