Glad it worked for you. Have fun! ;)
You missed the obvious solution - buy a full working version of TI and run the Clone Disk function. You'll have working Dell hidden partitions AND...
No. Cloning automatically sets it up. #8 above tells you that no pre-formatting is necessary.
Acronis' reply was just about 100% correct for what you want to do. Some of the other replies are not quite correct. 1) Remove the PATA drive....
I think your very similar thread is: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=112864 As I posted in the above thread, experienced TI...
You can and cannot do what you want to do. Here are the details: 1) Unless all the Dells are exactly the same - same processor, motherboard,...
You can create an image of his hard drive and restore it to yours but there will be problems. The only way CTL+F11 Dell PC Restore will work on...
There is a better way..... Doing what you outline will result in the new larger drive having the exact same size partition structure as the...
1) Clone the original drive. 2) Shut down completely - do not restart after cloning. 3) Remove the original drive. Set the clone as master (if...
There are several recent threads and dozens of comments on solving this problem in this forum. Do a little thread-hopping and you'll have your...
The direct answer to your original question is that the slow restore is "normal" for TI8 and TI9. Your question about the rescue CD having USB1...
As long as 786 works satisfactorily for you, there is no reason to update to 937.
;D ;D ;D An occasional reality check is a real breath of fresh air. Thanks!
MenorcaMan, you usually have very good advice but this comment seems to be less objective than you are known to be. Maybe it's your frustration in...
Jake, maybe my post in this thread will help a little: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=112864
There has never been any question in my mind as to what TrueImage is backing up whether it be a clone, a partition image or an entire drive image:...
Acronis Support's reply and the FAQ's pretty much say all there is to say about when to use cloning and when to use image creation. The rest of...
Are there any changes to the plugin or is it still v791 unchanged?
They had a few quick updates after 826 and before 937 but nothing of the magnitude of TI9.
I have successfully created XP Pro images with TI8 on non-networked Dell desktop P4's, run Sysprep on them and restored those images to other Dell...
We're talking about the same thing. I guess I should have clarified that a TI sector read error means (to me) the same thing as an OS write error....
I think I understand what you're trying to say but...... 1) If the most reliable test of a drive seems to be (as in the case of Windows XP) the...
I seem to find the same thing....if a drive is really good, TI has no problems reading it. The only time I got a sector read error was when TI8...
Actually, cloning is very handy when moving from a small drive to a new larger drive because you can scale up your partitions during the cloning...
Clone if you just want a standby/drop-in drive in case of failure. Nothing is easier or faster than a drop-in ready clone. But, you have to...
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