Re: Acronis True Image 10, false labelling on the box! Vista cloning in a dual boot situation, not as easy as boot.ini


"Noncompliant" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Read all your replies to the thread to this date/time.
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| The only advantage you have is using Acronis to image external of XP vs
| using DI 7.0 within XP only. Have same OSes, and same DI 7.0 and DI 2002 to
| work with. Don't see any reason to use anything else.
|
| Misleading box details. Never go by that, ever, for explicit/correct
| information regarding the product. Almost any imaging program supports
| backing up a FAT16 or FAT32 partition with msdos/windows 3.x/95/98/98SE/ME
| residing therein. Whether it works within one of those environments is
| another issue. Whether is works within the same environment and backs up
| the boot partition is another issue as well.
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| Noncompliant
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| For corporate legal advice regarding the EULA for XP, check with a lawyer
| qualified in corporate law.

Well, there are also incremental backups, and differential backups available
with Acronis. But I don't know how to set them up yet. I've got to read the
Acrois forums to do more research. They have a rapid rate of postings on a daily
basis.

Maybe I'll just save this Acronis until I get a new computer for myself, but I
hear there are problems backing up dual-booted XP & Vista OS machines, thanks to
a new Vista design to the boot files.

http://www.multibooters.co.uk/cloning.html

Cloning Vista

The change in Vista from the boot.ini to the BCD file has meant that getting a
clone to boot from its new location has caused some problems. With boot.ini you
just had to change a few numbers in a text editor to make it point to the new
partition number. The BCD is not so easy to edit and requires you to create a
new partition GUID number (Globally Unique Identifier). I have not yet seen a
way or figured out how to manually make this change in the BCD of a clone or
independent Vista install. It can however be done with the auto repair feature
from the Vista DVD if the conditions are right. See alternative method below.

I have however come across a BCD edit that seems to essentially turn off
bootmgr's dependence on the GUID number, partition offset and MBR Disk Signature
and direct bootmgr to just boot the partition that it is itself on. A Vista
clone will then happily boot from any partition or hard drive. Please note that
making this change to the BCD file is of course only desirable if you are not
using the Windows bootmanager. If you don?t know for sure that you are not, then
don?t mess with the BCD file.

This is not as far as I?m aware a Microsoft approved modification, so it is
still experimental and there may indeed be issues involved that I have not yet
come across, so I would not suggest this for a mission critical machine just
yet. If you have been using or testing this modification to the BCD then please
give me some feedback on whether you have or have not seen any issues. So far I?
ve had no problems with cloning to various hard drives and to both primary and
logical partitions. In all cases Vista boots without complaint and I have seen
no real issues yet on two test machines, certainly no signs that two installs
are becoming cross-linked. The one anomaly I have come across is that when an
independent install of Vista is running from a second or higher hard drive the
Disk Management utility will sometimes number the drives incorrectly. I have not
explored the variables yet that might have been responsible for this. Perhaps
something to do with drive configuration of IDE and SATA, or maybe the
bootmanager I was using at the time.

more of this at the link above...


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