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Comment from Pedro van Marissing on 2010-11-26

2010-11-26T14:23:58Z

Acronis does not restore most of the licensed programs. I still have to reinstall them. What is the reason? Are they not supposed to run once more without a new installation?
Thank you very much!

If you restore a full disk image, TrueImage should restore everything - Windows, installed programs, data - everything. Has for me every time I've used it.

27-Nov-2010

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Comment from Mark on 2010-11-14

2010-11-14T18:01:37Z

To Seekandfind,

If you have only personal version of Acronis True Image support team will not probably resolve the issue as you need Acronis bootable disc with the latest Linux drivers. This boot CD can be provided only for full versions of Acronis True Image. As a workaround you may upgrade Personal version to ATIH 2011.

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Mark
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Comment from Seekandfind on 2010-09-12

2010-09-12T16:01:13Z

I am STUCK at the exact same point where I have the .tib files but Acrnois cannot see the C drive. The bootable media worked just last week for me. Then I lost whole disk and now it won't recognize my internal hard drive C, but sees the external. I made the .tibs with a free version of Acronis. I contacted Acronis support, Acronis Forum, many web sites for help, only can find a torrent and have no idea what is in it. How can I get this bootable media that "SEES"? My acronis version is a free version that was given out with the serial called Acronis True Image Persoanl version 10.
--so frustrated, and thanks for help

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Comment from John Adamson on 2010-08-10

2010-08-10T21:00:41Z

Leo .. Very helpful video.

Concerning your "take away" response to a question regarding the problem 10%, you suggest making sure the Acronis boot disk to make sure it boots and recognizes your external drive.

Mine does indeed boot, but it recognizes the external as Drive C, and can't seem to find the new internal that I want to restore to.

Any suggestions? Should I format the new HD off my system disk?

I'd contact Acronis support - they may be able to help (occasionally they provide a different recovery boot disk image that "sees" more. No idea why it's not part of the product.)

14-Aug-2010

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Comment from ian murray on 2010-06-08

2010-06-08T17:17:27Z

[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?]Hi Leo,I would like to know the answer too please.Do you have another video? Thanks Ian

Two classes of issues: you'll notice I avoid "one click backup", and the "secure zone" offered by the product. Restoring more traditional full and incremental backups as I've shown here is typically solid.

Second, occasionally the boot media that comes with, or that you create, with Acronis won't work, or won't recognize the external drive. Acronis has supplied an alternate boot media for me (without knowing that I do this web site). Each time that resolved the issue. Take away: test the boot media you create to make sure it boots, and that it recognizes your external drive.

09-Jun-2010

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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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