any way to make acronis true image reliable?

SooTyLaD

SooTyLaD

SooTyLaD

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hi guys,

i have a dilemma... i'm using acronis true image and i WANT to love it, on the surface it is a very slick bit of software that does what you need, but i just can't trust it...

i used to use the boot disc method, which i thought was much better (excellent in fact) and you felt it was safer as it was working from a detached perspective if you know what i mean... however, when i got my new computer it never wanted to play ball with the new motherboard (latest ati version included) so i'm using the windows software...

despite waiting for windows to be completely idle, i cant get a backup to be created that isn't corrupt :( - wont validate, and thinking it was just skipping a beat, just doing a restore really knackered me up as the corruption message appeared during the restore :(

basically, i would like to know if anyone has any suggestions as this software is so perfect if it would only work properly...
 
... just to make it a bit worse...

i FINALLY managed to get into the boot disc version... (this is after getting everything slowly but surely back to how i want it after a fresh windows install :() - made a backup from there, verified it from there, passed...

boot into windows, load up the windows verison, verify again to be sure, flags up as corrupt after about 20 seconds... dont know what to trust :(

any advice on this would be greatly appreciated :)
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
... just to make it a bit worse...

i FINALLY managed to get into the boot disc version... (this is after getting everything slowly but surely back to how i want it after a fresh windows install :() - made a backup from there, verified it from there, passed...

boot into windows, load up the windows verison, verify again to be sure, flags up as corrupt after about 20 seconds... dont know what to trust :(

any advice on this would be greatly appreciated :)
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I've been using Acronis True Image for years, what i do is install ATI in Windows and then create the Acronis Recovery CD, i use only the recovery CD to create, varify and restore images and it has never let me down yet, so, i would say if the image is varified successfully when using the recovery CD then it should also restore successfully.

To be on the safe side, if you have a spare HDD you could try and restore the backup to that to check that it restores successfully or not.
 
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