hard drive backup

[Guest]

All very well, but as my new WD drive is connected by usb it just comes out
as a generic drive so having downloaded the 260 meg odd WD version of
Acronis it just gets half way through installing before deciding I don't
have any WD products and leaving me with 260meg odd of rubbish to get rid of
somehow!

S

 

[Guest]

How do you get the manufacturer to know you are using one of their drives
when it is connected by usb and only shows as a generic volume with no
manufacturer or device ID?

I downloaded WD's Acronis version but it won't install because it cannot see
any WD devices...

S

 

[Eddie]

http://help.lockergnome.com/general/Acronis-True-Image-Personal-Free--ftopict54543.html

The above isnt the site I got mine from, but it seems its available
there with a bit of fiddling around. Read the last post, seems to be
the easiest.

Ed

 

[SC Tom]

If you have a WD external drive, hook it up first, then install the
software. That's what I did on my notebook with the Hitachi drive.
After you've installed it, use the option to create a boot CD. Once that's
created, you can boot from it on any system and create an image as long as,
a) there's an external WD drive connected, or b) there's an internal WD
drive. I like using the CD to create the image since it is done without
being within Windows- no OS changes are being made while the image is being
created like there would be from within the OS. I can create and verify a
120GB image in about 90 minutes that way.