bootable rescue media
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From: Babel17delany on 20 Feb 2005 14:16 Thank you. I looked on the CNET reviews and saw one person had identified this as a problem. Unfortunately, no solution was offered. I then registered with the Wilder Security forum that you provided a link for and I posted my question there. Colin Barnhorst wrote: > I read some of the reviews on CNet.com for Acronis 8 and it is a real mixed > bag concerning the rescue cd. You may want to look at those for hints as to > the problem. I assume you used the Acronis True Image forum at > http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=64 > -- Remove the "Delany" to reply.
From: Babel17delany on 20 Feb 2005 14:32 Outstanding, mrtee! You gave me the answer! The solution was to click "proceed" with the CD-RW bay still open and let Acronis close the bay for me. When the CD spun up the writing began. Thank you very much! ý mrtee ý wrote: > When you put in the blank and press the close button on the writer and it closes, IMMEDIATELY press ok to burn the CD. Do not wait for the CD to spin up. > > That is how I do it and is the procedure that has worked for me since TI 6 and I use the same process for the other Acronis products as well. > -- Remove the "Delany" to reply.
From: » mrtee « on 20 Feb 2005 18:11 You're welcome. -- Just my 2¢ worth, Jeff __________In response to__________ "Babel17delany" <Babel17delany(a)optonline.net> wrote in message news:4218E5BB.3030009(a)optonline.net... | Outstanding, mrtee! | | You gave me the answer! | | The solution was to click "proceed" with the CD-RW bay still open and | let Acronis close the bay for me. When the CD spun up the writing began. | | Thank you very much!
From: David K on 21 Feb 2005 08:12
Babel17delany <Babel17delany(a)optonline.net> wrote: >I recently downloaded Acronis TrueImage8. So did I (actually I bought it outright it as a download from NewEgg for $34). Great price from a great company. >I have been unable to get it to create the bootable rescue media on a >blank CD. I had trouble with that too, until it occurred to me that my brand new dual layer DVD burner might not be doing to well with my two year old 4x CD-R blanks. So, at 3 AM in the morning (retired EE/programmer here, old habits) I went to Wal-Mart to see what was available these days for CD-R media. There was nothing on the shelf below 32x. :) I bought a 50 pack of 48x CD-R media for $18 and headed home, confident that my problem with making a True Image boot CD was now fixed. Well, guess what, ...it was fixed! Now those three remaining blank 4x CD-R disks from my two year old purchase are de facto coasters. :) By the way, if you plan to image your boot hard drive as a backup for your OS, and the drive has more than one partition on it, you should image the entire drive, not just the boot partition. I tried the latter first, followed by a test restore to a new hard drive. That drive would not boot to XP Pro completely. It wouldn't boot to safe mode either. After digging through the Acronis help forum, I found a blurb that said you should backup the entire boot disk, not just the boot partition (the problem has something to do with the master boot record). I then proceeded to do just that, and then tried another test restore. This time, the restored disk booted up just fine, an apparent exact mirror of the imaged disk. At this point then, just a few days after my Acronis True Image purchase, I'm fairly impressed with the software -- it works! Now I plan to buy a USB hard drive to use with True Image for backup. |