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True Image verses Image For Windows

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Skyzoomer

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I've been using Acronis True Image 8 (TI8) to do my backups on my WinXP PC for years. But recently my PC will not show USB devices in "My Computer". The USB devices do show up in Disk Management and I can access them that way. I haven't been able to figure out why yet.

When I tried to do a backup to an external USB hard drive, TI8 does not show the external USB hard drive. Evidently, TI8 can only see what windows explorer sees.

I tried the demo version of TeraByte Unlimited's "Image For Windows" (IFW) and it found my external USB hard drive with no problem and I was able to do my backup.

I also discovered that the license for IFW allows use on up to 3 home use computers while (as far as I could find) TI-Home-2010 requires one license for each computer.

So I bought a copy of IFW. Just thought I'd share my experience in case it might help someone.
Sky
 
JimKiler said:
How can you "access" your USB drives in disk MGMT?
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Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management.

My external USB hard drive and my SanDisk universal card reader are listed if they are plugged in. Right click the device and click OPEN. The rest is identical to explorer.

Sky
 
why don't you just assign the drive a letter. and wait for it to mount?

that's how my windows servers behave. automounting could potentially lead to mapping over another drive/network address and crashorz you.

Symantec BESR 2010/Norton actually uses the drive volume name so you can have the drive as C: D: E: F: G: and it will know which one is right
 
Try assigning various drive letters to the USB device and see what happens.

I've seen this issue before - where it was not a drive letter issue. It was not on my own computer so I have no idea what could have caused it. I never did find a way to fix it.
 
well if a network drive (or other device) was assigned D: and your USB was assigned D: then the usb would trump.

if the usb drive was not assigned but first come first serve then it woudl take E: ... Z:

window server doesn't follow this policy at all.
 
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