Re: How to make a cloned disk boot?

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Hi Bo,

I'm sure your using similar hardware to this see links below..
http://www.bay-wolf.com/hddadapter.htm
http://www.xpcgear.com/3slusb20exat.html
Another option might be using a network hub to connect a desktop to your
laptops, see what others are saying & doing..
http://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+connect+a+laptop+to+as+desktop+computer

So, you chose automatic, ok that's why it is taking longer...
More than likely there is a verification or surface scan, sector to sector
process that is part of the automatic setting.. With file system errors, you
may not have had much choice in the matter, even in manual mode..

As far as your thoughts on compression your right about the image file, but
I don't think you understand that restoring your computer from the Image file
will yield the same result, restoing the users complete system and data...

Don't take me the wrong way, cloning will work but can take longer
especially in (slow but sure) automatic mode, though it should do it all
directly with less user attention.. So, go play a round of golf for 5 hours
or set it to run at night and in the morning it's done, ideally..

So, I take it it ATI ver 10 worked and all is well, better late than never,
right..?

The reason I like using the image file (.tib) method is that you stay in the
Windows GUI throughout the whole image creating & restoring process, ie.. no
booting into dos needed.. Plus, you should get more info on the process,
size, % time left, etc..

You might even pose your questions on speed and performance to the ATI users
forum for more incite on the How's, Why's & How Come's..
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/support/forum/

Best of luck and Happy Holiday's to you..
Cheers
j;-j

"Bo Berglund" wrote:

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:27:00 -0800, Jaymon
<Jaymon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Are you cloning or creating an image file (mybackup.tib)..?
Cloning the existing drive because it is is too small now...

What compression level are you using if any..?
Compression only makes sense for image files, bvut as I said we are
transferring the users data to new drives so they can continue
working. They have less that 1 Gb free space on a 40 Gb drive so they
need the new space.

Did you defrag HHD partitions/data before you
started the image file creation..?
Defragging is not possible due to the limited amount of free disk
space..

Have you read the instructions or online
FAQ's before you started..?
TrueImage was a last resort. We read the instructions on how to
proceed when getting a new larger drive for the PC. They have
instructions for this and we chose to go automatic. :-)


As I am typing this, I am imaging to a USB drive L , my CDEFJ partitions
34GB total data used, compression High, data after compression 18GB, total
time 1hr 6min, so go figure.. Using ATI ver 8, on an Intel boxed mobo
D845PESV w/ P4 2.4B cpu, PSU Antec TP430, w/2PNY 512mb PC2700 DDR 333mhz, FSB
533mhz, so nothing really fancy or beefed up here.. Home built by myself in
2/03

Well, I don't know about the specifics of the Compaq NC8000 laptops
except for the hard drives (40 Gb with less than 3% free space) and
RAM (1.5 Gb RAM on these laptops).
And we are cloning, not creating a backup image file. During cloning
TrueImage first locks the whole drive then reboots the machine into a
version of TI that is running off of the boot. Nothing else is running
and it goes on for 5 hours....

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/faq/clone-windows-to-hardware/
Perhaps your doing a sector by sector backup/ may be unnecessary, may take
longer..?
We selected to clone the old drive to the new from the GUI of TI. It
gave us the choice of going automatic so we did.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/faq/sector-by-sector-backup/
Cheers
j;-j


Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

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