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Resolved clone sft

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by gghartman, 2011/02/09.

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    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    okay this is what i want and maybe it doesnt exist.

    i want to make a backup image of my main machine everything on my main drive and back it up to a dvd but it has to be a bootable image. so if some thing happens to the drive i can put the dvd in and it reimages the new drive.

    have tried norton ghost but the darn thing keeps failing on the second dvd keeps telling me its not writable or its not formatted no matter how many dvd's i try and they are brand new.

    have tried acronis true image but it will only create that image to another hard drive it wont give me that option to use a dvd.

    does this sft exist ???
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    If the drive dies you'll be buying a new one.... I'd send the image to another drive.. Pop dead drive one - pop new one in - Boom all done.
     
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    PeteC

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    Acronis True Image Home 2011 will image a drive to DVD, etc ......
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    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    pete c

    i have acronis 2010 and i dont have that option. ive gone thru it and i cant find it. so i need the 2011 ???

    steve - i see what your saying and it makes sense but if i cant get a bootable recovery function id like that option as well.
     
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    PeteC

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    I'm a little puzzled - I don't have a copy of 2010 installed anywhere, but 2009 is installed on my reference XP desktop and the ability to image to DVD seems to be available .....

    Screenshots from 2009 & 2011 below

    I suggest you search the 2010 help file for DVD.
     

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    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    ill take a closer look i didnt see the option to browse but will look again.

    thanks.
     
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    TonyT

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    With Ghost, don't clone the drive, use the option "Partition to Image ".
     
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    gghartman

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    ill look at the partition to image. thanks.
     
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