True Image Home Backup Options

[heinleinfr]

Hello everybody,
I run Acronis True Image Home on Vista, and i have 1 sata drive in Sata that i would like to backup totally to another one.
However the new destination backup seems to must have the same name (c.
Is it possible to name differently the new drive so i can keep my old drive to boot, and perform backups on the new drive in case off, while keeping both drives active in the system ?

thank you for your help

Heinlein

[shieber]

If you are making a full disk/partition image backup, then the target disk can have any disk label you want to give that is within windows rules for naming. The backup with be a file with the extension tib and obeys the rules of the files system on your pc. You can copy, move, delete it, etc.

If you are making a clone of one disk to another, then the clone will be just like the source -- same data, same disk volume label, etc.

You can't have two such disks in the PC when you boot or, if things go well, windows will mark the clone as not an active system drive and that drive will no longer be bootable. If things don't go well, windows might mark one of the drives as the boot drive and one as the system drive and thereeafter want both present to boot and operate properly. If yo clone a windows sytem drive, always remove one of the drives, either source or target, immediately after cloning and before rebooting.