Acronis -backup or clone disk

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TrueImage ver 9 is not compatible with Vista, as per Acronis.

TrueImage HOME Edition 10.0 is.

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Richard Urban
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Richard Urban said:
TrueImage ver 9 is not compatible with Vista, as per Acronis.

TrueImage HOME Edition 10.0 is.
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Seems strange, since I would be restoring XP not vista.
 
Hi Pete,

It is not that simple, just to buy Acronis. The latest version of
Acronis works with Vista not version 9. Get it from the Website.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/sales/online/ $49.90

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E1681528708SF $31.90

Acronis 1528708SF True Image 10 Home Downloadable Software - Retail $31.90

Not only do you need Backup Software you also need another Hard Drive
partition to place the backup being created or either a DVD Recorder or
CD-RW Recorder, with a lot of CD-RW to contain the images.
 
I think we all missed the "before installing vista", I would clone disk if
you have a second hard drive. The thing about a backup is that you are using
a version of Acronis that you would not be able to use once you do install
Vista rendering your backup useless. If you just bought ver 9 try to return
it for Home 10.
 
Just to correct, you could still restore from a boot disk but you lose all
the other functions of Acronis that you would have running it within the OS.
 
Michael D said:
Just to correct, you could still restore from a boot disk but you lose all
the other functions of Acronis that you would have running it within the
OS.
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Thanks to all.
-Pete
 
Richard Urban said:
TrueImage ver 9 is not compatible with Vista, as per Acronis.

TrueImage HOME Edition 10.0 is.
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As far as I can tell, TrueImage v9 Workstation actually works fine in Vista.
I think that what makes v10 Home 'Vista compatible' is because it is the
only version yet released that knows where to look for saving documents with
the wizard.

ss.
 
Have you actually tried to restore a Vista image with TI9, either from
within Vista or from booting from the recovery CD? I have, and it fails each
time. I always had to perform a repair with the Vista DVD after the fact.

With TI-10 I can start TI from within Vista and recover my system partition.
At the end TI will tell you that you have to reboot to continue. After the
recovery completes, the system automatically reboots and Vista starts
without any further ado. Simple and safe. Recovery from the boot CD works
just as well.

This does not happen with TI-9

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Richard Urban
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As you are obviously using Windows XP and am preparing to install Vista
either as a clean install or upgrade on the original XP hard drive/partition
then a clone would be more appropriate.


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Richard Urban said:
Have you actually tried to restore a Vista image with TI9, either from
within Vista or from booting from the recovery CD? I have, and it fails
each time. I always had to perform a repair with the Vista DVD after the
fact.

With TI-10 I can start TI from within Vista and recover my system
partition. At the end TI will tell you that you have to reboot to
continue. After the recovery completes, the system automatically reboots
and Vista starts without any further ado. Simple and safe. Recovery from
the boot CD works just as well.

This does not happen with TI-9
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I have only backed up files so far, not OS, and haven't needed to restore,
and also, automated through network onto a server. The only problem I have
found when using it, was the documents part in the wizard, but I don't use
that anyway.

I do get an error when backing up onto another disk on the same machine, but
I get the same error with v10 Home (it can't back up through network), so I
think it has something to do with my RAID setup.

Now that you have mentioned these errors, I'll check if my data backups are
okay.

Cheers

ss.
 
OK, so I bought Acronis 9.
Now, do I do a backup or clone disk before installing Vista?
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Check the program help files, check on the Acronis site for help docs, post
to an Acronis newsgroup. This isn't a Vista OS question.
 
TRUEIMAGE VERSION 10 WILL NOT PRODUCE A BOOTABLE CLONE OF THE WINDOWS VISTA
BOOT DISK.
IT COPIES THE DISK SUCCESSFULLY HOWEVER IT WILL NOT BOOT FROM THE CLONE.
IT ERRORS WITH
WINLOAD EXE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT.
ACRONIS WON'T RESPOND TO THIS PROBLEM.
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE TRIAL VERSION OF TRUEIMAGE 10 FOR FREE AND
AND TRY THE CLONE FOR YOURSELF.
 
Oooops!!!!!!!!!!! I caught this post just before trying the Restore function
in the V10 demo.

Did you manage to fix it from the Vista Install CD?
 
Oooops!!!!!!!!!!! I caught this post just before trying the Restore function
in the V10 demo.

Did you manage to fix it from theVistaInstall CD?







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I don't have a CD since I installed from an XP upgrade. I haven't
figured out how to fix it yet. Any advice would be appreciated.
 
Don't know what Gene is on about. You install TI10 and make a boot CD and it
boots off that in order to restore.
 
Gene and I tried to clone a disk. A clone should boot just like the
original. In our case the clone does not boot. I sent Acronis an
email 24 hours ago. No response. I called today and they told me to
leave a message. Very discouraging.
 
I never did say Acronis had good feedback. I have written to them, more than
once, about the fact that you cannot set limits on the backups even though
the program says you can. It ignores them and fills your disk with backups.

However, do an image of one disk and put it on the other and it works.

The reasons yours may not boot depends on what you are doing. Eg, are you
putting a clone on another machine entirely? In any case, I always use image
backup and restore and never had a problem. Used it to move to a larger
drive and the only thing it did wrong was to have the larger drive show up
as the same size as the original, which was easily fixed.
 
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