What are the pros and cons for placing image on removable hard disk?

[lisen]

I use acronis to backup and recover the system and partitions, but sometimes
I found that the image has been corrupted in one of the partitions. Now I
placed the images on one dynamic hard disk. Acronis told me that I could not
recover these images unless I use the rescue bootable media.

and What are the pros and cons for placing images of backup on dynamic hard
disk?

 

[Juli]

When you say 'dynamic hard disk' do you mean external hard disk (connected
via USB or 1394 etc), or a Windows dynamic disk partition?

 

[Bill in Co.]

I use acronis to backup and recover the system and partitions, but
sometimes
I found that the image has been corrupted in one of the partitions.

You need to find out why.

Now I placed the images on one dynamic hard disk.

WHY would you do that? Isn't that a LOT less reliable?

Acronis told me that I could not
recover these images unless I use the rescue bootable media.

and What are the pros and cons for placing images of backup on dynamic
hard
disk?

I think you're asking for trouble (using any dynamic disk). (I'm assuming
here you are NOT talking about something like an external USB drive, but
really mean "dynamic").

 

[Juli]

If you do mean dymanic disk, it cannot be accessed if your XP (must be pro
version) is corrupted. So you'd better put your image on a basic disk.

 

[lisen]

yes. what I meant is external hard disk.
But the Acronis told me that I could use rescue media to get access to the
image.

 

[Bill in Co.]

I use Acronis TI all the time with a USB external hard drive, and without
problems. Your biggest problem is figuring out WHY your previous images
were corrupt. If they were corrupt on that hard drive, what make you think
it's going to be any different with an external drive, UNLESS your HD is
failing??? Makes no sense.

 

[lisen]

Thanks, Bill.

I don't know the exact reason. But I think that could be caused by the
previous disk distribution operation. I used Acronis Disk Suite to resize
some partitions.

And, another question is how you recovered the image with ACRONIS TI from
USB external hard disk? Did you use the backed up bootable rescue media to
boot the system first? ACRONIS poped up a window which said that "you should
use rescue media if you want to recover from the image that was stored on
external dynamic hard disk.

 

[Bill in Co.]

Thanks, Bill.

I don't know the exact reason. But I think that could be caused by the
previous disk distribution operation. I used Acronis Disk Suite to resize
some partitions.

And, another question is how you recovered the image with ACRONIS TI from
USB external hard disk? Did you use the backed up bootable rescue media to
boot the system first?

I've done it both ways: using the boot CD (which works if you can't boot up
into Windows), but more often in Windows (which is a bit easier - I run the
TI restore program (after launching TI), and it will reboot, when required,
and finish up down there (at the pre-windows level).

 

[Juli]

It doesn't matter where you put the Acronis backup image, as long as it
doesn't get corrupted and you, or Acronis, can access it when it is needed.
Wherever you put it, when you need to recover from it, you need to use
Acronis bootable media to boot up the system if your Windows cannot boot up.
If your Windows can boot up then you can access the image by running Acronis
from within Windows and don't need a rescue media.
I think you need to figure out why your previous images got corrupted,
because the image file gets corrupted, then other files can got corrupted
too.

 

[lisen]

Thanks. Juli
Because I placed that image on a separated partition, there was only that
one file on it. so I didn't know what was wrong. Could the re-size operation
cause that corruption?

 

[Juli]

It shouldn't but can be possiblely the cause. You can make a test by trying
resizing the partition again. Of course you keep a safe copy first.