Re: Acronis True Iimage 10

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"Jim" <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f1u5i2$6ar$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What are the caveats here?

-Jim


Jim:
Not sure if I understand your question...

If you're asking whether a USB external HDD that contains a cloned copy
(created by a disk imaging program such as the Acronis one) of the boot
HDD the answer is "no"; the USBEHD is not (ordinarily) a bootable device
in an XP environment. Although some users have reported this or that
workaround to make an external USB HDD bootable. But we've never achieved
that capability.

But I don't understand your reference to "booting from a CD" in
connection with a "USB drive".
Anna

I now use Ghost, and run it from a floppy.

I generate an image and save it to a 2nd HD.

By booting Ghost from a floppy I can restore a saved image to a new drive
or a re-formatted partition if and when my Window$ becomes totally hosed.

Replace bootable floppy with bootable CD for something like your laptop
that doesn't have a floppy.

My question is that after booting Ghost from a floppy (CD) I am in a DOS
operating system with a simplistic GUI. Unlike a 2nd hd, from what I have
read there are only a select few external HD's that are accessible under
these conditions - no windows, just DOS.

I hope this makes things clear....

-Jim

Good grief, I don't see what is so nebulous about your question...

Some backup software has network and USB, firewire capabilities. I suggest
you either read help files that come with your software, check out their
website, or just suck it and see.

Boot into ghost with a USB drive connected and see if it is visible.

Some backup software has a problem with third party controllers, so for
example in Ghost 9, (IIRC), you need to include drivers when you boot with
the recovery CD the same way that Windows setup requires drivers to install
to a HDD attached to a third party controller.

HTH.


.

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