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I don't know because I don't trust it and never use it.
I use the Acronis boot option to do all my imaging from Linux, or whatever they are using as their kernal. I've restored several times from my "Acronis Secure Zone" without issues. -Larry "Peter" > wrote in message .uk... > In article .com>, > says... > I know people are mentioning good things about True Image, but I > wondered if anyone here had actually managed to re-install from an image > that was created of an O/S that was running at the time. What I mean > is, I have a copy of True Image 8.0 and have a dual boot system which > has meant that, prior to version 8 I had always created the image of one > O/S whilst running from the other one because the imaging software just > wouldn't let me do it any other way. > > So V8 doesn't have this problem, and so I tried creating an image of XP > whilst running XP and everything went ok. However, when I came to > restore said image when I changed my HD it installed but failed to run, > stopping at the XP Welcome screen and, despite even trying a repair > install over the top, eventually I had to restore from one of my > previous backups that was created through the old method. > > So, anyone actually managed to do this without issue using any Version > of True Image? > > -- > Pete Ives > Remove All_stRESS before sending me an email |
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As long as the new HD is at least as large as the original, this should not
be an issue. I've been doing it for years. -Larry "Andrew MacPherson" > wrote in message ddress_disguised... > (Peter) wrote: > >> However, when I came to restore said image when I >> changed my HD > > I find Trueimage is as fallible as the rest if restoring an old setup to > a new hard disk. The "shape" of the HD needs to match the shape of the > old one in order for XP to work properly from the start. You'd think by > now they'd have got round that problem. Still, at least the old backup > can be mounted later on and critical files copied over. > > Andrew McP > |
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> Is there a recommendation for the software to do this? Norton Ghost 10
> and True Image 9.0 seem to the be most frequently mentioned titles. Any > upside/downside to these programs that anyone wants to comment on? Ghost 2003 was the last reliable version of Ghost. The newer ones are just rebadged Powerquest Driveimage which runs in Windows and hence aren't anywhere near as reliable. |
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Oh, man. You mean they took Drive Image 7, which I think is a pathetic
product, and turned it into Ghost ? Yuk! Thank goodness they haven't screwed up the corporate version. -Larry "Steve Simpson" > wrote in message ... >> Is there a recommendation for the software to do this? Norton Ghost 10 >> and True Image 9.0 seem to the be most frequently mentioned titles. Any >> upside/downside to these programs that anyone wants to comment on? > > Ghost 2003 was the last reliable version of Ghost. The newer ones are > just rebadged Powerquest Driveimage which runs in Windows and hence aren't > anywhere near as reliable. > > |
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Steve Simpson wrote:
>> Is there a recommendation for the software to do this? Norton Ghost >> 10 and True Image 9.0 seem to the be most frequently mentioned >> titles. Any upside/downside to these programs that anyone wants to >> comment on? > > Ghost 2003 was the last reliable version of Ghost. The newer ones > are just rebadged Powerquest Driveimage which runs in Windows and > hence aren't anywhere near as reliable. I have not had any issues using Drive Image 7, and I have used it to restore a working image. Perhaps I just got lucky... -- Don Burnette |
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>> Ghost 2003 was the last reliable version of Ghost. The newer ones
>> are just rebadged Powerquest Driveimage which runs in Windows and >> hence aren't anywhere near as reliable. > I have not had any issues using Drive Image 7, and I have used it to > restore a working image. > Perhaps I just got lucky... It's not -unreliable- but it's not bulletproof either. |
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This is getting more difficult. With all these negative experience
stories (and a few good ones, I guess) I don't know what to do. I'm not in a rush, as I will probably hold off until the next official rFactor patch is released and then do the total reinstall, but I don't want to buy any software and then have major problems down the road. I suppose it's like any issue of Windows, it's the latest and greatest, but still contains major flaws that will need to be addressed. I am not super concerned with data backup per se, it's a gaming computer, so important docs, apps and etc. are not a real issue. I want convenience and ease of use along with some semblance of reliability. I simply want to be able to wake up one day and say, "let's roll out a spring fresh copy of my computer" and have it be like the day I first installed everything. I do appeciate all the input and it is making me think a bit more about which to go. |
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Once a month I let TrueImage re-image the machine to it's SecureZone. Of
course I have base and full images stored on the server as well. I can recover from a cat-tastrophe in 20 min. -Larry "Darus" > wrote in message ups.com... > This is getting more difficult. With all these negative experience > stories (and a few good ones, I guess) I don't know what to do. I'm not > in a rush, as I will probably hold off until the next official rFactor > patch is released and then do the total reinstall, but I don't want to > buy any software and then have major problems down the road. I suppose > it's like any issue of Windows, it's the latest and greatest, but still > contains major flaws that will need to be addressed. > > I am not super concerned with data backup per se, it's a gaming > computer, so important docs, apps and etc. are not a real issue. I want > convenience and ease of use along with some semblance of reliability. I > simply want to be able to wake up one day and say, "let's roll out a > spring fresh copy of my computer" and have it be like the day I first > installed everything. > > I do appeciate all the input and it is making me think a bit more about > which to go. > |
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