Acronis True Image Question

[Anonymous]

I am using Acronis True Image version 8.(Build 826).

I have a Dell Dimension 8400 running Windows XP Pro.

Why can't I see what is on my Recovery CD when I click on the CD ROM
icon in File Explorer?

All I get is a continuous hourglass figure that never ends unless I
pull the CD ROM out of the machine.

How in the @#5#$^ am I supposed to check to see if the necessary files
actually were copied to the CD?

I did place the CD first in the boot order in the bios.

I have tried starting my machine with the Recovery disc in the machine.
All I get is a slow loading Windows XP. Nothing indicates whether the
Recovery disc is working or not.


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[bxb7668]

If Harry's suggestion doesn't work, I'd recommend that you go to the
Acronis forums and post your issue there. I've always gotten good
response from them. The TI forum is at:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65

Brian Bygland

When you create a Boot CD with TI and open it in an Explorer widow
you should be able to see a directory called Recovery Manger which
contains several files. You can not run any of these from the
Windows GUI .

What you are seeing is unusual behaviour. It sounds like the boot cd
was damaged. Try recreating it. Or have you checked for an updated
build of True Image? I believe that TI 8 is up to build 937 and can
be downloaded from the Acronis site provided you are registered. The
updated version might create a working Boot CD for you.


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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

I am using Acronis True Image version 8.(Build 826).

I have a Dell Dimension 8400 running Windows XP Pro.

Why can't I see what is on my Recovery CD when I click on the CD
ROM
icon in File Explorer?

All I get is a continuous hourglass figure that never ends unless I
pull the CD ROM out of the machine.

How in the @#5#$^ am I supposed to check to see if the necessary
files
actually were copied to the CD?

I did place the CD first in the boot order in the bios.

I have tried starting my machine with the Recovery disc in the
machine.
All I get is a slow loading Windows XP. Nothing indicates whether
the
Recovery disc is working or not.


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[Anonymous]

When you create a Boot CD with TI and open it in an Explorer widow you
should be able to see a directory called Recovery Manger which contains
several files. You can not run any of these from the Windows GUI .

What you are seeing is unusual behaviour. It sounds like the boot cd was
damaged. Try recreating it. Or have you checked for an updated build of True
Image? I believe that TI 8 is up to build 937 and can be downloaded from the
Acronis site provided you are registered. The updated version might create a
working Boot CD for you.

It was all due to 2 consecutive bad CD-ROMS (Memorex) from my batch of
new ones.

I made another Recovery CD and it worked just fine. I made a backup of
that one, too.

I did use them to boot into Acronis. It worked.

Problem solved.

I just didn't know what I should have seen or not. I also wasn't sure
if the Recovery disc was supposed to boot if I had a good Windows OS
working.

Thanks to all who answered.


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[Bob Harris]

TI8 uses a LINUX environment to boot, so you won't see too much from
windows, but you certainly should see a directory structure with some files,
such as the following at the root of your CD drive (mine is P:

Directory of P:\

11/13/2005 04:07 PM <DIR> Recovery Manager
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 5,802 readme.txt
1 File(s) 5,802 bytes
1 Dir(s) 0 bytes free

If you go inside of the Recovery Manager directory, you should see something
like:

Directory of P:\Recovery Manager

11/13/2005 04:07 PM <DIR> .
11/13/2005 04:07 PM <DIR> ..
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 1,095,216 bootmenu.exe
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 22,528 bootwiz.sys
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 198 f11.cfg
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 649,275 kernel.dat
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 4,850 mouse.com
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 8,808,476 ramdisk.dat
6 File(s) 10,580,543 bytes
2 Dir(s) 0 bytes free

However, the best way to be sure that you have a good recovery CD is to
insert the CD and reboot the PC. Assuming that the PC is set to boot from
CD before hard drive, the TI logo should soon appear. The interface will
look a lot like the interface you see for TI8 within windows, but with fewer
options. It is safe to explore a few steps down the "create image" or the
"restore image" paths. Be sure that TI8 displays all hard drives. This
test is particularly important if you have serial ATA hard drives, since
early version of TI8 did not support all SATA drives. If you can "see" the
drive(s), then the odds of being able to restore a valid image are near
100%. If you can not see the hard drive(s), then you need to get a later
build of TI8. Note that you can safely cancel the create/restore operation
until after it asks if you want to procede with the operation and you click
yes.

As for where you store the image, or set of image files, I prefer an
external USB hard drive, because it is fast. Infrequently, I copy the
images to DVDs. One could argue that CDs or DVDs are safer, since they are
imune to magnetic fields or power surges. But, in practice, many people
have had problems with CDs or DVDs. If you use optical media for the
images, be sure to verify them. TI8 has an option to verify images, but
does not do that by default.

Finally, the latest version of TI8 is build 937. I have personally had good
luck with that, although several earlier build also worked on my PC.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

sorry for my time being off by 12 hours. I've fixed it.

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

When you create a Boot CD with TI and open it in an Explorer widow you
should be able to see a directory called Recovery Manger which contains
several files. You can not run any of these from the Windows GUI .

What you are seeing is unusual behaviour. It sounds like the boot cd was
damaged. Try recreating it. Or have you checked for an updated build of
True Image? I believe that TI 8 is up to build 937 and can be downloaded
from the Acronis site provided you are registered. The updated version
might create a working Boot CD for you.


--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

I am using Acronis True Image version 8.(Build 826).

I have a Dell Dimension 8400 running Windows XP Pro.

Why can't I see what is on my Recovery CD when I click on the CD ROM
icon in File Explorer?

All I get is a continuous hourglass figure that never ends unless I
pull the CD ROM out of the machine.

How in the @#5#$^ am I supposed to check to see if the necessary files
actually were copied to the CD?

I did place the CD first in the boot order in the bios.

I have tried starting my machine with the Recovery disc in the machine.
All I get is a slow loading Windows XP. Nothing indicates whether the
Recovery disc is working or not.


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[Harry Ohrn]

When you create a Boot CD with TI and open it in an Explorer widow you
should be able to see a directory called Recovery Manger which contains
several files. You can not run any of these from the Windows GUI .

What you are seeing is unusual behaviour. It sounds like the boot cd was
damaged. Try recreating it. Or have you checked for an updated build of True
Image? I believe that TI 8 is up to build 937 and can be downloaded from the
Acronis site provided you are registered. The updated version might create a
working Boot CD for you.

 

[Stan Brown]

26 Apr 2006 18:17:48 -0000 from Anonymous

Why can't I see what is on my Recovery CD when I click on the CD ROM
icon in File Explorer?

All I get is a continuous hourglass figure that never ends unless I
pull the CD ROM out of the machine.

That tells you that Windows can't read it. Either it was badly
written by the software (unlikely) or you've got a hardware problem,
or it was a bad disk.

I'd try one more disk, preferably of a different brand.Make sure to
use CD-R rather than CD-RW. CD-Rs are cheap, and for a backup you
_want_ something that can't be erased.