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Comment from Steven Karsh on 2009-12-07

2009-12-08T02:05:55Z

Hi Leo:

Thanks for your answer to my previous question. Now I have another:

At the end of your video "Restoring An Image..." you mentioned that 10% of the time, there might be issues that complicate restoring an image - what are they?

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Comment from Steven Karsh on 2009-11-30

2009-12-01T01:54:41Z

Hi Leo:

How would Acronis work to restore an image of a netbook, if you had to replace the hard drive? It has no CD drive. Could you boot from a USB flash drive or external hard drive? Maybe have virtual CD on an external drive to run the image iso?

Personally I have a USB CD-ROM that can be booted from. Since not all applications support the no-CD scenario, it's nice to have it availble. That beign said, I believe that you can create a bootable recovery flash drive with Acronis.

01-Dec-2009

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Comment from Mark B on 2009-10-31

2009-10-31T18:37:32Z

I may have found the answer -- when I want to re-create the XP installation, I can boot TI from the CD and use the TI utilities to "add a new disk," -- i.e., the hard drive, then partitioning the hard drive as NTFS, then just restoring the xp disk .tib backup to the hard drive, right?

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Comment from Mark B on 2009-10-31

2009-10-31T17:38:34Z

Leo -- Great site, thanks!

I want to buy a cheap machine with XP on it, use Acronis TI to save the original image of the hard drive on external media, then format the hard drive for DOS (wiping out XP) and use an old dos program (don't ask why!). If at some later time I want to restore the original XP onto the machine (wiping out dos), will the TI bootable media reformat the drive for XP so the restore is easy? If not, and if I don't have XP CDs to format the drive, how do I prepare the drive for the TI restore? Thanks very much --

PS -- Although it might be easier to just create a DOS partition, I don't think I want a dual-boot system since I want the machine to boot only into dos without a boot menu (unless I can do that with a dual-boot system -- then I guess it would be better to use a partitioning program to do that.)

As long as you create the Acronis Bootable Media to boot from, when you restore an image you're restoring everything - the boot sector, the OS, the applications, the data - as of the time you took the image. No additional XP CD required.

01-Nov-2009

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Comment from John Morse on 2009-09-30

2009-09-30T19:52:41Z

Hi, There seems to be a problem with the mp4 download. I have tried downloading it twice. Both Quicktime and Real cannot open the file. Any suggestions??

VLC player can play it. Or download the WMV. Or watch it on YouTube. Lots of options!

01-Oct-2009

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Comment from Dennis Ganann on 2009-09-29

2009-09-29T22:30:21Z

Hi Leo
When you do a restore, does it automatically format the new hard drive? Or does a new hard drive need to be formatted before you do this with your Windows XP disc?
Thanks,
Dennis

It really depends on the state that the replacement hard drive is in, but most of the time they're pre-formatted, or already formatted from prior use. Restoring the image overwrites any previous data as needed.

30-Sep-2009

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Comment from Pat Jones on 2009-09-29

2009-09-29T14:49:49Z

Leo, I will be upgrading to Windows 7 probably using a 64-bit machine in the near future. I notice that Acronis is already advertising Acronis 2010. The questions are: (1) will older versions such as Acronis, versions 2009, 11, 10 and 9 work with Windows 7; and (2) will the same older versions of Acronis still work with a 64-bit machine?

I think Acronis is only claiming Windows 7 support with the latest version, but for the record the videos I created were all Windows 7, running Acronis TrueImage Home 2009. Their knowledgebase seems to indicate that 64bit should just work.

30-Sep-2009

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Comment from JohnSS on 2009-09-29

2009-09-29T14:34:14Z

My Programe "Acronis 10 Home".I did a full backup of active Drive "C". Stored on diferent partition of same Hard Drive When I came to restore it. I got a message -Need to reboot M/C I did, m/c restarted about 3rd step ,\stopped and hung would go no further. repeated the restore several times same results. I have had this program about 2 years and used it several times with no problem. Now this happens. ???
What am I doing wrong. Please help if possible

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