Acronis True Image

philjayj

philjayj

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Hi. If I have Acronis True Image, can I create an image of my C: drive to a CD and then boot from the CD and reformat my drive and therefore do a fresh install of XP and any programs I may want to keep?

Thanks, Phil.
 
the program takes a snapshot of your hard drive. so it restores it to when you made the image of it. i havent tried it yet but i will. but if theres data there that isnt on the image it will be gone when restored because it wasn't in the snapshot. since im not advanced in this maybe a pro could explain better.
 
It will snapshot the whole drive, including windows.

What I do, is install windows, activate and everything, install all key programs, update and then do an image. Then, should anything go wrong with my system I can get up and running with all my key programs already present leaving me to only install the ones I require on top of it.
 
what i do is install it, then in the program, create the bootable cd that it lets you make -its just a bootable cd with acronis on it

remove the program from the pc, remove all temp files so there's no crap on the drive

then boot off the cd, create a 'acronis secure zone' which is a partition that you choose the size of -i'd say set it as 75% the size of the data on your drive (compression will sort it out) -ie, my small windows install is about 500mb, gets compressed to about 180mb

the acronis secure zone can add a -press F11 to boot into secure zone option, so to restore you dont even need to put the cd in, and you can easily password this section too

brilliant software
 
bledd. said:
what i do is install it, then in the program, create the bootable cd that it lets you make -its just a bootable cd with acronis on it

remove the program from the pc, remove all temp files so there's no crap on the drive

then boot off the cd, create a 'acronis secure zone' which is a partition that you choose the size of -i'd say set it as 75% the size of the data on your drive (compression will sort it out) -ie, my small windows install is about 500mb, gets compressed to about 180mb

the acronis secure zone can add a -press F11 to boot into secure zone option, so to restore you dont even need to put the cd in, and you can easily password this section too

brilliant software
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what he said
 
So if I create a bootable image using True Image, is this just the same as using nLite to create an unattended windows install?
 
to expand. No, it would create a snapshot of your current system setup. you wont need to do the windows setup again, it will just restore the files as they were when you took the image.
 
an nlite install is an xp disc that can be installed on any pc, it just simplifies and speeds up the xp installation

acronis makes an image or 'snapshot' of your system and stores it in one file, basically a whole system backup -but only works for that machine.

totally different software :)

both awesome
 
Bledd

That makes total sense now :)

So if every so often, I wanted to format my laptop and just have XP Pro, Office and some other programs installed, could True Image do this?

Thanks, Phil
 
RLBUHT said:
Bledd

That makes total sense now :)

So if every so often, I wanted to format my laptop and just have XP Pro, Office and some other programs installed, could True Image do this?

Thanks, Phil
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If that's all that you have installed when the image is created, yes.
 
yeah, basically you install xp, all your programs you want, and updates etc..

get your email setup..


then use acronis to make a backup, in 6 months time or whatever, you restore the backup -all files will be reverted to how they were before

-so make copies of favourites, emails, desktop, my documents, and all other files etc..
 
Everyone, thanks for all your replies, you've really cleared a lot up.

And will the above approach reformat the drive or just re-install XP Pro over the previous installation?
 
it doesn't actually 're install' think of it as making a massive file that it just copies over the current partition

so it formats it first, then deploys the image..
 
bledd. said:
it doesn't actually 're install' think of it as making a massive file that it just copies over the current partition

so it formats it first, then deploys the image..
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but its quicker ;)
 
v10 has some useful things added to it. I'm probably going to upgrade my v9 whilst I still have the 40% off upgrade offer. Outlook backup certainly interests me.
 
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