BillW50 said:
I also have the same
problem with my Samsung Story 1.5GB USB HDDs. As you can backup to
them all day long and no problems there. But when it comes to
restoring, it can't even see the drive.
*What* can't even see the drive?
FWIW, I have an older version of Acronis (9) and in order for me to get
the option to boot off a bootable CD to work without issues, I do
remember now that I needed to download the latest Bart PE Acronis Plugin
and create my own Bart PE rescue CD. Yes, I do recall that I had issues
with the factory-issued Acronis rescue CD. It was so long ago, so
unfortunately I can't remember details. But ever since I created the
Bart PE CD, I have never had an issue restoring image archives.
That makes Acronis True Image
totally useless. I tried to restore an image just last week with
Acronis True Image. Even copied the backup from the USB to the
internal drive. That was a bad idea. As Acronis True Image put it all
into a folder called Drive C on restore.
I don't follow. You don't need Acronis to copy image archive files. My
archive files have the .tib extension. I store them wherever I want. I
can copy them, too, if I want. I can place them in any folder I want. I
do it (with Windows Explorer), not Acronis.
What internal drive? A second internal hard drive in a desktop PC? That
would work. But I thought you were talking about a laptop hard drive.
Storing it in the laptop's only hard drive doesn't make any sense to me.
Got so sick and tired of Acronis True Image that I switched to
something that actually works, called Paragon Drive Backup. Although
PDB CD doesn't work with my four EeePC netbooks with 7 inch screens.
And no an external monitor won't show anything with this CD either.
So there I use Norton Ghost.
At least you're covering yourself; that is what's really important.