Re: Acronis True Image Home v. 10 problem (doesn't work, avoid, in favor of Norton Ghost)

[M.I.5¾]

"raylopez99" <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Oct 22, 10:38 am, "BIC" <rol...@pointbtinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> you can say that for all BU software.........EVEN GHOST cos it f'k up my
>> father hard drive.
>
> Ghost has worked fine for me. TO each their own.
>
>>
>> when you buy a firework you don't know its gona work until YOU light it.
>>
>> Acronis is very good when used by a competent person.
>
> How would you know? Have you tried it to restore a boot drive image?
>

I have no idea if BIC has, but I have certainly restored a boot drive on
several occasions with success*. the most serious problem that I had was
restoring to a HP machine where the Trueimage boot disk wouldn't recognise
the HP mouse. This was but a minor inconvenience because the same result
could be achieved by using the keyboard 'ALT' key to select what was wanted.

What you do have to do is to do a trial restore to an old (or new) disk to
find out what snags if any you are going to meet and find a way round them.
Do this before you *have* to do a restore in anger when it usually far
harder to work around any snags.

*and on at least two occasions when the operating system corrupted.

 

[Lil' Dave]

"M.I.5¾" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "raylopez99" <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1193089496.522523.249380@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>> On Oct 22, 10:38 am, "BIC" <rol...@pointbtinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> you can say that for all BU software.........EVEN GHOST cos it f'k up my
>>> father hard drive.
>>
>> Ghost has worked fine for me. TO each their own.
>>
>>>
>>> when you buy a firework you don't know its gona work until YOU light it.
>>>
>>> Acronis is very good when used by a competent person.
>>
>> How would you know? Have you tried it to restore a boot drive image?
>>
>
> I have no idea if BIC has, but I have certainly restored a boot drive on
> several occasions with success*. the most serious problem that I had was
> restoring to a HP machine where the Trueimage boot disk wouldn't recognise
> the HP mouse. This was but a minor inconvenience because the same result
> could be achieved by using the keyboard 'ALT' key to select what was
> wanted.
>
> What you do have to do is to do a trial restore to an old (or new) disk to
> find out what snags if any you are going to meet and find a way round
> them. Do this before you *have* to do a restore in anger when it usually
> far harder to work around any snags.
>
> *and on at least two occasions when the operating system corrupted.
>

I used the free version from the Seagate site (Acronis True Image). The
cloning did 2 things, caused the source XP drive to become unbootable
(cannot find hal.dll it said), and the target was totally unusable.
Imaging, did nothing to the source, but the restored version was not
bootable in any fashion. Both hard drives identical (Seagate SATA IIs 250GB
jumpered SATA I). I attribute it the non-standard bios routine of mapping
SATA to ide bus (first motherboards with SATA did this).

DriveImage 7.0 has no problems with imaging such partitions in the XP
environment and restoring to original locations with DI 7.0 boot media. The
latter 2 versions of Ghost are sourced from this software.

My conclusions are that True Image has never addressed such a condition that
may exist I previously mentioned. That is, its mixed up between the ide and
SATA settings. DI, on the other hand, only sees ide. The SATA does its
mapping via bios and doen't matter if DI sees it or not.
Dave

 

[M.I.5¾]

"Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@virus.net> wrote in message
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> "M.I.5¾" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>
>> "raylopez99" <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1193089496.522523.249380@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>>> On Oct 22, 10:38 am, "BIC" <rol...@pointbtinternet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> you can say that for all BU software.........EVEN GHOST cos it f'k up
>>>> my
>>>> father hard drive.
>>>
>>> Ghost has worked fine for me. TO each their own.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> when you buy a firework you don't know its gona work until YOU light
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> Acronis is very good when used by a competent person.
>>>
>>> How would you know? Have you tried it to restore a boot drive image?
>>>
>>
>> I have no idea if BIC has, but I have certainly restored a boot drive on
>> several occasions with success*. the most serious problem that I had was
>> restoring to a HP machine where the Trueimage boot disk wouldn't
>> recognise the HP mouse. This was but a minor inconvenience because the
>> same result could be achieved by using the keyboard 'ALT' key to select
>> what was wanted.
>>
>> What you do have to do is to do a trial restore to an old (or new) disk
>> to find out what snags if any you are going to meet and find a way round
>> them. Do this before you *have* to do a restore in anger when it usually
>> far harder to work around any snags.
>>
>> *and on at least two occasions when the operating system corrupted.
>>
>
> I used the free version from the Seagate site (Acronis True Image). The
> cloning did 2 things, caused the source XP drive to become unbootable
> (cannot find hal.dll it said), and the target was totally unusable.
> Imaging, did nothing to the source, but the restored version was not
> bootable in any fashion. Both hard drives identical (Seagate SATA IIs
> 250GB jumpered SATA I). I attribute it the non-standard bios routine of
> mapping SATA to ide bus (first motherboards with SATA did this).
>
> DriveImage 7.0 has no problems with imaging such partitions in the XP
> environment and restoring to original locations with DI 7.0 boot media.
> The latter 2 versions of Ghost are sourced from this software.
>
> My conclusions are that True Image has never addressed such a condition
> that may exist I previously mentioned. That is, its mixed up between the
> ide and SATA settings. DI, on the other hand, only sees ide. The SATA
> does its mapping via bios and doen't matter if DI sees it or not.
> Dave

I have imaged and restored to a SATA drive without problem.