OK, now that brings up a few further questions: by "third-party software"
required, are you talking about that being required to burn an image
directly to a DVD? As I said, I have Nero installed, it can burn data DVDs,
would that suffice? I looked at the documentation (available on the website
as PDF), and it mentions that requirement, but it is not exactly clear about
doing it to a DVD.
I assume I could make an image to my HDD first, and then use the Nero app to
transfer that image to a bootable DVD, but is there some other means in the
product for doing this automatically or more directly to the DVD without the
HDD involved? I did not really see much stated about this particular
function, although I see it does explain things in the general process quite
well.
Various sections of the manual state as follows:
". 2.1.3 Supported storage media
Hard disk drives . Networked storage devices . CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW*
.. ZIP®, Jaz® and other removable media . P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394
(Firewire) and USB 1.0 / 2.0 drives, PC card storage devices. * - requires
third-party DVD recording software to be installed. . floppy disk drive or
CD-RW drive for bootable media creation....
............
Sizeable archives can be split into several files that together make the
original archive. A single archive can also be split for burning to
removable media. The default setting – Automatic. With this setting, Acronis
True Image Home will act as follows. When backing up to the hard disk: If
the selected disk has enough space and its file system allows the estimated
file size, the program will create a single archive file. If the storage
disk has enough space, but its file system does not allow the estimated file
size, Acronis True Image Home will automatically split the image into
several files. ... FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have a 4 GB file size limit.
At the same time, the existing hard drives capacity may reach as much as
160GB. Therefore, an archive file might easily exceed this limit, if you are
going to back up the entire disk. If you do not have enough space to store
the image on your hard disk, the program will warn you and wait for your
decision as to how you plan to fix the problem. You can try to free some
additional space and continue or click Back and select another disk.
When backing up to a diskette, CD-R/RW, DVD-RW or DVD+R/RW: Acronis True
Image Home will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous one is full.
Alternatively, you can select Fixed size and enter the desired file size or
select it from the drop-down list. The archive will then be split into
multiple files of the specified size. That comes in handy when backing up to
a hard disk with a view to burning the archive to CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW or
DVD+R/RW later on. Creating images directly on CD-R/RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R/RW
might take considerably more time then it would on a hard disk....."
I assume you would select that Fixed Size option to make the archive for
burning to a DVD later on, but the manual seems to indicate that one can
directly burn to a DVD and the app will warn when to insert another DVD
because the current one is full, or something like that. Is that what
happens, if so how does that involve third-party software doing the burning
of the DVD? If it just makes the fixed-size files, that would be
sufficient, I know how to burn them to a DVD, but is that the exact way it
does it, to your knowledge?
Also, does this software require a separate partition for that Security Zone
it sets up, or can that zone be part of the same single-partition C drive?
Currently I only have the single non-partitioned HDD.
Appreciate this further explanatory help if you would be so kind, before I
invest in this product. It is a very modest price, but I do not want to buy
something I find I cannot use easily unless I am on a network. In my
business, every penny counts....
