Trueimage hassles

[Martin]

Hi,
Could a clever person help me with a problem, please?
I want to use Acronis TrueImage to back up my c drive to another HD.
Part of the process involves preparing a bootable CD to enable access
to the c drive. The problem is that the machine won't boot from the
cd. I get a splash screen then nothing else. The cd does its thing on
another computer so it can't be at fault. Oddly the machine in
question does boot from a cd prepared from a trial version of
TrueImage, but since it is crippled I can't use it. Furthermore the
machine also refuses to reboot from within Windows running TrueImage,
with the same symptoms.
I have an A7N8X motherboard with 1GB memory and an Athlon 26+
processor. No overclocking. I suspect that some bios setting may cure
the problem but I can't even guess what. Can you help? Needless to say
Acronis is deafening in their silence.
TIA,
Martin

 

[Ghostrider]

Hi,
Could a clever person help me with a problem, please?
I want to use Acronis TrueImage to back up my c drive to another HD.
Part of the process involves preparing a bootable CD to enable access
to the c drive. The problem is that the machine won't boot from the
cd. I get a splash screen then nothing else. The cd does its thing on
another computer so it can't be at fault. Oddly the machine in
question does boot from a cd prepared from a trial version of
TrueImage, but since it is crippled I can't use it. Furthermore the
machine also refuses to reboot from within Windows running TrueImage,
with the same symptoms.
I have an A7N8X motherboard with 1GB memory and an Athlon 26+
processor. No overclocking. I suspect that some bios setting may cure
the problem but I can't even guess what. Can you help? Needless to say
Acronis is deafening in their silence.
TIA,
Martin

Other than Ghost (and now that DriveImage has been bought by
Symantec), TrueImage would be a good alternative. There is an
option to make bootable floppy diskettes that will recover the
image files made from TrueImage. But, as with any disk image
utility, always insure that it is possible to recover from the
media (i.e., HD, CD-R, etc.) in which the image has been stored.
IOW, the computer, might not be able to boot to and/or use the
storage device in question. And rebooting from Windows is not an
option...must boot from the system.