 rfharThe World Sport, Played In Every CountryPremium
join:2001-03-26
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Re: [Free] Acronis True Image 7 for FREE said by lilhurricane:If you've registered at the Acronis site..go to: My Account Registered Products Download it  Thanks, I finally got it. |
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Indy SabreSabre Rider From Indianapolis
join:2003-10-02
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Got it installed and working on an older XP laptop, thanks again for sharing this. So far seems nicer and easier than Ghost 2003 which is what i have used up until now.
So do most of you guys image from within windows or do you use the boot CD?
Also is it necessary to let the 3 items that TI 7 adds to start up be started each time you boot? Edit: found the answer here if anyone else wonders - »www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/···407.html
They only take up 3.3MB so I will leave them all running. |
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 KeizerI'M Your HuckleberryPremium,MVM
join:2003-01-20 | said by Indy Sabre:So do most of you guys image from within windows or do you use the boot CD? Also is it necessary to let the 2 items that it added to start up to be allowed to run? I always image from within windows, and have never had any issues. It's also a faster way to create an image.
I also allow the startups! |
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Thanks for passing this along, I have been wanting to try this out compared to Ghost 2003. |
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said by Indy Sabre :
So do most of you guys image from within windows or do you use the boot CD?
Also is it necessary to let the 2 items that it added to start up to be allowed to run?
I always image from within windows, and have never had any issues. It's also a faster way to create an image.
I also allow the startups!
I also backup in windows. But I restore using the Boot CD. |
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Free Link Still works at time of posting... |
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Re: [Free] Acronis True Image 7 for FREE I just got TI7, it's still available. Thanks.... |
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Thank you purelander! I'll give it a try when I have a little more time. Have been using BING for awhile now which has worked good for me. But since this is free I'll try it and see how it compares.  |
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LibraPremium
join:2003-08-06
USA
kudos:1 | reply to purelander
Thank you purelander.
I have a few questions. If I buy an external hard drive, does it matter which type? If I attempt this, can I just plug in the external hard drive and use ATI (no formatting the hard drive)? And turn disconnect the drive when I'm done?
Also, I have a Dell with a SATA drive. I know there's the C drive and two or three other items. I think they can all be imaged together - is this correct? And, I was reading the Users' Guide, and I saw a lot about partitioning. Do you HAVE to do that, or is that only necessary when you are restoring an image on a new drive? If not, that's very confusing to me because from reading I get that the drive with the OS has to be made primary and active, but I have no idea of what I would have to make anything else copied.
I'm not ready to do this, but I would appreciate any advice about all of these items.
Thank you.
Sincerely, Libra |
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KeizerI'M Your HuckleberryPremium,MVM
join:2003-01-20 | said by Libra:Thank you purelander. I have a few questions. If I buy an external hard drive, does it matter which type? If I attempt this, can I just plug in the external hard drive and use ATI (no formatting the hard drive)? And turn disconnect the drive when I'm done? Also, I have a Dell with a SATA drive. I know there's the C drive and two or three other items. I think they can all be imaged together - is this correct? And, I was reading the Users' Guide, and I saw a lot about partitioning. Do you HAVE to do that, or is that only necessary when you are restoring an image on a new drive? If not, that's very confusing to me because from reading I get that the drive with the OS has to be made primary and active, but I have no idea of what I would have to make anything else copied. I'm not ready to do this, but I would appreciate any advice about all of these items. Thank you. Sincerely, Libra Although TI can be a bit fickle with certain types of hardware, I have never had any issues imaging family, and friends PC's, all with different hardware specs. I don't see a problem buying whatever external drive you want to. Yes you will want to format the external drive, so your OS will pick it up, and so it will be usable.
I know that alot of store bought PCS, have at least two partitions. One with the OS, and another with rescue data in case you goof up! TI will image a partition on your hard drive, or will image the entire drive. |
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Indy SabreSabre Rider From Indianapolis
join:2003-10-02 | reply to Libra
said by Libra:Thank you purelander. I have a few questions. If I buy an external hard drive, does it matter which type? If I attempt this, can I just plug in the external hard drive and use ATI (no formatting the hard drive)? And turn disconnect the drive when I'm done? Also, I have a Dell with a SATA drive. I know there's the C drive and two or three other items. I think they can all be imaged together - is this correct? And, I was reading the Users' Guide, and I saw a lot about partitioning. Do you HAVE to do that, or is that only necessary when you are restoring an image on a new drive? If not, that's very confusing to me because from reading I get that the drive with the OS has to be made primary and active, but I have no idea of what I would have to make anything else copied. I'm not ready to do this, but I would appreciate any advice about all of these items. Thank you. Sincerely, Libra Hi Libra,
I have just used TI 7 on my Dell with Sata HD without any problems.
When I image my Dell, I image the entire Disk 1 so that i can restore to a new HD in the dell if the dell HD dies. I only do this once (full disk 1 image) and then image just C: in my newer images.
That way if you get a new drive you can restore an image just as dell had it with your disk 1 image. Then if needed, you restore your newer C: image on top of it to just the C: partition.
Also, External hard drives bought as a package come formatted as 1 FAT32 partition. You don't really need to format the dirve since it is already formatted. I leave mine FAT32 becasue it will work with Ghost 2003. TI will work with FAT32 or NTFS where as Ghost will only work with FAT32. |
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Thanks  . |
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LibraPremium
join:2003-08-06
USA
kudos:1 | reply to Indy Sabre
Hi Indy,
Thanks for all that information. Just to be sure, does your Dell need the RAID/AHCI drivers on a floppy in case you would have to use the XP disk to reinstall Windows?
Sincerely, Libra |
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 juilinsandarTexas GoonerPremium
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I've just started runing TI 7 on an older PC with a 2.4ghz Celeron & IDE drive and it states that it's gonna take about 20 hours to do a full image for the 1st backup to an external Firewire HD. For comparison sake, my newer PC with a 3.2 GHZ HT processor & SATA drive took only about 4 hours backing up to a USB 2.0 external HD. Both HD's being imaged are about the same size, around 120gbs. Does this seem normal?
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Indy SabreSabre Rider From Indianapolis
join:2003-10-02 | reply to Libra
said by Libra:Hi Indy, Thanks for all that information. Just to be sure, does your Dell need the RAID/AHCI drivers on a floppy in case you would have to use the XP disk to reinstall Windows? Sincerely, Libra I don't know  , I have never reloaded windows from an XP install disk to my D8300. My plan is, if needed, is to restore one of my images from a Ghost 2003 ot TI 7 boot CD. |
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LibraPremium
join:2003-08-06
USA
kudos:1 | Hi Indy,
I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I remember reading about a lot of problems with ATI and the SATA/AHCI drivers where ATI can't find the harddrive. I just did a search at Wilders and it seems that problem still exists. In case your curious, here's my search page with quite a few posts about the harddrive not being found:
»www.wilderssecurity.com/search.p···=1223814
There are some workarounds using BartPE, etc. These are probably for the newer versions of ATI, but I wouldn't be able to create a BartPE or understand whatever else is required.
I'm going to pass on this for now, but I appreciate all of your information.
Sincerely, Libra |
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Thanks for the post.
Got it.
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Grand Rapids, MI | reply to juilinsandar
Sure hope not.I dl it but have yet to try it out.Been using ghost for years and it does a 80gig to usb external in less than an hour - internal in about 30 minutes.
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 BIGbadjohnJFK, Thank-you SirPremium
join:2003-03-05
Ireland | reply to purelander
Thanks to purelander and everyone else along the way who made it possible to aquire this fantastic piece of software. It took a while to get it but get it I did. |
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