Acronis Trueimage Question

TheMozart,

I think that is a terrible compromise. You have lost one of the most useful aspects of imaging. Hot imaging. If your were concerned about having your computer out of action for one minute while you fixed the drive letters, it's now out of action for one hour while you wait for the cold image to complete.

I think I know why TI reverses your drive letters.

 

Well tell me why you think Ti reverses?

And what do you mean out of action for one hour? What's out of action for one hour? What takes one hour to complete? What's a cold image?

It only takes 22 minutes to create an image using the WinPE boot CD. Same amount of time it takes creating image from within Vista.

Thank you.

 

i think he means while you wait for the image to finish from the boot disk instead of from within windows.

 

It's the same time to create an image from VistaPE boot CD than it is from creating the image in Windows using ATI program. The only time I lose is booting the CD which I admit is kind of a pain.

But I am interested to see what he thinks the solution is when creating image from windows, as that would be very helpful.

 

I need the requested information to be sure.

By out of action I meant you can't use your computer during a cold image. During a hot image I continue to browse the web, email, Skype, etc.

 

Ah I understand. But that's OK Brian, I just create an image for 20 minutes when I am watching TV or doing something else.

Thanks for all your help and effort, but I cannot be bothered anymore trying to restore images created from within windows. I will just boot the CD and create the image that way. No big deal.

But yeah, I wish I knew what was causing it. Without the needed information, what did you suspect it was and what solution did you suspect?

 

All it needs is for you to create a 22 minute hot image, restore it and supply the screenshots.

 

Ok for you Brian I will do it Because you have tried your best to help me and I want to reciprocate, and besides, it will help me to know as well.

So I will do it now and return and post results asap.

So you need a registry screen shot and disk management screen shot AFTER i restored the messed up image? Is that right?

 

Thanks. That's correct. Take the Disk Management screenshot before you change the drive letters back to your preference.

 

OK thank you. I will be back in around 45 mins to report.

 

Im back.

But I cannot believe this. I restored the image I backed up in windows, but now it didn't try installing any device drivers and it didn't change D: and F: around. And it didn't ask me to restart windows.

I have NO IDEA why it didn't do it, it's been doing it for years, and all of a sudden it's fixed itself for some reason.

What could have caused it to fix itself up?

I haven't changed anything that I know about.

 

I sent some vibes to your computer.

Seriously, that is strange. Could you repeat the test when you have time?

 

Very strange indeed. And I double checked that I restored the exact same image that I created in Windows. In fact, it's the only image I got atm on my hard drive.

Very weird.

Something has changed on my laptop obviously. Any ideas what?

 

Who knows, it may or may not work next time.

 

I just realised one difference, not sure if it's related or not. But when I installed ATI on windows just today, because as you know I had uninstalled it, I selected "typical" install. But when I first installed ATI years ago, I recall that I had selected "complete" install.

Do you think that could be related? Maybe the "typical" install didn't install something that a "complete" install does that interferes with something?

And another difference was that I didn't use a password to password the image, where as before I always did.

You think it can be related?

 

I don't know.

 

may i know which version of acronis?
do you use recovery cd?

 

I am using 11, build 8101.

Yes I created an VistaPE recovery CD with the free Acronis BartPE plugin.

And when I use the VistaPE Cd to create and restore an image it works perfect.

But I was having problems with images created from within Vista as Vista was running, but I think it sorted itself out some how. Very confusing.