Might be base-10 vs base-2 values. Drive manufacturers want their drives to look bigger so they state drive sizes in decimal values (base-10)....
I got caught on that at first too. It may now show up at the bottom of the list but try clicking on "My Computer" in the middle of the list. My...
I missed that point in your original post. My bad.... :'( Thanks, Skyhawk
To add to Menorcaman's post, There are two ways to back up a hard drive using TrueImage (TI). One is the "clone" procedure which makes a spare...
Jim, According to Acronis tech support, it should be possible to restore an image to a smaller partition. See this thread:...
Hi Menorcaman, Yes. I wanted to be absolutely sure that TI8 will restore properly in event of a hard drive failure so I bought 2 spare hard...
That is good to hear. I wasn't looking forward to doing the entire backup for both PCs again. Thanks for the helpful advice, Skyhawk
Understand now. Thanks! Skyhawk
Well that makes a lot of sense. Couldn't see the forest for the trees... 8) I currently have all of the drives from two different PCs backed up...
I would like to have further understanding of the secure zone as well. I used to think it was to prevent virus' from infecting files in images....
Acronis has confirmed that it is not possible to modify any file in the image. Sorry for thinking that it might work. That being the case, how...
What do you mean by "first breaks that partition and then makes it again"? I've never heard that terminology before. Thanks, Skyhawk
Thanks for the confirmation Andrew. Skyhawk
If you can state what kind of drive (IDE or SATA) and where it is installed (IDE primary master, etc.) it would help others to analyze your...
My .tib files are on an external firewire hard drive. Hope someone who's renamed complete and incremental backups, and restored all without...
Bump. Thanks for any help.
Hi John, I have two PCs. - One is for video editing only and is a triple boot WinXP Pro system. Have Premiere Pro in boot-1, Premiere 6.5 in...
Thanks for the tip. Disabling everything in msconfig start up tab except what is essential for my video editing software, plus disabling certain...
q1aqza and Ed Y, Thanks for your responses. You both mention no problems creating backups with no mention of successful restores after a defrag....
Menorcaman, If you are running realtime video editing with multiple streams of audio and video with realtime effects, filters, slomo, etc., then...
I thought the download said TI8, build 774 but I just checked the about and it says TI8, build 764. Skyhawk
rwinegar, Why not uncheck all acronis links in msconfig and run that way. Then check the links, reboot, do manual backup, then uncheck the...
Yes. It will even work for multi-boot systems on one drive. I use the imaging method as that allows me to backup all my drives to one external...
If I rename full and associated incremental backups, will TI8 still be able to restore them properly? I realize that I would need to keep the...
Yes, I would like to know the answers to these questions as well. Thanks, Skyhawk
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