Will rescue CD from TI9 trial restore TI8 image

[Skyhawk]

BACKGROUND:
Dell Dimension E510, two SATA hard drives, no IDE hard drives.

TI8-774 happily created a full backup of the SATA-1 drive to the Acronis secure zone on SATA-2 drive.

But the rescue CD gave the E000101F4: no hard drives message when a restore function was inititated. Updated to TI8-937 and the problem got worse. Now the rescue CD created by ver 937 hangs in the graphical interface. Cannot even initiate a restore function. Totally hung so have to power the PC off and on to reboot. Installed the snap driver but no change.

QUESTIONS:
Reading threads on this forum, I saw a couple of posts from Acronis telling the user to try creating a rescue CD from the trial version of TI-9 and seeing if that works.

1. Is a rescue CD that is created using the TI9 trial version compatible in restoring backup images created using TI8-937?

2. If it works, will it continue to work forever or is there a trial version timeout for the rescue CD.

Thanks for your help,
Skyhawk

[Allen L.]

From what I've read, the rescue CD's are backward compatable. So it should work. A rescue disk from version 8 will *not* work to restore images for later versions of a new series... example: a v.8 rescue CD will not restore a version 9 image.

Allen

[Skyhawk]

-{ Quote: "From what I've read, the rescue CD's are backward compatable. So it should work. A rescue disk from version 8 will *not* work to restore images for later versions of a new series... example: a v.8 rescue CD will not restore a version 9 image.

Allen" }-
Thanks Allen.
Now I need to find out if a Trial version TI9 rescue CD will work forever or timeout. Anyone know?
Skyhawk

[Skyhawk]

-{ Quote: "Thanks Allen.
Now I need to find out if a Trial version TI9 rescue CD will work forever or timeout. Anyone know?
Skyhawk" }-
Found the answer to this question in this thread:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=141028&highlight=rescue

Menorcaman said:
Best advice I can give is that you download/install the free trial version of TI 9.0 Home and give it a test run. When running the trial version from within Windows it's fully functional but has a 15 day time limit. The Linux based bootable rescue disk that you will need to create has no time limit but can't be used to create a backup, it can only restore it.

Thanks Menorcaman,
Skyhawk