True Image 10

[Dean-MN]

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I've been wondering that myself. I got it, based on recommendations here
and
elsewhere, and it works great at making backups. But I don't have the
nerve
or scrap my drive (or buy a new one) to try out a restore. I've tried
restoring individual files, and that works great.

In checking out NewEgg.com's reviews, most were glowing, but there were
maybe a half dozen people that said it worked great until they had to
restore a drive, and then it wouldn't. It would be nice to hear that
others
have restored drives successfully, after a failure.

Hi, I and a few others have encountered problems with the True Image 10
Recovery CD. My Dell Dimension E521 with a 256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE
video card will boot using the Acronis Rescue Disk the display is black.
The video card needs to be pulled and the onboard video will then be active.
After I figured that out, I attempted a restore. It took 21 hours to
restore a 17GB backup. Yes, 21 hours. It seems there's a conflict with
certain hardware configurations between Windows and the Linux that Acronis
uses. See this thread on the forum from Acronis' Web site.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=162424&highlight=Guide+BartPE
There are detailed instructions on how to make a rescue disk based on
Windows XP. The process is tedious but it works. Using BartPE the same 17GB
restore takes eight minutes. Good luck, Dean

 

[Richard Urban]

I ran across this problem on a Toshiba laptop.

Believe it, or not, the fix was to create a recovery DVD - not a CD. After
that, it worked fine. It must have been something in the bios of the laptop
as other bootable CD's were, in fact, bootable.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Leo]

Surely you jest. The Linux Lizards posting here have assured us that Linux
never causes problems.

 

[Bret Butcher]

Considering True Image 10 for Vista Home computer. Any isses I should be
aware of?
Mark

I haven't run into any issues. One of the things I really
liked about true image is the rescue disk builder. It creates
a bootable CD with all my required RAID/USB drivers so I can
do a complete restore from a backup image without installing
windows. I used to use Ghost but found the emergency boot
disk driver support lacking...

 

[Rock]

I've been wondering that myself. I got it, based on recommendations here
and
elsewhere, and it works great at making backups. But I don't have the
nerve
or scrap my drive (or buy a new one) to try out a restore. I've tried
restoring individual files, and that works great.

In checking out NewEgg.com's reviews, most were glowing, but there were
maybe a half dozen people that said it worked great until they had to
restore a drive, and then it wouldn't. It would be nice to hear that
others
have restored drives successfully, after a failure.

I've tested it for a restore. It worked fine. So did restoring an image
made with Complete PC Backup in Vista Ultimate.

Whatever the backup solution that's employed it needs to be tested in a real
world environment. No matter what others say about a program, unless you
test it you can't have confidence in it.

Use another drive to restore the image to. If you want economy, after the
testing stick that drive in an external drive enclosure and use it for
backup.

 

[Iuvenalis]

I've tested it for a restore. It worked fine. So did restoring an image
made with Complete PC Backup in Vista Ultimate.

Whatever the backup solution that's employed it needs to be tested in a
real world environment. No matter what others say about a program, unless
you test it you can't have confidence in it.

Use another drive to restore the image to. If you want economy, after the
testing stick that drive in an external drive enclosure and use it for
backup.

I actually find the restore time of the backup created by Complete PC Backup
to be much quicker than Acronis.
I like Acronis but it's restore times are twice as long as the built in
Vista backup on my machine.
Creating the images is very fast in both.

 

[Leaving Norton-Symantec for Good]

Mark:

Did your laptop also have the hidden hard drive restore partition like Sony
and many of the others are shipping now - that does you no good if the hard
drive dies first? If so, did it back up and restore the hidden partition?
I have also seen the many problems posted on the Acronis site .....

As a 52 year old electrical engineer I purchased my first laptop - a Sony
(VAIO AR-320E) a few weeks ago ... And I will never specify or buy any of
their computer products again.

Once I upgraded from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate - using the link
that Sony provided ..... Sony told me they wouldn't support the product
anymore.

I don't know about you, but having been computing since the age of 18 I
don't view this as much of an OS upgrade .... But I can assure you the
networks and organiganizations I support daily are going to hear of Sony's
policy. Unofortunately it seems to be much more difficult to build a laptop
than a desktop - and when I am traveling restoration on the road is crucial.
Sony makes this all but impossible - even trying to get into their machines
seems to be made deliberately complicated.

In fairness, I do love the Sony screen brightness - but in retrospect I
would probably buy a Dell.

I paid a lot more for the Sony at Best Buy because it "appeared" tp come
with a lot of software .... also deceptive. Once you get it home you find
out much of it is "trial ware" and almos impossible to get off the machine.

Jim

 

[...winston]

If you're going to pay the extra $ for a Sony, consider Micron. No junk, U.S. based tech support(Idaho), a willingness to help all customers, a better warranty, less proprietary solutions, and more user customizable and obviously friendly.
..winston

: Mark:
:
: Did your laptop also have the hidden hard drive restore partition like Sony
: and many of the others are shipping now - that does you no good if the hard
: drive dies first? If so, did it back up and restore the hidden partition?
: I have also seen the many problems posted on the Acronis site .....
:
: As a 52 year old electrical engineer I purchased my first laptop - a Sony
: (VAIO AR-320E) a few weeks ago ... And I will never specify or buy any of
: their computer products again.
:
: Once I upgraded from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate - using the link
: that Sony provided ..... Sony told me they wouldn't support the product
: anymore.
:
: I don't know about you, but having been computing since the age of 18 I
: don't view this as much of an OS upgrade .... But I can assure you the
: networks and organiganizations I support daily are going to hear of Sony's
: policy. Unofortunately it seems to be much more difficult to build a laptop
: than a desktop - and when I am traveling restoration on the road is crucial.
: Sony makes this all but impossible - even trying to get into their machines
: seems to be made deliberately complicated.
:
: In fairness, I do love the Sony screen brightness - but in retrospect I
: would probably buy a Dell.
:
: I paid a lot more for the Sony at Best Buy because it "appeared" tp come
: with a lot of software .... also deceptive. Once you get it home you find
: out much of it is "trial ware" and almos impossible to get off the machine.
:
: Jim

 

[Guest]

Replying to my own post
Got it to work -- I have done a full restore of C: on a WinVista laptop
using True Image 10.
When booting from the Rescue CD, there is a choice for 'safe' or 'full'. At
this point, press F11 to add command-line options: noapic nolapic -- must
have these to get True Image to run on this laptop (HP dv9000z).
Acronis support told me about F11 during email dialog. Every late-nite
email was answered promptly by the next morning, not auto-answer but a real
answer from a real person.