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Skriven 2010-03-24 23:18:00 av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEAN PARROT
Ärende: Clones and such.
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JP> I do not wish you a dead HD. If your machine does not boot, how are you goi
JP>to copy your files to it, sure, you have them but on another HD that begs to
JP>used but you can not. OK, run the OS again and then you are away. Two time
JP>taking steps, a clone does it all and quick too. I have done multi clones !

JP> EV> I don't know if my TI backup will let me just do a file by file restore
JP> EV> but I am sure if I put the driver(s) for my external drive(s) on the ne
JP> EV> computer and boot from the TI CD I think the TI menu will let me restor
JP> EV> the files from the External drive to the new computer (or new hard
JP> EV> drive).

JP> No !  Not by what I read in the docs to TI. You have to have a bootable
JP>machine running a convenient OS before you can copy files to it. Place a new
JP>in your machine, format it till Kingdom comes and still try to move your fil
JP>to it. Ed, you have to have an OS running for this.

Jean,

Why would Acronis want me to make a CD if it wasn't Bootable???

I admit, I don't know much, but I'd think I could Boot from the TI CD I
made, just using the BIOS in the XP SP3 computer to do it.

My contention is that EITHER a Clone or a series of backup files on an
external hard drive would be Restorable, just using the CD Acronis
suggested for users of their software to make, just in case something
very BAD happened to the computer.

It may be that, after Booting with the Acronis CD, I would have to put a
driver on the hard drive so it could read the external unit, so I could
get my data onto the new, mostly blank, hard drive.

So far, a serious hard drive problem or computer problem hasn't happened
to me.

I can't remember if you have had to Restore data to a computer that
doesn't have an operating system installed, I hope not!

To my understanding, the CD Acronis asked me to make, has a version of
Linux on it so their program has an operating system to rely on, so that
a TI user can use that CD to do a Restore on their new (blank) hard
drive.

Hey, I just remembered something that might shed some light on my
thinking.

Just as Acronis wanted me to make a Bootable CD, so did HP when they
suggested that I Burn a set of CDs or DVDs with the data they put on
their 8GB Restore Partition.

Boot first with the HP Restore set, Partition the HD and Format it,
then stick the Acronis TI critter into the CD drive to do a Restore of
either my backup file set or you clone.

How does that sound?

Am I getting close?

Fire away with them thar Cannons on that F-86, I'm Ready!   ;-)

P.S. Please have a good day, the rest of the day, even after reading
this message.


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