Acronis True Image Home 10 - 2 Questions

bluetech · 20 Jul 2007 at 17:50

How does this program take an "image" of the OS if it is not OS indipendent without all off the expected problems you could run into?

Is it possible to create and restore backups independent of the OS?

Thanks for reading, any replies are greatly appreciated!

bledd · 20 Jul 2007 at 18:45

what do you mean?

you can run this program from within windows or from the acronis bootcd

i use the latter, saves installing the program

bluetech · 20 Jul 2007 at 22:13

bledd. said:
you can run this program from within windows or from the acronis bootcd

So if I were to just use the boot CD. It would allow me to create a system image?

fini · 20 Jul 2007 at 22:15

Yes, although if you install it you can schedule automated system images.

bluetech · 21 Jul 2007 at 22:00

fini said:
Yes, although if you install it you can schedule automated system images.

How does the program make the image successfully withing the OS. Such as the windows system files, surley there would be problems trying to access these to image the system?

Ol!ver · 22 Jul 2007 at 10:23

bluetech said:
How does the program make the image successfully withing the OS. Such as the windows system files, surley there would be problems trying to access these to image the system?

Nope, works fine. It's not changing anything so must be allowed access.

bledd · 22 Jul 2007 at 11:25

i've made images that have worked perfectly fine even when i've been playing red alert 2 on the pc, never had a failed image (from about 100)

bluetech · 26 Jul 2007 at 22:57

Thanks for the replies guys, this answers my questions!