Acronis True image

[jai6638]

hey.. i made a disk image ( of 1.5 gig ) with acronis true image and i stored it in the "acronis secure zone" .. my question is.: if i reinstall my OS ( by using recovery cds of toshiba ) will the secure zone go away or will it stil remain??


cheers

 

[Relayer]

I'm betting the restore disc will wipe it out. Most restore CD's do a complete "clone" type procedure killing any partitions.

 

[ShellGuy]

i would agree with that you should burn it to DVD or put it on an external drive...

Will

 

[jai6638]

well it saved it to this "acronis secure zone".... how do i burn it to dvd from that "secure zone"?


thanks

 

[corkyg]

You can always do what I do. I have two desktops and a notebook, and have duplicate drives for all of them. I use Acronis TrueImage7 (Just got an update patch, BTW) to clone them - i.e., the complete drive. Then disconnect them. I clone them all about every 10 days two two weeks, or whenever significant changes occur.

It's a pretty simple process using the bootable CD created by TI7 To restore, I simply change drives by turning one off and the other on (Switched mobile racks.)

 

[jai6638]

does the MIGRATE EASY part of the program do the same thing?? whats the difference?? would u know??

 

[jmalm]

In my previous experience with recovery cd's (in high school i worked as a Staples Tech) the recovery CDs actually do some partitioning of the drives. So my thinking would be that, yes the image could get lost.

 

[jai6638]

i see.. so i could sue mIGRATE easy and burn the image to a dvd ( it wont fit to a cd?? ) and then when i insert the new hdd all i have to do is to put the cd in the drive and it will boot from it ?? and then there will be an optino to format the hdd within the setup itself?

but, since the cd-dvd/rom drivers arent installed how will it boot from the cd on the new unformatted hdd ( stupid question but... )

cool thanks..

 

[corkyg]

I never understand why people don't figure out that the cheapest and fastest and most accurate backup is a duplicate drive. Forget about imaging and restoring. That is clumsy and time consuming.