restore acronis to damage disk

I work at the local library, we just DL acronis to test.
And its working great. We just cloned 10 pc with it.
The plan is to have a image on a external hdd or labtop, and the walk around in the library, and boot the damage pc on a usb stick, and the restore the image from a external hdd or laptop.
But is that possible with acronis True image home 11.
And is it possible to have several images on 1 external hdd/ laptop, and in the restore proses, choose between the images.

thx

 

Yes, it's possible to make a usb restore "disk" -- check out mudcrab's post here:

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=176958

It's possible to have more than one backup image on a disk or stick. Instead of "cloning" as described in the ATI user guide, do a partition/disk backup, which backs up the contents of the source disk to a file on the target disk. You can have as many of these backup/image files on a disk as will fit.

 

i did read mudcrab's guide. But i got the idea, that it only worked with a fully operational OS.
I need to but the image on a OS, that is not working.
But maybe i need to read it again.

 

An Image that was made from a working system, when restored to a hard drive, will produce a working system again, all other things being equal.

 

Once the bootable USB Hard Drive is created, you can boot from it just like you can from a CD or Flashdrive. No OS needs to be on the destination (booting) computer.

If you have any specific questions or problems, feel free to ask.

 

THX,
ill read your guide carefully, again..
I shure it's what im looking for.

 

I followed the guide, and i can boot on the usb hdd.
I did at backup of my disk, and put it on the usb hdd partion.
I wantet to do a clonen of my disk, but at one point acronis ask me if i wantet to delete everything on the destination drive. And if i said no to that, it would not let me press, next.
So i ended up doing a backup instead.

Boote up on the usb hdd, get the acrinos interface, all is good.
But what now!!, i go into recovery mode, but i can't see my *.tib file anywhere.
What im i doing wrong?

THX

ps. BTW, i think there is a bug in acronis.
In dos mode, if i close the windows (to close acronis down, hit the X) it will freeze and make a very loud biiiiiiiiiip. Until i pull the plug.

 

ahh it just takes one hell of a long time to show up in the menu.
At least 10 min...
weird!

 

Sometimes it can take a while for TI fill load the folder/file tree, but 10 minutes seems excessive.

When you say "dos mode" are you booting to the Full (Linux-based) or Safe (Dos-based) version of TI?

The loud noise usually means that the computer isn't shutting down properly. This happens with a bad Linux shutdown too.

You may want to consider creating a BartPE or Vista PE CD or submitting a support request to Acronis and seeing if they have a fix for it.

 

im booting on the usb hdd, that i made from your guide. I guess it boots into to a dos mode. You know 16 bit color and so on.
10 min. is not gonna cut it, its more like 20 min.
But it works, when i finally get the whole menu.

 

Come to think of it..
when i made the usb flash, i did not have the usb Hdd pluged in.
It was pluged in, (for the first time) after i made the usb flash.
So maybe the 20 min. + of waiting time is a driver issue.

 

I don't think that should make any difference.

Have you tried just typing the drive and directory into the filename box (like "d:\backups\myvistabackup.tib")? Sometimes TI will find them as you type and you wouldn't have to wait for the tree.

 

Yep that worked, thx alot.