Acronis True Image help

[philjayj]

I have a copy of Acronis True Image Workstation 9.1 installed on a new PC, i would like to take an image of the hard drive (currently 5GB approx) so that if anything happens, I can reinstall the OS from the image.

However, when I make an image of the hdd, the image size is only a few hundred megs, and also, I don't want to create a recovery partition.

Is there a way were I can just put a CD into the PC, boot it from the CD and re-install the OS as it is on the CD image? If so, how?

Thanks

Phil

 

[philjayj]

I may be missing the point here, and if I am forgive me. But how can a file that Acronis creates, which is no bigger than 60mb, restore a system which takes up 5GB on the system drive?

 

[philjayj]

Success, its worked!

Just one last question, when I recover a system from the image i've created, does it format the drive before installing the image?

Thanks for all your help everyone, very much appreciated.