Re: Acronis True Image Boot Disk

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I don't know if the TRIAL version will let you do that. Did you check over
at the Acronis site? It might tell ya, unless someone else here knows.

I think if you read most of the comments about True Image, you'll find it is
a GREAT addition to have, and I routinely use it for my backups and
restores, without incident. So, I'd bite the bullet and just buy it. (I
never bothered with a trial edition).

Also BTW, if you purchase Acronis True Image 11 in the box, it already comes
on a boot CD, which is nice.


JS wrote:
Don't disagree and may do just that as I have
a second drive I can install.

But what I really need to know is if True Image (trial version)
can create a restore CD in case I can no longer boot to Windows.

With Ghost I can insert the recovery CD, boot to a small but usable
menu, pick from a list of image files I have created and restore.

Once the restore is complete I can then boot to Windows as it was
when I create the image file.

JS

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JS wrote:
Thanks for your reply, it's my fault that I didn't make my request
clear.

Want I want to do is to install True Image on the drive partition (C:)
that
contains Windows XP SP2. Create an image file of that partition and have
it
stored/created either on the second partition of the same hard drive or
a
second hard drive.

It would be a lot better (and simpler) to store the image on the second
hard drive. If you don't do that, you have to use the so called Secure
Zone (on the boot drive), which is 1) a bit of a hassle, and 2) has some
limitations.

Since I'm doing some extreme tests involving Windows and SP3 and if in a
worse case scenario Windows (the C: partition) is no longer bootable, I
would like to use a bootable CD of True Image (Ghost calls it a recovery
CD)
so that I can restore the C: partition using the image backup file that
is
located on another partition or drive.

I have done this a number of times using Ghost but this time I'd like to
see
just how good True Image is.

JS

"Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"- Bobb -" wrote
"JS" <@> wrote:
I plan to do some testing which will require a baseline (clean
install
of
Windows XP with SP2) image that I can restore to an newly formatted
partition multiple times. I have Norton Ghost but thought I'd try
True
Image (the 15 day free trial version).

Question is, does the trial version allow you to create a True Image
boot CD than can be used to restore a partition from a baseline image
file stored on another partition. If the trial version does have this
feature any tips on creating the boot CD would be helpful.

JS



I beta tested Version 11 (which was free then) and I did just that.
Checking their website and it shows no difference between 'bought' vs
'trial' edition - just length of license.
look at chapter 6 here:
http://us1.download.acronis.com/pdf/TrueImage11_ug.en.pdf

If you'd like to ask them before downloading, they were helpful to me
last year:
http://www.acronis.com/company/contacts/request/index.html?t=1


I believe the OP wants to make a bootable CD, that is, you
put the CD that contains the backup image in the optical drive slot,
and it loads the image itself. He doesn't want to have to load the
Acronis True Image CD first or have it permanently installed on his
system.

*TimDaniels*


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